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put on an infield race over specially designed board fences, a race won by Peter J. Thompson’s gray Shy Donald with William Chewning aboard, a horse which will be running often in Virginia ’chases this fall. The most die-hard lovers of ‘chasing are to be found in the Green Spring and Worthington Valleys of Maryland, the country around Unionville, Pennsylvania, and in the MiddleburgWarrenton-Leesburg axis of Virginia where hunt racing comes close to being a religion. In 1978, Raymond G. (Raymie) Woolfe, Jr., inaugurated the highly successful Foxfield Meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in 1980, Dr. Joe Rogers organized the first meeting at Morven Park, outside Leesburg - the seventh such hunt meeting in the state, the others being Strawberry Hill in Rifchmond; Virginia Gold Cup, Warrenton, Fairfax, Leesburg, Middleburg, and Montpelier. There are those who worry, and rightly so, about what increased commercialization might do to steeplechasing, flat racing having long ago become more of an industry than a sport, with horses being quickly retired to stud after winning a few big stakes races. However, the consensus appears to be that without further commercialization, steeplechasing might well face extinction. And as Paul Mellon said awhile back in a speech to the Thoroughbred Club of America:
“I can’t imagine life without ‘chasers'. .
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