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American steeplechasing traces its lineage to England and Ireland, but owes its life to nine men from New York.
August Belmont and eight friends founded the National Steeplechase Association Feb. 15,1895 to organize the sport.
Racing itself, spawned from the foxhunting field, occurred earlier, but not under NSA sanction. Meets took place on Long Island and in northern New Jersey before spreading south to the Carolinas and Tennessee.
In Europe, racing started much earlier. The first recorded steeplechase occurred in 1752 in County Cork, Ireland. A horseman named O’Callaghan and Edmund Blake engaged in a match race, covering about four and a half miles from Buttevant Church to St Mary’s in Doneraile.
Since church steeples were the most prominent, and tallest, landmarks on the landscape, the sport took its name from this simple “chase to the steeple.”
History did not record the
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