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Cup (now called the Virginia Gold Cup).
Steeplechasing continued annually until being interrupted by World War I. It resumed in 1921 with the Middleburg Hunt Cup and the Farmers race held on the estates of Sands and his neighbor, William F. Hitt.
Slater wrote that by the 1930s, the Middleburg Races listed 11 races in 1933, its first two-day card. The year before, in 1932, Glenwood Park was built with provisions for timber brush, hurdle and flat races.
A report in the April 9, 1932 Fauquier Democrat (now the Fauquier 7Imes-Democrat) trumpeted: “The thousands of race goers coming to Middleburg April 16 for the 12th running of the Middleburg Hunt Race Meet will find a racing park declared by horsemen who have viewed it to be the most elaborate and unique of its kind in America. Since the running of the 1931 event, in which Sea Soldier flashed past the judges stand a winner, money has been spent lavishly in improvements to the course."
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