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point-lo-point racing continued as the nursery of the sport, particularly centered in Virginia, steeplechasing at major tracks climbed to its zenith. By 1968 there was scarcely a day at New York race tracks that did not include a jumping race.
Four years later, the New York Racing Association eliminated nearly 100 jumping races from schedules at Belmont Park and Aqueduct, and reduced the number of steeplechases at Saratoga as well. NYRA officials felt that parimutuel handle was inadequate to merit continuation.
The steeplechase world feared these actions would sound the death knell for the sport, but in fact, the reverse happened. •Chairmen of hunt meetings* around the country girded their loins and, following theexam
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