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Fairfax Hunt Races
The Fairfax Hunt hosted its first
I steeplechase meet 29 years ago in Reston.
“Our old race course is now covi ered with houses and schools,” says j Randolph A. Rouse, master of the hunt and chairman of the races.
Fairfax now holds its races at the Belmont Plantation, a property owned by IBM, near Leesburg. It is one of the few steeplechase courses anywhere that spectators can see the whole course from one position.
Purses at Fairfax are up by $4,000 this fall for the six race card on Saturday, Sept. 20. The first race, a non-sanctioned turf contest for lady riders, goes off at 2 p.m. The sanctioned portion of the program comprises three brush races, a flat race and a timber race.
The feature brush race, which follows a maiden and a claiming race , over national fences, is the $6,000 i Sovran Bank Guest Cup for 3-year■ olds and up which have never won j $3,600 twice. The feature timber ' race, the $7,000 Virginia Gentleman Sewman Bowl, is the final race on the card.
The Bowman Bowl, a three-mile open timber contest, is the first of the Loudoun County Timber Triple Crown races sponsored by the U.S. Trust Company of New York. The owner of the horse placing highest in the triple of Fairfax, Middleburg and Morven Park will receive an award from U.S. Trust.
Belmont Plantation is located on Rt. 7 east of Leesburg. General adSee
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