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Rappahannock Hunt kicks off point-to-point races

by | Mar 9, 2024

Spectators watch a race at the Point-to-Point races at the Rappahannock Hunt on March 2.
Spectators watch a race at the Point-to-Point races at the Rappahannock Hunt on March 2.
A participant walks around the winner's circle at the Rappahannock Hunt Point- to-Point races on March 2. Right, one of the winning horses.
A participant walks around the winner's circle at the Rappahannock Hunt Point- to-Point races on March 2. Right, one of the winning horses.

Hundreds of spectators gathered around the horse track on Saturday to kick off the 2024 Rappahannock Hunt Spring Point-to-Point Races. 

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Spectators watch a race at the Point-to-Point races at the Rappahannock Hunt on March 2.

Held at The Hill Farm in Boston, racers and horses competed in eight races throughout the afternoon, some devoted to ponies and others to full-size horses and riders. The morning threatened rain, but the clouds cleared out as the races began, and attendees enjoyed the events from tailgates and lawn chairs set up along the racecourse. Saturday’s races are the first in a series of events leading up to the annual Virginia Gold Cup, which this year, will be held on Saturday, May 4, in The Plains.

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A participant walks around the winner’s circle at the Rappahannock Hunt Point- to-Point races on March 2. Right, one of the winning horses.

 

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By Ireland Hayes

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.