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Steeplechasing in
Virginia has been a
way of life since early
Colonial times when the horse became a necessity of transportation, farming, military life and sport. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson met in sporting competition over fences. Organized steeplechase races have run in Fauquier County since 1844 originally at White Sulphur Springs, once a fashionable spa near Warrenton.
On April 3,1922, eight sportsmen met at the Fauquier Club in Warrenton and decided to organize a four-mile race between flags over the natural walls and fences of the nearby hunting countryside. Pledging $1,000 to purchase a trophy for the winning owner, they ruled that it be keep permanently by the first owner to win the race three times, neither necessarily in consecutive years nor with the same horse.
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