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Aiken’s Early Rise as a Winter Horse Center
The piece traces Lulie Hitchcock and family influence in transforming Aiken into a winter equine hub. It covers Hitchcock Woods conservation, the establishment of the Hitchcock Foundation, the training center, the Triple Crown lineage, and the spread of polo, hunt meets, and the annual Aiken Horse Show now in its 82nd year hosted in Hitchcock Woods with charity and children’s classes.
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Aiken
Hitchcock Woods
Lulie Hitchcock
Louise
Lulie) Eustis
Celestine Eustis
Thomas Hitchcock
England
Lule
Hitchcock
Luke
Whitney
Frank Hitchcock
Friends of
Hitchock Woods
William C. Whitney
Dunbar Bostwick
Aiken Standard
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
Iselin
Hopeland Gardens
Aiken Jaycee
Hopelands
Tower
United States
Fred Post
South
Tommy Hitchcock
America
Whitney Field
Florida
G.H. Bostwick
Memorial Gate
Luke Hitchcock