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become a huge housing development, for a new racecourse. Arundel rallied friends and steeplechase supporters to give the Gold Cup a permanent home.
In 1985, after several test gallops, the Gold Cup moved after 50 years at Broadview to the new course for its 60th running.
Thus a new era of the Gold Cup began. Great Meadow is quite different from Broadview. At the old course, cattle grazed 11 months a year. Great Meadow course provides ideal conditions for horses and spectators alike. Great Meadow’s fences are higher than those of Broadview course. “We brought them up to where they used to be in die 1930s,” Arundel said.
The move to the new course has meant changes in the style of racing and in the type of horse that it best suits. Three-time Gold Cup winner Charlie Fenwick suggests that the Broadview course required a “very consistent horse that could take repetition and maintain his jumps.
“Great Meadow,” he said, “demands a horse with the ability to take bigger fences, yet still go the long distances.”
NS A president George Strawbridge calls Great Meadow “the crown jewel of American steeplechasing.” Arundel says “the Virginia Gold Cup is driven by harmony with its community, its traditions and its environment The purpose is to grow, not bigger, but better.”
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