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“We’ve done a much better job of getting people out from Washington, D. C., and Fairfax the last few years,” says Douglas Lees, former chairman of the Warrenton Hunt point-to-point. “Our gate has really picked up. We got on TV one year which really helped us a lot.”
Steeplechasing’s growth is due in large part to the increased number of sponsors and the corresponding increase in money that the sport has been able to attract in the last few years.
Putting a finger on the cause of point-to-point racing’s growth is not so easy, however.
Part of the reason is undoubtedly the colorful people that pointto-point racing attracts. Not even steeplechasing could boast of having riders like Randy Rouse, a 60-plus
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