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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON

Arundel Newspapers Special Writer

A decade ago, if you announced that you were going tailgating, friends would lift an eyebrow and wonder why you’d want to risk a dented fender and a string of shouted expletives for following too closely behind an unsuspecting motorist.

But today, with the surging popr ularity of horse sports and the point-to-point circuit that heralds the arrival of spring, say you’re going tailgating and instead of lifting eyebrows, friends will offer to join you in lifting a fork or a stirrup cup.

For hordes of socializers who crowd the grounds from Casanova to Fairfax, the back end of the station wagon provokes as much interest as the hindquarters of a horse and the action around the picnic basket overshadows the action around the paddock. For. those folks, tailgating is the point in point-topoints.

And nowhere does the tailgating crowd make a bigger grab for the spotlight than at Casanova, site of the Harden and Weaver Tailgate Handicap. The morning stars at

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