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Warner fondly remembers those neighborly rivalries, including the case of champagne he won in a bet with his then father-in-law Paul Mellon when his Annual Meeting beat Mellon's Chapel Street.
Annual Meeting was “an old raw-boned rascal from the backwoods of Virginia," Warner recalled. “He cost very little — about $1,500 I think; but the thing that wins the Gold Cup is heart, and Annual Meeting had heart."
The horse won two Gold Cup races for Warner and then, seemingly on his way to a third victory in 1974, pulled up lame after the final fence The winner of that race was Paul Mellon's small gelding Mongogo. It was Mr. Mellon's first Gold Cup success in almost four decades of trying
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