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The Gold Cup
was initially
known as the
‘Virginia Hunt
Cup,’ and was
run for a silver,
not gold, trophy.
race open to the best... in the land.” The four-mile timber race, contested at the Oakwood estate just outside Warrenton, was won by Arthur White on Katherine Hitt’s Irish Laddie.
The winning owner retained the prize, a handsome silver cup, for one year, but the next running was for a far more valuable gold trophy, purchased as the award for the second annual ’chase.
With the weight of history behind it, then, does the Virginia Gold Cup continue today as America’s premier timber race. The race is held at Great Meadow in The Plains, a field events center designed in 1983-’84 as a permanent home for the state’s
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