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History
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Nine horses competed that May at Oakwood, an estate on Waterloo Road near Warrenton overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains and (Mice owned by President Abe Lincoln's personal physician, Dr. Robert King Stone.
In 1924, the race moved to a new course, Broadview Farm near Warrenton, and was mn for the first time under National Steeplechase Association rules It hns run each year since with only few interruptions during World War II.
It was not unusual in the early years for horses to be entered in both of America’s most challenging timber races, the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Virginia Gold Cup in the same year — the ultimate steeplechase challenge.
These two demanding races are both set over four miles of four- (Virginia) or five(Maryland) foot-high rail fences That they are scheduled only one week apart makes winning both a feat: only one horse, Howard Bruce's remarkable Billy Barton ridden by Albert Ober, has ever won both races in the same year (1926).
With the resumption of racing after the war in 1946, a new era begun for the Gold Cup. Among the new crop of young riders were D. M “Mikey* Smithwick and his brother A. P. “Paddy" Smithwick
Mikey won the 1946 race on Christopher Greer's Houseman, and would later retire the fourth
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