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a Mr. O’Callaghan and a Mr Blake. No record exists of the outcome of the chase.
Today, the sport of steeplechasing is more refined hut the principle remains the same. Horse and rider must go from the start to the finish jumping prescribed obstacles along the way.
The first record of a steeplechase in America was in 1844 at a course near Hoboken, N.J. Won by a Canadian horse named Hops, the race was run in a series of four-mile heats over fourfoot hurdles. This grueling test mercifully disappeared after its second year.
In 1846, a steeplechase race was run at the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, near today’s Fauquier Springs Country Club southwest of Warrenton. It was an one-mile track that included two ditches and two stiff five-foot timber fences, incorrectly described at the time as “hurdles.”
These races took place annually through 1849.
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