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Steeptechasing may not
have started in Virginia,
but it took a strong foothold when the sport shipped over to the colonies with English settlers in the 1600s. Since then, horse racing has flourished - in Virginia and is spreading throughout the ; nation, steeplechasing spread as for south as Florida, west to Tennessee and north to New York, but remains centralized in the Old Dominion.
The Fauquier Times- ' T Democrat (aid, before that the Fauquier Democrat) has provided insightful, in depth coverage of racing since NS creation more than 100 years ago. Flipping through the pages of papers from the ’30s and '40s, it is easy to trace * horse sports and their importance to the county's . economy. However, few *; photographs remain in the Tknes-oemocrat fifes from those days, as the printing
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