The association is at risk of losing its liquor license from the state Department of Alcohol Beverage Control because of charges of noise and disorder, particularly at the spring event popular among college students.
The association presented its case Monday, a month after the ABC agency gave its arguments, including a videotape showing several intoxicated students at the April 27 races.
The same subject took on a brighter cast as Foxfield presented its own tape at the hearing.
The film featured shots of horses and security personnel interspersed with undergraduate and graduate University of Virginia students socializing and drinking. Few, however, were obviously drunk.
The Foxfield video presented a starkly different portrait of the April 27 races from the video shot by ABC agents.
That video, which was shown in excerpts Monday, shows an inebriated student eating grass, another young man being loaded into an ambulance and yet another handcuffed after stealing a police officer's bicycle.
"We're having a steeplechase sporting event, not a social event," Foxfield President Benjamin Dick said during the hearing, which likely will conclude today.
There was much evidence to the contrary, however, even in Foxfield's own tape, which was edited down from three hours of footage. The unedited and edited versions were both entered into evidence.
Video of the undergraduate-heavy "orange" section showed students drinking, mugging for the camera and cheering for horses.
Videographer John Golden described the scene: "I saw one girl slightly staggering, but her boyfriend was guiding her to the car, and they were headed home."
A chorus of young men shouted, "Girls gone wild!" upon seeing the camera, referring to the popular videos that feature college girls baring their breasts.
On the video, Golden asked a few race-goers if they'd seen any horses during the event, and they answered in the affirmative.
Dick pointed out several times an older couple who spent much of the day in the orange section, amid the students.
He also focused on a collision between horses in which two animals and two jockeys fell to the ground. Dick emphasized the speed of rescue workers' response.
Other points of focus included the "Savvy Fox" designated-driver tent and a caravan of buses, both meant to discourage drunk driving.
The video also showed, to a lesser extent, the "green" and "purple" sections, the former peopled with mostly graduate students and the latter with families.
But following the screening, James Schliessmann, the assistant attorney general representing ABC, pointed out scenes edited from the tape shown at the hearing.
A young woman urinating in a ditch and a young man passed out by a Dumpster were among the sights spared viewers at the hearing, as was the following quote: "Alcoholism - that's what it's about," Schliessmann said.
In response, Dick said, "I'd like to show for the record that young people occasionally say things they regret the next day."
Dick also presented segments of the ABC tape, along with commentary by a representative of the races' private security firm.
Tim Haymore of American Security Group pointed out inebriated race-goers that he either assisted or would have approached, while Dick emphasized that ABC agents who were filming the event did not help the intoxicated students.
Haymore said the "worst cases" he saw on the tape included a young man who drank a fifth of cognac before attending the races and the man who was placed in an ambulance at the end of the day. They were both hospitalized but were not charged with alcohol offenses.
Several Foxfield supporters spoke at the hearing, as Schliessmann kept up a drumbeat of protest, calling the testimony cumulative.
But hearing officer Clara A. Williamson allowed the testimony, albeit briefly.
"I've seen some people I thought were intoxicated, but I've never seen any disorder," said Jane Fogleman, who lives across from the site and is a former race official.
A petition signed by 120 UVa law school students supporting Foxfield's liquor license, however, was not allowed into evidence after the petition's organizer, Wyeth Ruthven, admitted under cross examination that students had signed it before the hearing began.
"No bias, no vested interest," Schliessmann quipped.
The hearing will continue today, featuring testimony from Sally H. Thomas, chairwoman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and Foxfield personnel, among others.
Closing arguments are likely to occur today as well, Dick said, with a ruling coming in the near future.