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• 1910 - February 10 - The first Farmers Day celebration is sponsored by Charles Pfizer and hosted by his hunt club, the Essex Fox Hounds to thank local farmers for use of their land, draws 300 men. The Farmers Day event was the precursor to today's Far Hills Race Meeting.
• 1915 - October 23 - The New Jersey Hunt Cup and the Essex Hounds Club run its first official steeplechase. The next year the event moves to Froh-Heim in Far Hills, the estate of Grant Schley, which later becomes Moorland Farms. Now called The Far Hills Race Meeting, it is still held the last Saturday of every October, rain or shine.