BOARDING POLO & VIRGINIA CERTIFIED RACING THOROUGHBREDS & STANDARDBREDS
Every prizewinner deserves world class care. We treat your horse like the champions they are.
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Powhatan Plantation is located in the beautiful countryside of King George county. With over 600 acres, Powhatan Plantation is the ideal place to turnout your horses. Powhatan offers you a rare chance to treat your horse to world class care, whether it is a championship athlete or not.
The Powhatan property itself includes a 3/4 mile oval training track, a main training barn, broodmare barn and a yearling barn. 600 of the acres feature well-fenced pastures and paddocks. It also includes long airstrip that divides the complex allows horse owners to fly in. |
Previous Award Winning Horses Boarded
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Powhatan has boarded many award winning ponies in the past. With our track record, we'll turn your pony into champion in no time.
These Include: Sir Ivor (Winner of the 1968, 2000 Guineas Derby) Larkspur (Winner of the 1962 Epsom Derby) L'Escargot (Winner of the 1975 Grand National) |
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About Us
The facility was initially constructed in 1829 by Edward Thorton Tayloe and was a major agricultural centre trading with English ships coming in on the Rappahannock River. The current operation was started by present owner Achille Guest’s father Raymond Guest, after he purchased the facility in 1952.
Raymond bred and raised thoroughbreds, some of which were well renowned race horses, not just here in the States, but overseas in Ireland, France, and England as well. Raymond was the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1965 – 1968, He was always passionate about horses. He played polo, hunted, and rode; he was a true horseman. He is one of only three owners to win both the Epsom Derby and the Grand National.
He was voted in as President of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association in 1958. His most accomplished horse in the States was Tom Rolfe, the winner of the 1965 Preakness Stakes whose accomplishments led him to win American Champion 3-year-old Male Horse honors. Guest also dabbled in steeplechasers, the most impressive of which was I’Escargot a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame member who was awarded 1969 U.S. Steeplechase Horse of the Year. After receiving the award, he shipped across the Atlantic to England where he won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in back-to-back years (1970-1971). There is a history of greatness at the Powhatan Plantation.
The farm started with Polo horses, Raymond played Polo and began keeping the horses on the property in the off-season. Typically, the horses played a summer season in New York and then returned to Virginia to rest for the off-season before returning to Florida for the Winter. To this day, they continue to house polo horses in the off-season.
When the Virginia Certified program started, Raymond’s son Achille was seeking to diversify the cattle business that dominated his interests. In 2019, they brought in their first bunch of standardbred race horses, these horses were owned by Virginia Harness Horse Association President Dr. Scott Woogen.
Raymond bred and raised thoroughbreds, some of which were well renowned race horses, not just here in the States, but overseas in Ireland, France, and England as well. Raymond was the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1965 – 1968, He was always passionate about horses. He played polo, hunted, and rode; he was a true horseman. He is one of only three owners to win both the Epsom Derby and the Grand National.
He was voted in as President of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association in 1958. His most accomplished horse in the States was Tom Rolfe, the winner of the 1965 Preakness Stakes whose accomplishments led him to win American Champion 3-year-old Male Horse honors. Guest also dabbled in steeplechasers, the most impressive of which was I’Escargot a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame member who was awarded 1969 U.S. Steeplechase Horse of the Year. After receiving the award, he shipped across the Atlantic to England where he won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in back-to-back years (1970-1971). There is a history of greatness at the Powhatan Plantation.
The farm started with Polo horses, Raymond played Polo and began keeping the horses on the property in the off-season. Typically, the horses played a summer season in New York and then returned to Virginia to rest for the off-season before returning to Florida for the Winter. To this day, they continue to house polo horses in the off-season.
When the Virginia Certified program started, Raymond’s son Achille was seeking to diversify the cattle business that dominated his interests. In 2019, they brought in their first bunch of standardbred race horses, these horses were owned by Virginia Harness Horse Association President Dr. Scott Woogen.
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12135 Ambassador Ln,
King George, VA 22485 |
(540) 775-4434
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