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Article: Steeplechase Partnership Hits Hurdle; Donation Dispute Stalls Gold Cup Lease Renewal
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 30, 1999
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The Gold Cup races are said to be the embodiment of Virginia
gentility, but lately the two organizations that produce the twice-
yearly entertainments held in northern Fauquier County have, ahem,
fallen a bit short of that mark.
The Virginia Gold Cup Association, which provides the organization
for the steeplechase races, is having difficulty securing a lease
renewal with its cousin the Meadow Outdoors Foundation, the group
responsible for the upkeep of the Great Meadows racecourse where the
events are held.
It would be easy to confuse the two tax-exempt groups as one in
the same, since they share money, board members, wealthy pedigrees
and a love for the pomp and pageant of steeplechasing. ...