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By ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL
PuMiaher
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and local farmers once met on the streets of Alexandria and in Virginia fields to race from point to point, as likely from one big oak to another as to “yon church steeple.”
As the sport became tradition in Virginia, community involvement in the jump racing game became as important as the races themselves. Families would gather in country fields to watch their neighbors race and raise money for charities of the times.
Thus the “event” of steeplechasing — including the races, the day in the country with friends and the charitable focus —very early became part of Virignia’s rural culture in the area from Richmond north through the Piedmont to the Potomac River. It remains much the same today
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