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turf course in America.
Virginia has become the equestrian cradle of America.
The human side
In its first centuries of association with man, horses were a mainstay of the working and fighting life. Modem technology has made the horse in Virginia largely a pleasure animal and a mighty industry. The Virginia horse has been carried on and is led today by a special breed of sporting people:
The owners who breed or purchase young horses form the risk-taking backbone of the sport. The only reward an owner can safely look forward to is the pride and pleasure of producing a winner on the flat, a first between the flags in steeplechasing, a ribbon, piece of silver or small cash reward from the show ring, eventing, polo or roping.
The hunting chase began here even before George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Lord Fairfax, settling in Virginia in 1746, was the first master of foxhounds in America, and the first man of record to keep a regular establishment for hunting. Those who ride to hounds today are at the core of preservation of Virginia’s open spaces and farming countryside.
Sterling Larrabee, a great
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