inductees

Class of 1999

	Peggy Augustus Peggy Augustus was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but currently resides in Keswick, Virginia. She was active as an owner, trainer, and rider of show horses from 1950 to 1965, and won every major championship throughout the United States and Canada. Augustus won the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, Devon Horse Show, Royal Winter Fair, and Pennsylvania National Horse Show. She has shown many horses, but the best of her own were Waiting Home, Little Sailor, Defense, and Sutton Place. After her retirement from showing, Augustus turned her attention to breeding and racing thoroughbreds. She has bred many winning horses including, Eclipse Award Winner “Johnny D” (Champion Grass Horse), a yearling colt that sold for four million dollars at the Saratoga sale. It was the second highest price in the history of the sale. Augustus also bred a yearling filly that sold for a world record of $2,100,000. She is the only person to have bred and sold four yearlings at the Saratoga sale that went on to win over a million dollars each. Husband, one of Augustus’ horses, was the winner of the $1,000,000 Rothmanns International. Crown Silver was owned, bred, and raced by Augustus, and was the Champion Virginia Two Year Old Filly. She owned and raced Beaming Bride, twice Champion Virginia Broodmare, and bred all of her foals. Augustus also bred Semoran, which was the 1996 and 1997 Champion Virginia Bred Male, 3 and Up. A testament to Augustus’ breeding skills, one of her horses, Waiting Home, is in the Virginia Horse Show Hall of Fame and the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame. Augustus is an inductee of the Virginia Horse Show Hall of Fame and the National Horse Show Hall of Fame, as well as a Living Legend of the National Horse Show in 1996. She was elected into the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame in 1997, its second year of existence. Augustus was also featured in Sports Illustrated in 1957. (To Sports Inductees List)