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Rutledge Farm38°59′9.2″N 77°41′32.4″W / 38.985889°N 77.692333°W  Historic Rutledge Farm[1] is a Grand Prix and hunter/jumper facility, in Middleburg, Virginia, owned by Rutledge Farm, LLC (Aleco Bravo-Greenberg and Mrs. Hermen Greenberg). Built in 1740, it was most recently owned by Aleco's late step-father, Mr. Hermen Greenberg, who had built it into a world-class Thoroughbred breeding operation. Main HouseThe Main House was built in 1740 and was preceded by a log cabin. The original logs are still used as overhead beams in the Main House's basement. An addition was built in 1820.
Rutledge Farm sessions clinic series2021 was shortened by COVID-19, and Rutledge brought in one show hunter champion. The other slated Olympic medalists were rescheduled for 2022.
2020 was shortened by COVID-19, and Rutledge brought in one show hunter champion and one two-time Olympic silver medalist. The other slated Olympic medalists were rescheduled for 2021.
2019 expanded the Rutledge Farm sessions to include Olympic medalists and international champions, from jumping, eventing, dressage, and equitation.
2018 featured four Olympic gold medalists.
2017 Rutledge Farm inaugurated its high-performance clinic series, with an Olympic gold medalist jumper.
Thoroughbred winnersColonial AffairBred Colonial Affair, who won the 1993 Belmont, carrying Julie Krone. Trained by the 1992 U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Scotty Schulhofer, Colonial Affair is best known for his win in the 1993 Belmont Stakes, as the 13-1 longshot. Colonial Affair's 1993 Belmont triumph is also in the record books, because it was the first time that any female jockey (Julie Krone) won any of the three races of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Colonial Affair went on to win other major races, including the Peter Pan Stakes (1993), the Whitney Handicap (1994), the Jockey Club Gold Cup (1994), and the Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap (1994). Colonial Affair was also only 3 votes shy (out of a possible 247) of winning the 1994 Eclipse Award for American Male Champion Older Horse. Sur La TeteBred Sur La Tete, a steeplechase star, who won eight stakes races between 2003 and 2006, and who was also a finalist for the 2004, 2005, and 2006 Eclipse Award Steeplechase Horse of the Year. Sur La Tete retired in 2007, as the fourth-leading earner in the history of the National Steeplechase Association. Purchased and raced by Kinross Farm, Sur La Tete retired with $664,050 in steeplechase earnings and nine victories, including six Grade 1 wins. Other significant "in the money" finishes included two Grade 2 second-place finishes, three Grade 3 third-place finishes, and one Grade 3 win. ResearcherPurchased Researcher, as a baby, for only $2,500. Winner of the April 18, 2009, first annual Charles Town Classic, at 11⁄8 miles, for horses four years old and older. Rutledge Farm continued racing him until April 16, 2010, when Mr. Greenberg's estate sold him to Mr. Zohar Ben-Dov. One day later, April 17, 2010, Researcher won the second annual Charles Town Classic. On March 28, 2009, shortly before his 2009 Charles Town Classic win, on the same track, and at the same 11⁄8 mile distance, Researcher set a new track record, when he won a race by 221⁄4 lengths. A horse from the most humble beginnings, Researcher was bought by Rutledge Farm (Mr. Hermen Greenberg) as a $5,000 charitable donation to the Virginia Tech Foundation's M.A.R.E Center, in Middleburg, Virginia.
Winners in each of the first three Charles Town Classic programs
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