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they said it sounded fine from up there.”
The control system for the speakers was mounted in the recently completed steward’s stand. The attractive stone and wood structure gave officials a magnificent view of the course and enabled announcer Mike Hughes to see the entire course with ease from his lofty perch on the fourth floor.
During the event, which began at noon, spectators wandered freely across the 200-acre course, examining the timber fences and the drainage lake in the middle of the course.
“We can’t wait to come out here for the races,” Lorraine Weaver of Alexandria said as she and husband Arv surveyed the sun-drenched meadow. “We’ve walked over the course and it’s beautifiil. It’s in excellent condition.”
Similar sentiments were voiced by many members of the crowd who, like the Weavers, were seeing the course for the first time Sunday.
While members of the crowd picnicked on the gently sloping hill in front of the Summer House — Great Meadow’s nerve center and office facility — they were entertained throughout the day by events on the course.
The Rappahannock Hunt opened the festivities with a display of fox hounds. The Warrenton Hunt and the Ashland Bassets also worked their hounds later in the day, giving many in the audience their first view of the magnificent animals at work.
Following the Rappahannock hounds Earl Wood of Earlysville and Charles Matheson of The Plains gave a stately display of carriage driving which delighted the picnicking crowd.
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