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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
"It’s a hobby that’s a business.” That’s the way William G. East ham. Senior, describes the horse operation on the Eastham's 860 acre Red Hill Farm down Route 729 from Ben Venue.
But horses are more than a business and hobby combined. Horses are a way of life for the Eastham family. They ride them, race them, hunt them, show them, breed them, buy them, sell them and love them.
W. G. Senior (Dunny to his friends) is the head of the family horse enterprise. He's fortunate in an era that’s seeing the average age of the American farmer climb higher and higher. Most children who’ve watched their fathers and mothers labor from dawn to dusk only to loose the year’s profit in a late freeze, a summer without rain or a sharp decline in prices at the livestock market
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