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At the point-to-points the timber courses are usually similar to hunting country with rolling hills and ditches, and a variety of obstacles including stone walls, board fences, and chicken coops as well as post and rail and aiken fences. A particularly good example is the Piedmont course.
At the hunt meetings, however, the fences are more apt to be all post and rail at greater heights. Timber races are run at longer distances than hurdle races-from three to four miles with again roughly six fences per mile}
Because the point-to-points are closer to the original idea of steeplechasing, there are many more timber races than hurdle races or flat races, while at the national hunt meets the reverse is true with three times as many hurdle races as there are timber or flat races.
Flat Races
Flat races are often described in race programs only as being “on the turf’, and are run at distances from four furlongs to two miles.
Outstanding Races
At the Virginia point-topoints the most challenging races are the timber races. And of the 30 or more that are contested, a few have become classics
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