Connemara Show
Glenwood Park
Middleburg VA
2011

The tale of Glenwood Park is a love story for the ages.

Mr. Middleburg himself, sportsman, conservationist, foxhunter and civic supporter Daniel Sands loved the open rolling grasslands that fed his beloved Guernsey herd. And he loved both of those just as much as he loved the rocky crags on the hillside overlooking what became the infield on his beloved Glenwood Park racecourse in 1932. (©Tod Marks)

First run in 1955, the Virginia Fall Races were born out of love, too, initially added to the NSA calendar to boost a then-flagging fall circuit. Orange County Hounds president George Ohrstrom Sr. and longtime Piedmont Foxhounds master Theo Randolph conjured the autumn event, linking Glenwood and the National Sporting Library that Ohrstrom Sr. had helped establish in 1954. They tied both to the legacy Sands had created in support of sport and open space, all of which continue through to today.

Ohrstrom Sr. died just a month after that first Virginia Fall meet, but son George Ohrstrom Jr. played it forward until his 2005 death. He passed the baton to his family, still actively involved and ardent supporters of the gifts left by Sands, Ohrstrom and many others.


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Common chicory, also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons and wild endive is native to Europe and Asia but was introduced into the eastern U.S. in the early 1700s and has since spread across the continent.

Its 3- to 4-foot-tall stems interspersed with bright blue, 1.5- to 2-inch-diameter flowers are found on disturbed soils across Pennsylvania. All parts of the plant are edible, and the roots can be dried and ground into a coffee substitute.