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he Middleburg Spring
Races has a lively and JL fascinating history. Daniel Cox Sands, a Middleburg sportsman who for four decades was Master of Fox Hounds of the Middleburg Hunt, organized the first Middleburg race meet in 1911.
Sands described the first meet to author Kitty Slater, which she relates in her 1967 book “Hunt Country of America.’*
“It was planned primarily for the entertainment of the farmers, over whose land we hunted and who sometimes were not easy to pacify when galloping hooves crushed crops in the ground or when foxes raided their chicken yards,” Sands said to Slater.
“Whole families came from miles around — on horseback, in buckboards, spring wagons, and buggies, some driving tandems. Everybody brought picnic baskets, and you never saw so much fried chicken in your life.”
By the following year the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association (now called the National Steeplechase Association) had sanctioned the Middleburg Race Meet, a full 11 years before the first running of the Warrenton Gold
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