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By CLIVE CARNIE
Arundel Newspaper Writer
The upcoming Memorial Day weekend offers Virginians a unique chance to visit several local horse farms, spend an afternoon at the races and watch the best foxhounds in the state on show.
Few people have the opportunity to visit horse farms, unless they are breeding a horse there or are friends or relatives of the owners.
But, this weekend, several Virginia Hunt Country farm owners are opening their farms and stables to the public for the Hunt Country Stable Tour to benefit Upperville’s Trinity Episcopal Church.
For $12 the visitor can drive at his leisure to nine area farms, each with its own fascinating atmosphere and style. Last year more than 3,000 people took the tour and there were no complaints heard by organizers.
A couple of new stables highlight this year’s tour, the 16th for the church.
Racing history buffs and race enthusiasts should enjoy Joe Albritton’s remodelled Brookmeade Farm, former home of several champions, TBe 1934 Kentucky Derby winner, Cavalcade, was bred at Brookemeade. This son of Lancegaye also won four other major stakes races as a 3-year-old.
Isabel Dodge Sloan, known as the “First Lady of the Turf’ for her accomplishments with her horses, Brought Brookemeade to fame. Perhaps her most famous runner was Sword Dancer who carried Mrs. Sloan’s silks into the Racing Hall of Fame at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
“I think Brookemeade’s kind of the prime place this year, since it’s new and been redone,” says Paul Ziluca, chairman of the Stable Tour. “Mr. Albritton is putting three barns on the tour. I think it’s going to be very interesting for people to see, and also the location is tremendous. It’s right on top of a hill overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains.”
Another new farm on the tour is Huntland, a late Georgian house that was the home of President Monroe’s manager in 1830 and was also voted one of the seven .outstanding country properties in America by Country Life magazine.
“It’s a very old and historical place,” says Mr. Ziluca. “They used to have foxhound packs from all over the country gather there for competition. On the tour we have the stable to show and one of the kennels. It’s a little more old fashioned than most of the other farms on the tour. The grounds are gorgeous.”
Visitors to Huntland will also be able to picnic on the mansion’s spectacular grounds.
One of the most popular stables on the tours of years past has been Paul Mellon’s Rokeby Farm near Upperville. Mr. Mellon will once again open his beautiful farm for this year’s tour. Visitors can see the broodmare barn, housing many immaculately-bred mares and their foals, and the yearling barn.
Redskin owner Jack Kent Cooke’s Kent Farm, with its stable of Tennessee Walking Horses, is also on the tour, as is Gordon Grayson’s Blue Ridge Farm, home of stallions Farewell Party, Gilded Age, Man Tan, Recupere, Salem and Sevastapol.
Other farms and facilities on the tour are the Middleburg Training
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