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Virginia’s mineral-rich grass and breeding grounds. The virtual flood to Virginia by rail and car of rich New York, Boston and Pittsburgh families in the early 20th century inspired the start of formal foxhunts in Loudoun and Fauquier counties where mild winters permitted an October-to-April hunt season.
Thoroughbred horsemanship took a major leap when those wealthy northerners began settling in Virginia in the 1920’s and ‘30s. William DuPont, who bought President Madison’s Montpelier, and Paul Mellon’s Rokeby Stable, have produced outstanding race horses and steeplechasers.
Virginia’s Meadow Stud near Ashland produced Secretariat, winner of the Triple Crown in 1973 and Virginiabred timber stars include Virginia Gold Cup Champion Saluter and two-time International Gold Cup winner Sugar Bee, to list just two. ..
Uncommon with much of the rest of America in the 20th century, a litue wager on a horse race was never immoral, just illegal, in Virginia. Then, after a 200-year history of “informal” racing and betting, Virginia in 1997 opened its first legalized pari-mutuel racing at Colonial Downs near Williamsburg with the largest
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