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1953 horse of the year. He was shown in the U.S. and in Europe by an Army friend of mine."
Most of the farms in the county had 20 to 30 horses, the mares all bred to government stallions. “The farmers hoped to sell the foal back to the Army,” Eastham noted.
“In the old days, you could buy a whole truck load of horses in the F. T. Valley—good, dual purpose horses. They could work one day and have a foal the next.” The government paid about S165 for geldings, leaving the mares back on the farm, waiting to be bred back to the remount stallions.
There were no trucks hauling mares to Front Royal. Instead, the stallions were ridden from farm to farm, breeding as many as 70 in a season. Eastham recalled stories of Will Stark, a Rappahannock groom who worked at the remount station. "He’d ride that stallion around, trading stud services for shoes, chickens, a night’s lodging, just about anything you can think of,” Eastham said with a laugh.
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