As part of our continuing series of interviews with equestrian legends we revisit an interview from 2012 with a woman who is revered in Virginia horse country. Ellie Wood Baxter is a classic Virginia horsewoman who became a prolific show hunter rider partnering numerous champions across the northwest. In 1936, she won the coveted ASPCA MacLay Trophy and on four occasions captured the Piedmont Hunt Invitational at the Upperville Horse Show. Ellie Wood was considered the most famous lady amateur from the mid 1930’s to mid ’60’s. A lifelong foxhunter she first carried the Whip for the Farmington Hunt Club in her ’30’s. Ellie Wood was inducted into the Upperville Horse Show Hall of Fame and American and Virginia Horse Show Association Hunter Hall of Fame. In 2003 she was awarded the prestigious Pegasus Award for her lifelong contribution to the horse show industry. Today at the age of 98 Ellie still follows the Farmington Hunt in her car.
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