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Improvements included a flat turf track, a new paddock and saddling stalls constructed near the tiers of boxes and grandstands. “The new course will be a real test to a jumper and hunter as one of the jumps is so constructed that the horses must clear a flowing stream of water, dammed up to give it the proper width. A Liverpool and open ditch jumps have also been provided,” it was reported in the Nov. 4, 1936 Fauquier Democrat. “Approximately 2,000 turf folk representing high society of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Virginia.”
The racing conditions, however, were dismal; 10 scratched due to hard, bumpy conditions. Jim Ryan, Paul
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