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May. 23, 2013, 02:13 PM
Premature to make firm plans, but Virginia Hunt Week organizers have listed a tentative schedule for this fall.
The full list is online at...
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May. 20, 2013, 01:56 AM
ETA --
May -- Memorial Day weekend includes the Hunt Country Stable Tour
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May. 19, 2013, 08:06 PM
March - foxhunting, point to point season/witch hazel, spice bush, lenten roses
April - point to point season, Morven Park CIC/cherry blossoms
May...
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May. 13, 2013, 12:25 PM
In ye olde days, more could squash into Percy Warner, but they changed around the box seating and moved things around since the mid-'80s (when they'd...
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May. 13, 2013, 01:47 AM
Percy Warner Park isn't as big as Great Meadow. 25k is a good crowd.
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May. 12, 2013, 09:41 AM
I just posted a big photo album on my Fb!
really superb racing.
**Virginia horses** won 6 of 8 races (a little shout-out humble-brag for my...
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May. 10, 2013, 04:47 PM
PUT IT IN THE FREEZER.
I had a mother bird push some chick/s out of a nest on my porch. I put them back and they were down again, dead, later. I...
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May. 10, 2013, 04:44 PM
Penrhyn Bayswater, a championship Cleveland Bay (he's shown in hand, has lots of progeny to win on the line -- mine won as a foal at Upperville! and...
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May. 10, 2013, 06:38 AM
Drumb.
That's been happening for decades - Leo O'Brien on down!
There's just not a rural agricultural pony club foxhunting base here as much as...
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May. 9, 2013, 11:25 PM
No leverage!
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May. 9, 2013, 11:25 PM
He could not un-do his own overgirth in the winner's enclosure.
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May. 7, 2013, 02:22 AM
Ooooh - SteeleRdr -- do me a favor, take your laptop with you Wed. night and log onto my newspapers' website and show the crew the local paper's...
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May. 6, 2013, 04:58 AM
I do this sometimes, though I send people to Marriott if I can't accommodate (size, timing, numbers.)
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May. 6, 2013, 04:38 AM
The Virginia Racing Commission executive secretary said, regarding 'time difference betting,' that numbers well show that handle is solid for US east...
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May. 5, 2013, 04:49 PM
No, there was no simulcast signal. They could not risk the capital on a flyer like this -- best stick with live product at first.
They plan to...
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May. 4, 2013, 10:16 PM
I just posted a ton of pix on my FB page.
It was a stunning success. Nearly $100k handled; could have been 3 or 4 times that with 3 or 4 times the...
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May. 4, 2013, 09:40 AM
Justpourit it out.
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May. 1, 2013, 03:20 PM
Often (unfortunately) the horse is saying not that he doesn't like 'trailers' but that he doesn't like *that one.*
Try him in someone's open stock...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 09:50 PM
His father made him school ponies for a week without a saddle (he hid it) as punishment for falling off in a horse show at age 12.
Ya' think that...
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Apr. 28, 2013, 05:47 AM
RIP from Virginia in case this is read by someone who loved him.
(Nice idea Skydy.)
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Apr. 28, 2013, 05:43 AM
Mark Beecher's brother won the European (Irish?) show jumping championship, and he comes from a family of show jumpers, foxhunters, and sport horse...
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