Racing in the Old Dominion

Racing in the Old Dominion

Culture Racing in the Old Dominion The Virginia Derby showcases the best of thoroughbred racing—both its horses and its people. Two thoroughbreds dance along a green ridge as I leave my home in King William County for the Virginia Derby on a gray Saturday morning in Central Virginia. Though Kentucky may be synonymous with thoroughbreds, I was raised just a stone’s throw from the Meadow Stables, where Secretariat was bred and raised. Virginians …