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By Betsy Parker
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The National Steeplechase Association sanctioned season gets underway in Virginia this weekend, with the April 12 Strawberry Hill Races at Colonial Downs near Richmond.
Fbst time is 1:30 p.m. for the first of four hurdle races. A training flat race closes the card.
The Strawberry Hill meet is widely considered a kickoff for spring revelry in the greater Richmond area, attracting tens of thousands of racegoers who set up tailgate spaces and tent parties lining the Colonial Downs railside.
Formerly held at the state fairgrounds near downtown. Strawberry Hill moved east 20 miles to Colonial when the fairgrounds’ old steeplechase track was turned into the 3/4mile Richmond Raceway for NASCAR.
Eventually, race director Sue Mullins said, the Strawberry Hill meet, plus the state fair and other events, will be moved to Meadow Stud, birthplace of Virginia’s most famous Thoroughbred racehorse Secretariat.
Meadow, in Doswell, will be home to a grand equestrian facility, Mullins said, to include indoor and outdoor arenas, stabling for nearly 300 horses and a ‘chase track. Phase one of operations, which includes the show facility, should be done next year, with
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