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ize a four-mile race over the natural walls and fences of the nearby hunting countryside. Pledging $1,000 to purchase a trophy for the winning owner, they ruled that it be kept permanently by the first owner to win the race three times.
Just 34 days later, they held the first Virginia Gold Cup race. And history was off and running.
From its beginning, the race was intended to be a national event drawing “the best hunters in America.” Unlike today’s seven-race card, that first Virginia Gold Cup was a single-race event, riders to be ‘gentlemen wearing racing colors or officers of the U.S. Army in uniform.”
See History, Page 17
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