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at Paterson, N.J. The course included stone walls, ditches and water jumps.
• Jerome Park in New York is the first formal racetrack to host a steeplechase race.
• 1882 — At Woodbine in Canada, the Woodbine Steeplechase Handicap is North America’s first stakes race over jumps
• 1894 — The first Maryland Hunt Cup is run; this is the oldest steeplechase still being con
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