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Charlie Marshall overcame tricky conditions to win Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Hunt Cup timber race on a horse who had fallen in the race for the past two years.
It was Dorset-based Marshall’s second victory in the famous American contest, having won it on the Joe Davies-trained Blackhall in 2023, and he teamed up with the same trainer to ride the latest winner, 13-year-old Mr Fine Threads (red, yellow colours above), who 12 months ago fell when ridden by Will Biddick. To cap off a memorable weekend Marshall caught a flight to Heathrow, then dashed to Stafford Cross in Devon where he rode a point-to-point winner.
Asked if he had managed to catch any transatlantic sleep he said: “About an hour and a half. Every time you’re about to drop off they wake you up to ask if you want any of their rubbish food. However, I’ve had plenty of practice going without sleep in the past couple of weeks since the baby was born.”
Marshall and his wife Hannah, who recently became parents for the first time, train point-to-pointers and he also runs a business manufacturing flexible schooling fences, but today it was a more mundane job that required his attention. Recalling his latest Maryland victory – while cleaning out lambing sheds – he said: “Rain was expected the night before, but didn’t come, and then ten minutes before they called the jockeys out it started to pour. The rain didn’t have time to soak in so the ground became firm and slippery.”
Charlie Marshall eyes up the trophies ahead of his Maryland Hunt Cup ride on Mr Fine Threads
Asked if that meant the race was run at a steady pace – over upright timber obstacles which require a very different jumping technique to steeplechasing – Marshall said: “The horses are so sure-footed that if you start messing with their stride they will slip. It’s better to let them get on with it. I have unbelievable respect for them. They are like show jumpers, in that they get in tight to the fences and jump them. It feels like they are almost dislocating their back.
“I took up the running at the 18th of the 24 fences, jumped the 20th fence badly and while I was sitting on his ears they caught up with me, but I kicked between the last two, he winged the final fence and won by six lengths.” Nine ran, seven finished.
Marshall left the racecourse within an hour, caught a 9.30pm flight to Heathrow, landed at 9.50am the following morning and was picked up by his mum, Charlotte, who did the driving to Stafford Cross. They arrived seven minutes before declarations for his first ride, which resulted in a victory on the Mike Felton-trained Follow My Order.
