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more tnan do,UUU Ians to the Virginia countryside. The 89th annual Far Hills meet draws more than 50,000 spectators to Moorland Farms in central Jersey.
“NSA has made something good out of a negative,” Allison said. Formerly, he explained, horsemen saw the two premier race meets on the fall calendar as running “against” each other, on the same mid-October weekend, splitting the small inventory of jockeys and horses into tiny slivers, with neither meet benefiting from the arrangement.
Neither race committee wanted to give up the attractive mid-autumn date; Raffetto felt powerless to enforce a change. “Lou turned it around” by creating the championship and arranging television coverage, Allison said.
As well, Raffetto had to coordinate race programs at both meets so conditions did not overlap.
The International program includes the $50,000 timber feature, the steeplethon, a maiden hurdle, an allowance hurdle and two
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