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Rouse
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steeplechases due to time and effort required to build cedar hurdles.
Rouse figured to change all that.
Steeplechasing
savior?
With the elimination of 90 percent of the ‘chases at the major tracks, pressure was on for hunt meets held in the countryside to pick up the sporting slack.
There was no money and little broad organization at the time; most East coast hunts hosted a meet in the 1970s, but there was no coordination between them. Coupled with the difficulty of building the hurdles, ’chasing was up against a wall.
Rouse imagined portable jumps that could be moved from one race meet to the next. While hunting in Ireland, he met Lord Harrington, master of the Limerick Hunt. Harrington had designed a series of jumps for the Limerick Point-to-Point. They were built on a steel frame and covered in plastic.
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