steeplechasing

Steeplechasing has a place on the menu of New York racing.

Thomas Hitchcock (1860-1941) is known as the father of American steeplechasing.

A new dawn of steeplechasing has finally arrived.

This causes problems in racing, eventing, Steeplechasing, and polo.

In the United States, there are two forms of Steeplechasing (or jumps racing).

Steeplechasing is -" he waved a hand dismissively "- how should I put it?

Steeplechasing is a sport generally related to the well-heeled, and the Pattersons are apparently of that world.

I said, 'For someone who hardly knew steeplechasing existed twenty-four hours ago, you've wasted no time.'

However, the lure of steeplechasing proved irresistible and by the 1920s he was a successful point-to-point jockey.

Many of the discontinued events were similar to modern ones but at different lengths, especially in the steeplechasing, hurdling, and racewalking disciplines.

You had another smash, hadn't you, besides the one in the war--steeplechasing, wasn't it?"

He was hell on horseback, she knew; a steeplechasing, Indian pigsticking fool from a long line of English career officers.

Point-to-point, with its connotation of upper-class steeplechasing, had quite a different meaning to the patrolling officer, whose work-life it structured.

What steeplechasing is, though, is the private hobby of a circle of wealthy folks whose families happen to be well connected within the power structure of New York racing.

As steeplechasing entered its modern era, the 'Cheltenham Festival' became the pinnacle of the season, providing a series of championship races which virtually all top horses would be targeted at.

This race and the meeting eventually developed into the Cheltenham Festival and the organisers were part of the founding of organised steeplechasing through the Grand National Hunt Committee.

Looking at the 97-by-203 inches of Krasner's "Seasons," lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, we are aware of a pandemonium of ideas and a steeplechasing of symbols.

Golden Miller also provided her with her solitary victory in the Grand National in 1934, still the only occasion any horse has won the two major prizes of British steeplechasing in the same season.

Steeplechasing has sent some pretty good people to the horse industry: Bowes Bond, Sidney Watters, Downey Bonsal, Stuart Janney, as well as the ones mentioned above and many more.

Organised steeplechasing in Britain began with annual events being staged cross country over a number of fields, hedges and brooks, the earliest most notable of these being the St Albans Steeplechase (first run in 1830).