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Loudoun horseman hands-on
By Julie Reardon
Times Community Newspapers Writer
If you were to be reincarnated as a race horse, you'd want Raymond Moffett Jr. as your owner. •
Not only does he love his horses, he's a hands-on kind of owner who participates actively in their training and takes them home to hunt them when they're finished with their racing careers.
Moffett comes by his love of race horses from a childhood spent with them in Maryland.
"My uncle, Joseph Richards, had a bunch of race horses," he explained. "I rode and raced them in my teens and early 20s, in the point to points and the county fairs they used to have then."
A hiatus from a life with horses ensued after his career as an Air Force pilot took him away from Maryland's hunt country.
"Then, after having a couple of little girls, I got back into it in 1968," Moffett said. "Of course, after getting them ponies, I had to get myself one."
He's had them ever since.
At the time, Moffett, his wife Lynn and their young family was stationed in Rochester, N.Y., where they all rode and joined the local hunt. In New York, Moffett found that their breeders' incentive program made racing an attractive proposition.
"I started racing there because I lived there,
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