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Box 257

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Breeding Records - Foxcatcher Farms, 1950s-1960s

 File — Box: 257
Accession: 2317Identifier: 2317-II.-V.-A.
Scope and Content:

Records for horses bred by Foxcatcher Farms and William du Pont, Jr. include pedigree charts for broodmares and stallions, horses' stakes and stakes won records and lists of Foxcatcher Farms stakes winners.

Dates: 1950s-1960s

Breeding Records - Walnut Hall Farm, 1950s-1970s

 File — Box: 257
Accession: 2317Identifier: 2317-II.-V.-A.
Scope and Content:

Includes the pedigrees of stallions and mares bred by Walnut Hall Farm, William du Pont, Jr. and other breeders and registration forms for the Jockey Club, New York, accompanied with related correspondence.

Dates: 1950s-1970s

Cecil County Breeders' Fair, Inc., 1956-1964

 File — Box: 257
Accession: 2317Identifier: 2317-II.-V.-A.
Scope and Content:

Correspondence of du Pont as the president of the Maryland corporation, chairman of the track building committee, and the owner of Fair Hill where the race meetings were held.

Dates: 1956-1964

"The Construction of Hunt Meeting Race Courses", undated

 File — Box: 257
Accession: 2317Identifier: 2317-II.-V.-A.
Scope and Content:

Copies of a brochure, probably compiled by du Pont about building a race course for hunt races, accompanied with preparatory materials for chapters, and 38 5 × 3.5 black and white photographs of courses and jumps at Rosetree, Radnor, PA (nine photos), Maryland (eleven photos), and Delaware Park (eighteen photos).

Dates: undated