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The Meadow Outdoors Foundation announced on Jan 3 the donation by Arthur W. Arundel of land for the complete Great Meadow race course, to be perpetually preserved in open space and for use by the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechasing classic and other events.
The once-abandoned farmland near The Plains was found and personally bought by Arundel in 1982 when the Gold Cup lost its former race course in Warrenton to housing development. .
He subsequently donated the original land needed for the course to the nonprofit foundation, named it Great Meadow and led its construction for steeplechasing, polo, other equestrian events and free use by other nonprofit community organizations.
His latest gift of 110 acres on the far east side of the property — which up until now had been leased to the foundation for $1 a year — completes the permanent 175-acre Great Meadow facility.
Arundel is a successful communications executive who pioneered American all-news broadcasting and has built a company now publishing 16 newspapers and Internet news sites.
Over the past 15 years he has built the Virginia Gold Cup into one of the nation’s major steeplechase events, drawing crowds of more than 50,000 and broadcast.on national television.
A former amateur steeplechase rider, Arundel once remarked, “In the first third of your life you learn, in the second you earn and then you give it all back. I just got into this with a bunch of pals to give back the good fun I’ve had in this great sport.”
Great Meadow is today among the largest permanently preserved countryside field sports facilities in America and is under consideration as the equestrian site of the next World Olympic Games in
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