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By BETSY BRANSCOME
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Steeplechasing is a tough game: simultaneously, a horseman must have himself and his mount both physically and mentally fit for the task at hand. A generous helping of racing luck is always helpful, but nothing substitutes for good old-fashioned elbow grease and hard work on the nuts-andbolts basics.
It is a great tribute to good horsemanship, then, when an amateur ascends to the top of the game, captures a series division or garners a year-end award. Doubly impressive is a man, or woman, who at once combines a job in the working world and championship ’chasing.
Especially a plaudit to the overall excellence of Virginia’s point-to-point season are 1995’s year-end winners. Seven of 10 divisions on the 1995 Virginia Point-to-Point Association calendar, not counting the junior series events, were championed by parttime horsemen, ones who daily combine business with pleasure.
Juggling home life with a fulltime job is task enough for most, but to that seven of Virginia’s point-to-point champs added stable chores, horse training, personal fitness, travel time, diet restrictions
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