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Joe Aitcheson won one of the first races over national fences.
Ridas reported success. no horse—of 19 to start over hurdles— fell that day The portable fences had been accepted.
Rouse drew a deep breath. His gamble had paid off Steepfechasing was saved. Today. And tomorrow.
Headed south from Saratoga to the National Steeplechase Association (formerly NSHA) headquarters in north Maryland, NSA director Ball Gallo talked on his ceQ phone about the jost-conduded meet at the upstate New York track. The
included nine hurdle races (two or three each week.)
"We had foil, competitive fields in every race;" Gallo said, pleased. "Zero folk, (heat racing.” New Tfork. racing Gallo said, indeed had been saved by the 1973 invention of the national fence
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