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orary secretary of the Virginia Point-to-Point Advisory Council.
“I think it grows every year, it seems to be a contagious disease. People who own horses come to the races, see how much fun they are and say they want to try it. Our editor at The Chronicle, John Strassburger, for example, has got a horse in training for the flat races now after a couple of seasons reporting on the races.”
Horses, owners and riders are not the only quantities that have increased at point-to-point meets in the last few years. Crowds have also grown quite considerably. Once hunt races were limited to hunt members and a few of their friends. Now, however, crowds of 6,000 to 10,000 are not uncommon at many of
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