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Chase
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Near Boston, the Country Club race meeting was founded in 1880. The Meadow Brook Club and Rockaway Club, both on Long Island, began steeplechase races in 1883.
Down South, where foxhunting was well established, there was steeplechase racing at Pimlico in Baltimore in 1873; the race for the Silver Punch Bowl was run in 1875 near Warrenton; the Maryland Hunt Cup was first run in 1894; the Grand National Pointto-Point in 1898, and My Lady’s Manor in 1909. The latter three events still exist on today’s National Steeplechase Association schedule.
Steeplechasing grew in popularity as foxhunting clubs annually ran a series of races known then, as they are now, as hunt meetings. Proportionately, the sport nourished at established race tracks. When the Saratoga racecourse in upstate New York programmed the first Travers Stakes in 1864, the race card included a two-mile steeplechase.
At Jerome Park in the Bronx, N.Y., the real beginning of organized steeplechasing in the United States began with a race in the fall of 1869. Well received by an overfiowing crowd, the popular races
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