UNIONVILLE, Pa.--Uco Valley (Ire), trained by Leslie Young, won the $50,000, 4 mile Pennsylvania Hunt Cup on Sunday Nov. 1.

Uco Valley leads early (Photo by Tod Marks)Owned by The Potter Group, Gaskells Waste Services and Ashwell Stables and ridden by Freddie Procter, Uco Valley won over Master Seville, trained by Mark Beecher, and Withoutmoreado, trained by Kathy Neilson.

"I'm delighted," said Young. "He won at Cheshire and My Lady's Manor earlier this year, then he got t-boned in the Grand National. He was third in Middleburg and at the Gold Cup. He's been a great horse for us."

"I bought him at the Tattersall sale for $46,000," said Young. "He'd been third to another horse that I bought that day. He was really skinny, but I liked him, so I thought if he didn't go for too much I'd buy him."

"He's an angel," said Young. "He's very easy to train, very straight forward. It's great he won a big one. He deserves it."

 

"FOR ME, that was the one big timber race bar the Maryland Hunt Cup that we hadn't won," she said. "So now it's just the Maryland Hunt Cup we have to win."

Uco Vally ridden by Freddie Procter (Photo by Nick Di Bernardo"The Pennsylvania Hunt Cup is where I won my first pony race in 1983 or 1984," said Young. "It was great to win one on my home town."

"Uco Valley wil lhave a nice little break now," said Young. "Freddie rode a perfect race, leading all the way but giving him little breaks to catch his breath."

Beecher saddled Happenstance's Hero's Return, ridden by Brett Owings, to win the $25,000, 3 mile Arthur o Choate Allowance Timber by 3 1/2 lengths over Old Style Humor (Ire), also trained by Beecher, and Lightning Ridge, trained by Neilson.

Ricky Hendriks saddled Leamington Racing''s Grahamzilla, ridden by Elizabeth Scully, to win the Apprentice Rider Training Flat for the second year in a row, with Northern Saint, trained by Beecher, running second and Bermuda High, trained by Young, third.

Tod Wyatt saddled Andre Russo's Day and Age, ridden by James Wyatt, to win division 2 of the Training Flat by 5 1/4 lengths over Lucky Prince, trained by Joe Davies, and Princess Clemmie, trained by Lillith Boucher.