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square on top and something like eight of 12 starters fe&r Brown added. Drops, the Canal Turn, Liverpools, loose horses and big water jumps not withstanding, it is tine same upright stiffness of England’s Grand National coarse at Aintree that brings down the majority of starters there.
Even with a slightly softened top edge, horses back then had to be able to bloody well jump, and riders had to do more than just sit in balance and allow the horse to find his way something to a certain extent possible over the modem national fence. Brown said that horses can all but step in the tarp-covered rubber roll and still manage to launch themselves over
Brown also said that he was on the National Steeplechase board (in 1973) when executive director Jack Cooper broached the subject of national fences. “At that point, my eyes glazed and 1 started thinking of my golf game,” Brown recalled of those long-ago days in the board room. “The real advantage to national fences, once they were adopted, was that we could offer steeplechasing any»knp’,TnfhiHing| and importantly on turf courses, between fiat races, at mayor tracks.
Kip Elser, now a trainer based in Camden, S.C., was among the last to ride over the old-style fences, and was actually the winner of the first race over w«*inn«l fences — at tho Fairfax Races at Reston in the fell of 1973. Daring his riding days, Elser, now married to Helen Richards of Marshall, also had the somewhat dubious honor; as son of the company’s founder; of wearing the Jcee Bear costume between his race rides
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