STIFF COUNTRY
The Grand National Steeplechase course mt Riccarton is acknowledged to be the stiffest jumping test of the winter reason. The distance of the race Is three miles and a half, and there are 21 fences to be jumped. The start of the race is in the front utraight near the falsa rail and the course is as follows:—
ft 1. Carriage paddock brush .. 4 In. 3. & 3. Stand double brush (each) 4 G 4. Cutts’s brush 5 0 5. Soil wall, ditch 3ft. Bin. .. 3 7 ♦J. Post and rails, ditch 3ft. Gin. 3 6 7. <fc 8. Kennels double brush; first fence, ditch 3ft. Din. 4 10 second fence 4 « 9. Sod wall, ditch, 3ft. 3in. .. 3 8 10. Top of straight brush .... 4 10 The first fence Is jumped three times &od the others twice .each..
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 268, 7 August 1943, Page 7
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140STIFF COUNTRY Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 268, 7 August 1943, Page 7
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