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courses), turned Jamestown’s streets into race paths. Later, during the prosperous mid-1700’s, Virginians adopted the British fondness for foxhunting and distance racing. Jefferson and Washington raced each other across Virginia fields and with others took up the popular sport of foxhunting which carries on to this day.
Wealthy planters in the 1800’s imported “blooded” horses, descendants of the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Barb, with names like Jolly Roger, Janus and Fearnought. These stallions, in turn, produced such as Sir Archy, whose success as a stud ended American dependence on imported horses. Virginia led in the creation of the American thoroughbred.
Ravaged by war
The horse population has crashed twice in Virginia history; both times it has been rebuilt from the ruins.
First, Virginia’s horse stock was decimated during the Revolutionary War, largely because so much of that bloody engagement was fought on Virginia soil — its horses fell on the battlefield or were seized by British troops roaming the countryside seeking Virginia’s best blood stock to revitalize their own cavalry.
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