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Harrinton’s fences, Rouse realized that they would put the jumps in the phrase “have jumps, will travel.”
He bought one of the steel frames and the plastic that accompanied it, shipping both to the states. Jack Cooper, then NSA vice-president, “confirmed the usefulness of the plastic fences,” Rouse said, and he went forward with his project.
A sheet metal shop in Maryland was contracted to duplicate the frames and eventually four or five jumps were produced. They were used for the first time in America at the Fairfax races in 1973, but not without causing considerable controversy.
As Rouse remembered, “I announced to the jockeys, Today, we’re going to run over a new fence.’ We almost had a revolt!”
The plastic hurdles were not popular with the jockeys that first race meet, but Rouse asked them, “Do me a favor. Just try it. If we have any problems, well discontinue.”
He recalled that the leading jockey of the day came personally to tell him, on behalf of all the jockeys, that they wouldn’t ride over the new fences.
Rouse responded, “ “Well, then we aren’t going to have any races — those are the only jumps we’ve got!’
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