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fences.They had to be realistic."

Rouse had taken the bit in his teeth the winter before: while out foxhunting with Pennsylvania horsewoman Betty Bird in Ireland, he was introduced to a Lard Harrington.

Harrington was reputed to have designed a new, artificial hurdle, something he'd created to help cut labor costs fin* building the point-to-point course for his home hunt. Rouse visited his Limerick stable, where the plastic-steel contraption was housed.

"I could see the possibilities immediately," Rouse said.

He bought a couple of sections of the jump, shipped them home to Virginia and got to work finessing the design and finding

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