$100,000 purse. 20 horses nominated, 13 entered, 11 headed to the paddock, 10 started…and only two finished in what was a grueling duel for the wire, with Gerry L. Brewster’s Derwins Prospector edging out Bruton Street-US’s Drift Society to capture the 121st Maryland Hunt Cup; trained by Joe Davies, ridden by Gozangue Cottreau; photo by Isabel Kurek.

You can more in The Baltimore Sun and on the National Steeplechase Association, but if you want to feel like you were there, the best of all articles to read is our friend and colleague Joe Clancy’s spectacular retelling in this week’s thisishorseracing.com, complete with fun facts and stats on the Brewster family’s multi-generational relationship with the Hunt Cup, and with a nod to other Hunt Cups in which there were only two to finish.

Click here to WATCH the official video of the 2017 Maryland Hunt Cup, produced by Hunt Cup Productions for the National Steeplechase Association.