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By Bktsy Parkkr
Times New spapors Staff Writer
Virginia's point-to-point circuit has lonfj been admired in the steepleehasing industry for its wealth of opportunity and thoughtful calendar arrangement: racing begins in February, with eight point-to-point meets preceding the first of four National Steeplechase Association-sanctioned meets offered in Virginia, and even those are interspersed with another five point-to-points.
Horsemen can start young horses and teach inexperienced riders on the typically low-key "pots and pans circuit" of the point-to-points (so called because of the silver trophies, not monetary prizes, given to winners i before going on to the rich NSA circuit that moves around Virginia and the U.S.
This year. Virginia's circuit is being used as the model for a new. national, point-to-point association, designed to expand
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