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ing takes place at Radnor, Pa.
• 1965 — Mary Stephenson’s Jay Trump, with Virginian Tommy Smith up, becomes the first U.S.-owned and -ridden winner of the English Grand National.
• 1965 — Racing’s Hall of Fame votes in its first two steeplechasers, Good and Plenty and Jolly Roger.
• 1965 — Virginia’s Marion duPont Scott is named the first recipient of the F. Ambrose Clark award.
• 1869 — Kathy Kusner, based in Virginia, is the first licensed female jockey since WWII.
• 1973 — Fairfax master of hounds Randy Rouse is instrumental in introducing the new plastic, and portable, “national fence” to the sport. This invention enables major tracks to resume steeplechasing and allows new, start-up meets around the mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
• 1975 — Barbara Kraeling McWade becomes the first woman to win a sanctioned steeplechase, at Radnor, Pa. with her horse Fuzz Ears.
• 1990 — NSA purses exceed $4 million for the first time.
• 1999 — NSA purses will exceed a record $4.5 million
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