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Rounding out the day, all eyes turned to the course to watch a new addition to point-to-point racing, a race nobly named the Great Rappahannock Mule Race. Thirteen mules were entered for this spirited contest over a half-mile of turf. The first mules across the finish line won trophies, but the race didn’t stop there.
Mule riders were then allowed a run at a barrel upon which sat three bags of money, one with 50 silver dollars, another $15, the other $10, each identified by a different color ribbon.
Starter Bobby Green chased the reluctant mules away from the starting line, wildy waving his flag to get them going. As they came toward home, Suzie, probably the Piedmont’s most popular mule, moved well into the lead and finished with 12 lengths to spare over Frances, Redbud and Jane, Charles A. Selby, Scot Edwards and Hedi Peal, respectively, riding.
“She beat them on the hill,” a flushed and happy Samantha Williams said, gripping the $50 worth of silver she scooped up after the successful race. "She really boogied.” Miss Williams, who foxhunts her mule, races her in old-fashioned point-to-points and sometimes even decks out for side-saddle classes at hunter shows, attributes her great
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