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By Betsy Parker
Tunes Newspapers Staff Writer
Though steeplechasing
sprang from the Irish
foxhunting field and
gained early popularity in 19th-century England, it followed settlers to the American colony and was warmly embraced in the States.
Author Hay Woolfe Jr. quotes turf historian Walter Vosburgh about the origins of organized American ‘chasing in his book "Steeplechasing":
The 'chase was a successes,* Vosburgh wrote of an early steeplechase offered at a New York flat track. It was the allabsorbing topic for weeks. The Jockey Club, though a highly conservative body responded by hanging up another thousand to
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