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Virginia has since produced many other top horses and riders. A few with international connections include Middleburg native Ibmmy Smith who partnered Charles Tbwn Races’s reject Jay Trump when that gelding won the 1963, ’64 and ’66 Maryland Hunt Cups, as well as the 1965 English Grand National. Jay Trump became the first American-owned, American-ridden English national winner.
Of late, Virginia-bred and -owned Saluter took his legendary status as the nation’s timber champion on the road when shipping to race in England’s Marlboro Cup for the World Timber Championship title in 1997. The bay gelding trounced a strong field of Britain’s best to capture the crown before returning for a fifth straight Virginia Gold Cup victory the following spring at Great Meadow. He is currently in training for a sixth try at the four-mile American classic and possibly another try in England.
“The History of American Steeple chasing” takes readers from the inception of the jump racing sport all the way through 1999. Winants said that his research is complete, and that the final parts of his book would be finished with reports of active horses through this season.
“I’m sure some horses will still be active even when I’m done with the book,” said Winants, 72. “History is so important. We can’t enjoy what is going on in the present if we can’t recall and understand the past. All too often we don’t study history, really learn it. We’ve got to know history to
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