News and views from the Middleburg Training Center
By Childs Walker | The Baltimore Sun Ronnie Franklin, the hard-living Dundalk-raised jockey who rode Spectacular Bid to victories in the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, died March 8 of lung cancer. He was 58. Full story posted by The Baltimore Sun
By Callie Broaddus | Middleburg Life If you build it, they will come. Or, at least, that’s the bet a few area equine facility owners and managers are making as they spend millions to bring their historic properties up to world-class competition standards. It may seem a silly question to ask, but why is there […]
By Joseph Dill | The Loudoun Tribune Chuck Kuhn, founder and president of JK Moving Services in Sterling, was presented an award for his land preservation efforts by the Old Dominion Land Conservancy (ODLC). Kuhn received the Commonwealth Steward Award for preserving more than 1,000 acres of land in Loudoun County at an event Oct. […]
By Veronike Collazo | The Loudoun Tribune Travel into Western Loudoun and horses become a more common part of the landscape. What many county residents may not realize is each horse represents a booming industry. “Most people don’t realize the size and breadth of the equine industry,” Supervisor Geary Higgins (R-Catoctin) said. “People see horses […]
By Chantalle Edmunds | The Loudoun Times-Mirror The Middleburg Training Track, a long sought-after facility in the Loudoun equine community, is being fully revamped in a multi-million dollar overhaul. The property’s new owner, Chuck Kuhn, the founder and CEO of JK Movers, recently purchased the 150-acre property for $1.5 million from the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. […]
By Leonard Shapiro | Fauquier Times The sale of the Middleburg Training Track was consummated last week, with Chuck Kuhn, founder and CEO of JK Movers based in Sterling, purchasing the 150-acre property for $1.5 million from the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. “It’s now in full revitalization mode,” Kuhn said Friday. “We had already started doing […]
By Ray Paulick | Paulick Report Consignor Cary Frommer made headlines in 2016 when two Uncle Mo colts she purchased as yearlings – one for $90,000 and another for $150,000 – brought seven-figure prices at the 2-year-old sales, the first going for $1 million at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale and the second for $1.3 million at OBS in March. Earlier […]
By Leonard Shapiro | Fauquier Times The Middleburg Training Track is now under contract to Purcellville businessman Chuck Kuhn, who plans to settle on the 150-acre property in mid-May and immediately put the land in conservation easement. The training track was originally donated to the Thoroughbred Retirement Fund (TRF) by its owner, the late Randy […]
By Vicky Moon and Leonard Shapiro | Fauquier Times Randolph D. “Randy” Rouse, a business impresario and a dashing, dapper and daring sportsman died on Friday, April 7. He was 100 years old. Widely known throughout Northern Virginia, and particularly in the horse country of Fauquier and Loudoun counties, Rouse recently also showed his philanthropic […]
By Leonard Shapiro | Fauquier Times The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) has listed for sale the 149-acre Middleburg Training Center that Virginia sportsman and developer Randy Rouse donated to the Saratoga-based organization on Dec. 29. The property is now listed by Teddy Zimmerman and Laura Farrell of Atoka Properties-Middleburg Real Estate in Middleburg for $2.25 million. Rouse had […]