PRIMA FACIE WINS VA-BRED RACE AT MIDDLEBURG

PRIMA FACIE wins the James P. Mills at Virginia Fall Races. (Douglas Lees Photo)

James H. Falk, Sr.’s Prima Facie won the $4,000 James P. Mills Memorial for Virginia-bred/sired horses on Sunday, October 6 at the Middleburg Fall Races at Glenwood Park.  Jeff Murphy rode the winner for trainer Simon Hobson.

Prima Facie is a homebred by Fantasticat, out of Parisiana by Mutakddim.  He took control of the race at the start and was never seriously challenged. The winning margin was 2 ¼ lengths.

COMPLETE RESULTS:

FIRST: Prima Facie (James H. Falk, Sr., Simon Hobson, Jeff Murphy) $2,000; SECOND: Searubyrun (Rebecca Shepherd, Lilith Boucher, Richard Boucher) $1,200; THIRD: Rhetoricalquestion (Noble Stables, Neil Morris, Bernard Dalton) $800; FOURTH – DNF – OC: Tudor Prince (Justine Hughes, George Wood, Stacia Elliot)