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across Virginia fields and, with others, took up the popular sport of foxhunting, which carries on to this day.
Wealthy planters in the 1800s imported “blooded” horses, descendants of such noble steeds as Darley and the Godolphin Arabians, 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 was rebuilt from the ruins.
First, Virginia’s horse stock was decimated during the Revolutionary War, largely because that bloody engagement depended on horse cavalry — its horses falling on the battlefield or seized by British troops roaming the countryside to take Virginia’s best blood stock to revitalize their own badly-depleted cavalry inventory.
The Virginia horse population rose after the Revolution to unparalleled heights, only to be shattered again by the Civil War, which took an even
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