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Prom June 4-10, spectators can watch the best hunters and jumpers and ponies in the land compete under the same leafy canopy that has shaded the Upperville Colt and Horse Show grounds for more than 150 years.
The original idea for the Upperville Colt and Horse Show was generated by Col. R. H. Dul any, who staged judging of young horses under the venerable oaks of his No. 6 field hard by the Winchester Pike one fine June day in 1853.
The show soon came to be organized by the Upperville Union Club for the Improvement of Horses, the name of which was altered after the Civil War (for obvious reasons.)
The sporting journal of its day, the Southern Planter, reported the event for the first time in August 1857, though one questions the exactitude of the information reported, or perhaps seeming vagrancy are a result of wording and implications that a reader of the day could follow. Consider the following;
“The duties of the harvest field prevented us from attending the late exhibition of The Upperville Union Club for the Improvement of Horses, which took place, for the second time, on the 15 of June last.”
On assessment of the horses, Planter articles vary, also. The 1857 article at once praises the quick draft and animals for heavier work on exhibit, while
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