Shady Hill Farm is one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia due to development and legislation that gives Virginia breeders less money than other states. At Shady Hill Farm in Fauquier, Erica Hitch and Katy Lee bring foals and mares to the barn to be fed.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Virginia has lost most of its thoroughbred operations over the past thirty years because of development and legislation that gives Virginia breeders less money than other states. Shady Hill Farm, one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia, produced Quality Road, a horse that may run in the Belmont Stakes.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Shady Hill Farm is one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia. The state has lost most of its thoroughbred operations over the past 30 years because of development and legislation that gives Virginia breeders less money than other states.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Trophies crowd the office of Shady Hill Farm from the horses they have bred. The farm produced Quality Road, a horse that may run in the Belmont Stakes. Shady Hill Farm is one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Shady Hill Farm is one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Shady Hill Farm, one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia, produced Quality Road, a horse that may run in the Belmont Stakes. But over the past 30 years, Virginia has lost most of its thoroughbred operations because of development and legislation that gives Virginia breeders less money than other states.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Horses at Shady Hill Farm in Fauquier, one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia. Virginia has lost most of its thoroughbred operations over the past 30 years because of development and legislation that gives Virginia breeders less money than other states.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Erica Hitch and Katy Lee bring foals and mares to the barn to be fed. Shady Hill Farm is one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Shady Hill Farm is one of the last large thoroughbred breeding operations in Virginia. The farm produced Quality Road, a horse that may run in the Belmont Stakes. Virginia has lost most of its thoroughbred operations over the past 30 years because of development and legislation that gives Virginia breeders less money than other states.

Photo: Andrea Bruce, Washington Post

Tagged: Fauquier County, horses, Shady Hill Farm, State news

Former delegate and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, Brian Moran, gestures during the Jefferson/Jackson Democratic fundraising event in Richmond on Saturday, Feb. 7.

Photo: Associated Press/Steve Helber

Tagged: Democratic Party, elections, fundraiser, politics, State news

State officials announced on Feb. 5 that they had come to an agreement on a state-wide smoking ban, which would ban smoking in bars like Shenanigans Pub in Leesburg. The only exemptions under the ban would include private clubs and establishments with walled-off, ventilated rooms.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: Leesburg, smoking ban, State news

Christy Gates of Lovettsville, and Don Ferguson of Leesburg, enjoy smoking at Shenanigans Pub in Leesburg, which they will no longer be able to do under Virginia's smoking ban.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: Leesburg, smoking ban, State news

Don Ferguson of Leesburg lights a cigarette inside Shenanigans Pub in Leesburg. Virginia recently found agreement on a state-wide smoking ban.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: Leesburg, smoking ban, State news

Brothers John, Jim, Brian and Paul Moran celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Jim Moran's congressional office on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 20. Brian Moran has entered the Virginia governor's race.

Photo: Amy Gardner

Tagged: elections, politics, State news

U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) shares a laugh with his son, Patrick, 19, his brother, Brian and Brian's daughter McClane, 8, at a celebration in Jim Moran's congressional office on inauguration day. Brian has entered the Virginia governor's race.

Photo: Amy Gardner

Tagged: elections, politics, State news

Moderator Ed Jones of the Freelance Star oversees as gubernatorial candidates, Terry McAuliffe, Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran share a laugh while speaking during AP Day at the Capital at the Richmond Times Dispatch on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, in Richmond.

Photo: Associated Press/Lisa Billings

Tagged: elections, politics, Richmond, State news

Rachel Lawson, left, looks after nine-year-old Zach Case, foreground, who has a form of autism, and his siblings eight-year-old Jared Case and six-year-old Katie Case while their mother speaks before the Virginia House Appropriations Committee and the Virginia Senate Finance Committee during a public hearing Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, in Richmond, Va.

Photo: AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Alexa Welch Edlund

Tagged: children, health, health care, State news

Cassandra Oldham, center, holds a picture of her two year-old son Korlan while listening to Delegate Poisson explain the order of the hearing.

Photo: Charity Corkey, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: health care, special needs, State news

Residents of Loudoun County enter the General Assembly to speak to the Special Advisory Commission around 12 p.m. Monday afternoon.

Photo: Charity Corkey, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: health care, special needs, State news

Diagnosed with classic Autism, Ethan Nunez, 6, has difficulty maintaining eye contact.

Photo: Cydney Cappello, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: health care, special needs, State news

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