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The meet fills a wide gap in Virginia’s fall circuit — previously there were three weeks between the Gold Cup and the former season-closer at Montpelier — as well as filling a gap in the larger, national calendar by placing a second, less rich meet on the third weekend in October that traditionally hosts a championship card, including the $250,000 Breeders’ Cup ‘chase, in New Jersey.
The Oak Ridge races, on the flat and over hurdles, with an emphasis on claiming races and conditions rather than open stakes like New Jersey, gives more horsemen a wider opportunity to earn prize money at the end of the lengthy season.
Oak Ridge is a 200-year-old estate formerly owned by a number of businessmen prominent in Virginia history. John Harmer and Walter King acquired the initial land grant in the colonial period that was later seized during the American Revolution. William Cabell acquired the property and left the tract to his son-in-law Robert Rives, a successful tobacco planter and international merchant, who built the earliest part of the historic house circa 1802.
See MEETS, Page 16
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