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Speak ‘racing’
like a professional
Bogin at tho beginning: It makes it much easier. Tb learn the lingo of the chase, consider its very roots.
• Steeplechasing was invented in 1752 in Ireland when two foxhunters disputed the relative speed and talent of their favorite horses. “Prove it." one said famously to the other.
They raced from the St. Buttevant churchyard, where they first argued, to the visible — but miles-off — St. Albans Church, ‘chasing across country from steeple to steeple, literally, and inventing the sport of racing over obstacles.
• From its infancy in Britain, steeplechasing quickly took root and sailed with English settlers to the new American colonies, finding firm footing here as Virginia fanners found horse racing, and steeplechasing in particular, a fun offseason (fall and early spring, non-harvest times) distraction.
• Steeplechasing is the umbrella term for any racing over obstacles.
See Lingo, Page 22
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