Smith seizes the moment
May 06, 2021
4 minutes
By LUCY ELDER
Edited by Catherine Austen
catherine.austen@futurenet.com
Fox Grant Silver Spur, Barnetts Barn Farm, Warks
BECKY SMITH capped her stellar first season of hunt races with a win on her consistent campaigner Important Moment in a thrilling finish to the fifth running of the Silver Spur.
The pair were chased home by Mark Heuff and Thegreendalerocket (Rocky), hungry for back-to-back hunt race victories following their Quorn win (report, 29 April).
Mark and Becky cemented their lead in the race’s latter stages, jumping upsides each other three out and rising in tandem again at the second-last. But Becky had the fresher horse and
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