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By BETSY BURKE
Arundel Newspapers Special Writer
For three straight years and and many previous ones, the top steeplechasers in the United States have been foreign-bred.
Proof positive of the influence foreign shores have on American steeplechasing are Eclipse awards over the years — the memorable Jimmy Lorenzo (GB [bred in Great Britian]), Inlander (GB) and Morley Street (GB).
The list of foreign winners of America’s top ’chasing prize continues as the purse money attached to jump racing continues its upward spiral. For instance, ’90 Breeder’s Cup winner Morley Street (GB) netted $125,000; Irish-bred mare Grabel (IRE) won $750,000 in the inaugural Dueling Grounds ’chase; top novice Bokoro (FR) took home the ’90 Queen Mother Supreme Novice trophy and $60,000.
Middleburg trainer Tom Pratt points out in a May 6, 1989, Blood-Horse interview the lure of American purses.
“In this country purses are getting so good that people in the steeplechasing world don’t want
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