Secretariat’s Meadow – The Land, The Family, The Legend

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  • Before there was Big Red…there was “the Great Red Fox”

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                                                              A century before Meadow Stable, home of Hall of Famers Secretariat, Riva Ridge, Hill Prince and Cicada, put Doswell, Virginia on the racing map, Bullfield Stable in nearby Hanover County dominated the American racing scene.  Its most famous son was a long-striding chestnut stallion named Planet, also called “the great red fox.” He was…

  • Kicking off our Barnstorming Book Tour!

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      And they’re off!”    We are out of the starting gate for our “Barnstorming Book Tour” to promote “Secretariat’s Meadow – The Land, The Family, The Legend.”  Kate Chenery Tweedy and I are the co-authors of this new pictorial history about Secretariat and his Virginia birthplace, The Meadow. This blog will be our report from…