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/uicneson was one oi oniy a few riders to specialize both over timber and brush fences. “Only me and Paddy and Tommy [Walsh] rode regularly over both,” Aitcheson said. “Timber riders were more usually amateurs, and most brush jocks didn’t want to take the time to go to the hunt meets.” Most of his successes came during a time that the New York Racing Association held two months worth of steeplechase meetings in the regular meets at Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga. “Going to hunt meets took a lot of time, getting there and riding the whole card,” Aitcheson explained. “In New York, you’d live nearby, come in, ride a single race, win if you’re lucky and then go to Esposito’s. It was a great life.”
It was an especially good life if you were at the top of the riders’ table, as Aitcheson regularly was. “He took Jot* of outside rides,”
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