More recent findings suggest that the mission may have been on the New Kent side of Diascund Creek near its confluence with the Chickahominy River.
In the summer of 2005 he was working as an apprentice jockey at Colonial Downs racetrack in New Kent County, Virginia.
New Kent County (established in 1654 from York County) was where Gideon Macon built his home in 1680 on Macon's Island.
In the summer of 2007, he ran second in both the grade three Colonial Turf Cup at one mile and three sixteenths (9.5 furlongs) in mid-June and the Virginia Derby at one mile and a quarter (10 furlongs) in Mid-July, both run at Colonial Downs in New Kent County, Virginia on the turf course.
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In New Kent County, Virginia they are abundant in sandy fields near the Chickahominy River, and great numbers are turned up by plows in the spring.