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ly, the formula must be just right: Gable ended the 1995 Virginia Point-to-Point season winning his fourth straight foxhunter’s series title with Roman Tent.
“Having a full-time job and riding a contender in this series is hard work,” said the 27-year-old Alexandria resident. “It’s tough on my car mostly — going from home to the office in Rockville, to the Middleburg training track [where his racehorse is in training with Don Yovanovich] to the kennels to hunt [near Hamilton where father Dr. Jim Gable is joint-master of Loudoun Hunt, West.] The miles add up. But I wouldn’t trade this for anything.”
A second generation horseman, Gable grew up in Loudoun County, hunting regularly first with the Middleburg Hunt where his father was first a whipper-iif and then joint-master. “I started on ponies in the hunt field,” Gable said. “Jumping anything and everything. Being a junior is so great. You have no fear. Then 1 moved on to horses before 1 went off to college” at William and Mary.
Even though he is the son of a doctor, with strong family history in the medical world. Gable pursued a degree in economics. After earning a bachelor of arts. Gable returned home to Loudoun and rejoined the hunt field, lie first whipped-in to his father at the
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