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Randolph Scott) developed Montpelier as one of the nation’s leading horse-training centers, and covered the walls of the room with photographs of her champions. Her most famous horse was Battleship who, in 1938, was the first American horse to win the British Grand National Steeplechase.
In her final years, duPont Scott determined that Montpelier should be preserved and opened to the public as a monument to James Madison. In her will, she made arrangements that transferred the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and in 1984, a little more than one year after her death, the National Trust assumed ownership.
It is over duPont Scott’s very own training grounds that the grand finale of Virginia’s fall steeplechase season is contested.
See MEETS, Page 17
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