They don’t call the Far Hills Races steeplechasing’s championship day for nothing, and this Saturday year-end honors are on the line at Moorland Farm in the bucolic borough in Somerset County, N.J.
At Liverpool, England, they bring in the spring with the Grand National Steeplechase. The course is 4½mi. long; there are 30 jumps on it; the race is worth £5,000 and extras to the winner. On a cold ...