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plechase, horse show and foxhunting worlds. They settled in The Plains and formed a racing stable named Coosaw after a family plantation in Beaufort, S.C.
Mrs. Fout was an active rider until just days before her death. She won the North American Field Hunter Championship with Morning Pleasure in October. She hunted with the Middleburg Orange County Beagles several times a week. Mrs. Fout was the first woman trainer to saddle the winner of the Virginia Gold Cup, with Moon Rock Eyes in 1964.
Mrs. Fout was instrumental in supporting the local U.S. Pony Club chapter, the Middleburg-Orange County Pony Club.
She was also a renowned equine artist, co-founder of The American Academy of Equine Art, with works — drawings, oil paintings and, later in fife, bronze sculptures — on display in the Sporting Library in Middleburg and in private homes around the world.
In addition to her role with the Piedmont Environmental Council, she was an active board member of a range of organizations involving conservation, equestrian sports and sporting art, including the Outstanding Virginian Board, Friends of Sporting Art of Virginia, and the Scenic Virginia Board of Trustees.
She was also on the board of Virginia Gold Cup Association. Among her many contributions, one of the most significant was her hand in the birth of Great Meadow Field Events Center near her home.
This included helping Great Meadow founder Nick Arundel arrange a gift of the classic 1930b King of Spain and other race trophies from Pennsylvania’s Rolling Rock steeplechase meeting to the Great Meadow Foundation when it suddenly was evicted from its race course at the time the new Virginia Gold Cup race course was being established by Arundel in 1984.
Mrs. Fout is survived by her three children, Doug, of The Plains, Nina, of Middleburg, and Virginia, now. living „inr , California. ,. . ^ r
Doug Pout has been champt- - on steeplechase jockey and continues managing a public training operation at Coosaw.
Nina Fout has been active in foxhunting, horse showing and three-day eventing. She was a member of the bronze medalwinning Olympic three-day event team on one of her father’s former racehorses, Three Magic Beans.
Virginia Fout grew up fox hunting and horse showing. She operates an event-coordination business in California, but is still active in the horse show world.
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