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near Washington, Virginia, called...well, it was always known as Greenway farm... called Blue Rock. They named it after a stallion they had, Blue Rocket.”
“THEY HELD those races there for about three years. I patroled there, for their races, and I also ran some horses. But I didn’t ride; had someone else ride for me.
“Then we changed from there down to Thornton Hill, Jim Bill Fletcher’s farm, which, when we first saw it, we thought it would be a terrible, a tremendous, terrible course, because of the terrain. But all the riders who have ever ridden in the Rappahannock point - to- point claim that it’s a marvelous course to race on.”
“There are,” he paused, “up and down hills. We do have safe jumps for them.
“We started off with junior races, flat races. Then we went to pair races, with eight or nine fences, in full view of all the spectators. They all loved it, a distance of about two miles, which is usually run in five or six minutes...”
“THEN WE decided two years age we’d have hurdle races, coinciding with the timber races. And the first year we had to split it...
“Emily, my wife, and I decided last year that we would give a perpetual trophy for the Durant Hill race. This year the point
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