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Out of the ashes of the Civil War, Virginia horsemen began a rebuilding process which continues to this day. The U.S. Army’s last national cavalry Remount Station was in Virginia, near Front Royal.
20th-century role
change
Over the past century, Virginia horses have provided the foundation of modern American breeding and racing. While the roots of the Virginia horse lay in its Southside, the 20th century brought a move to Northern Virginia’s better grass and breeding grounds. The virtual flood to Virginia by rail and cur 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 a long October-to-April hunting season.
Thoroughbred horsemanship took a major leap when those wealthy Northerners began settling in Virginia in the 1920s and ’30s. William DuPont, who bought President Madison’s Montpelier, and Paul Mellon’s Rokeby stable, are two which have produced outstanding race horses and steeplechasers. Virginia produced Secretariat, winner of the Triple Crown in 1973, and Ann Stern’s Saluter, who has won six straight runnings of the Virginia Gold Cup. Uncommon with much of the rest of America in the 20th century, a little wager on a horse race was never immoral,
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