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Tradition
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by fans and horsemen alike in the new world. Flat tracks in New York, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Tennessee offer hurdle racing on their main dirt courses starting in 1864, with the first official, “real,” cross-country steeplechase being held in Paterson, N.J. in 1865.
Virginia, too, was part of the American steeplechasing tradition. At the old White Sulphur Springs club near Warrenton (now home to the Fauquier Springs Country Club), a mile-long track was laid out in nearby fields across the Rappahannock River.
In a 1940s booklet by the late Alexander Mackay-Smith, the writer noted that at the first Sulphur Springs race meeting “a mare named Victoria collapsed ... after running in a race at that meeting and was buried near the judge’s stand. The course was named Victoria Race Course in her honor.” Though records are sketchy, Mackay-Smith
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