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als who attended the first official course walk last month. “It is a grand track,” said the native of Ireland. “Sure, it’ll look different the first day we gallop on the track than just walking it, but it looks to have good, sweeping turns and a nice long run-in.”
Estate history
Though Oak Ridge’s steeplechase history is still in the future, the 250-year-old estate features prominently in Virginia history. Oak Ridge was part of a 1730 land grant to Bristol merchants John Harmer and Walter King. The property was confiscated in the American Revolution with some holdings acquired by Col. William Cabell.
Robert Rives, Cabell’s sonin-law, obtained the tract in 1793. The house was built in 1802, nine rooms, Federal-style.
Rives was a prosperous international merchant who farmed tobacco and wheat with as many as 200 slaves. Thomas Jefferson was a visitor to the
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