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Article: Gogong Beats Top-Weighted Flatterer
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 19, 1987
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Four-time steeplechase champion Flatterer found the mud and the
weight to be too much at the Middleburg steeplechase races today,
losing by 10 lengths to Gogong.
With a 178-pound handicap, the most weight he ever has carried,
Flatterer faltered to third. "Every horse has his breaking point and
he just had a lot of weight," trainer Jonathan Sheppard said of
Flatterer.
Gregg Morris rode the winner, who led the 2 1/2-mile, $25,000
race from start to finish.
"He's a big galloping horse and he likes the mud," Morris said of
Gogong. "Plus, he was getting 28 pounds from the horse to beat, so it
really worked out well."
Six horses started, but only three finished in ...