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Chase
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not mixed with brandy.” The jump, the most infamous obstacle in today’s Grand , National over the same course, has been known as Becher’s Brook ever since. American tradition
The jump racing sport moved to the colonies with English settlers in the 18th and 19th centimes. The first real steeplechase in North America at Ontario, Canada, on May 9, 1843, but the first truly organized steeplechasing in conventional form took place at Paterson, N.J., over three miles and 27 jumps. Jerome Park in New York held a steeplechase sweepstakes in 1869, and jump racing remained on the program there regularly, with Pimlico in Baltimore, Md., adding jump racing in 1873.
Timber racing was limited to America until just four years ago, when Konrad Goess Saurau attended the Maryland Hunt Cup and was intrigued by the sheer jumping ability required of America’s “timber toppers.”
So impressed with the jumpers, Saurau started his very own timber race, England’s only, in 1995. Though not yet sanctioned by the British Jockey Club, timber is being studied and may soon “count” towards a horse’s record.
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