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By CLIVE CARNIE
AiaaM Nitppn SUIT Writer
The sport of steeplechasing which has become a tradition in Virginia traces its beginnings back to England in the eighteenth century.
The story varies from teller to teller, but essentially the sport began as a race between several foxhunters following a morning of (probably unsuccessful) hunting.
The horsemen would often challenge one another as to who could get to a certain point first. Church steeples being the highest reference points on the rural landscapes of those times, the cry was often to race to “yon steeple”, hence a steeple race, or chase.
En route to the church steeple the foxhunters went over, under or through every obstacle in their path, from which performance the fences at modern day steeplechase courses are derived.
There are three types of race at a modem steeplechase: timber, hurdle or brush, and flat.
A timber race is usually at least three miles long, pitting the horses over about 16 timber, or wooden fences, during that
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