WHOOMPH!

For Grover Stephens, one of the country's foremost amateur riders, the Maryland Hunt Cup has lately been hexed. This four-mile course over timber, one of the toughest, has thrown him three times—the last time right in front of the camera of spectator M. Lucy Eddins. This year (April 27) Stephens will see if his jinx ended with the series of three.

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