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1838 — Canada hosts continent’s first recorded steeplechase
• 1859 — Rose Tree, Pa. hunt club holds a point-topoint meet
• 1864 — Hurdle races are held on the main dirt track at Saratoga Springs, N Y. Tracks in California, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Tennessee follow suit.
• 1865 — The first “real” (read across natural country) U.S. steeplechase held
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