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Battleship

Tiny 15.2 hand 'chaser bred by Walter Salmon's Mereworth Farm in Kentucky, Battleship won the 1934 American Grand National (over timber) and the 1938 English Grand National. The gelding is also a member of the National Racing Museum Hall of Fame

Randolph D. Rouse

• Owner, trainer, rider, breeder, race chairman, master of foxhounds • Won nine Seven Comers owner-rider timber championships • Virginia Point-to-Point Association leading rider four times • Campaigned three VPPA timber horses of the year

See Hall of Fame, Page 19

Joseph Rogers' King of Spades, shown here winning the Virginia Gold Cup at the old Broadview course, was inducted into the new Hall of Fame.

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