Sporting Pursuits

Sporting Pursuits

The competitors in the Virginia Field Hunter Championships which took place at Foxcroft School.

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Dawn Dugan Colgan (far right), winner of the Virginia Field Hunter Championship with Tracey Cover, Kip Holloway, M.F.H; 2020 winner; Anne McDowell, owner of the 2021 winning horse; 2021 winner George Kingsley and Neil Morris, M.F.H.

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Huntsman Graham Buston and Sheri Bayly pass in front of Carter Hall in Millwood at the Blue Ridge Hunt Opening Meet.

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Huntsman Richard Roberts and Shannon Venezia at the Middleburg Hunt Opening Meet at Groveton Farm.

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At the Opening Meet of the Orange County Hounds at Meredyth Farm: Erica Picking, Maryalice Larkin Matheson Thomas, John Coles M.F.H., Fiona Anderson, Huntsman Reg Spreadborough, M.F.H., Jeb Hannum, III M.F.H and James Piper. (center) Malcolm Matheson III, M.F.H. with Rector Weston Mathews of Grace Episcopal Church The Plains and Austin Wendt, seminarian.

Piedmont Fox Hounds Huntsman Jordan Hicks at the Opening Meet at Shelby Bonnie’s Oakley.

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John B. “Jeb” Hannum, III with his daughter Chloe on Catch the Echo, reserve champion in the Virginia Field Hunter Championship. And p.s. This horse was in the Maryland Hunt Cup four consecutive years from 2013. Jeb rode him once, Diana Gilliam once and McLane Hendricks was up two times.

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Mary Crane won the 2022 Theodora A. Randolph Field Hunter Championship on her Forever Bernardini at Glenwood Park in Middleburg prior to the Virginia Fall Races.

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