Trainer Doug Fout finally sees his work pay off.

Paddy Young and Magalen Bryant’s Erin Go Bragh had their work cut out for them in the $35,000 National Sporting Library Chronicle Cup timber stakes at the Virginia Fall Races.

They were up against the National Steeplechase Association’s leading timber horse, Irv Naylor’s Patriot’s Path (Xavier Aizpuru), and timber champion Seeyouattheevent (William Dowling) in Middleburg, Va., Oct. 3-4. But the firm going left more questions than answers for the entire field.