Cheshire Races

THANK YOU!

Our day of racing was a tremendous success! We are so grateful to all those who contributed. See you in 2024!

View photos of the races by Official Race Photographer Jim Graham here: RACE PHOTOS

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The Cheshire Races are held on the last Sunday in March at the Plantation Field course, just off Route 82 outside Unionville.

Brief History of the Cheshire Races

Mr. Stewarts Cheshire Foxhounds was founded in 1914 by Plunket Stewart, the stepfather of Nancy Penn Smith Hannum, who made her joint master with him in 1945. In 1946, after the war, they started the races because it was fun. Back then, the event consisted of just three races: a ladies race, a heavyweight race and the open race for the Cheshire Bowl. This was a race people pointed to because the big prize in timber racing is to win the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Cheshire Bowl was the kind of course with the kind of fences that would help to get a horse ready.