Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church

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Wofford, Jim (23 December 2008). "Jim Wofford: Short Format "Dumbs Down" Eventing". Practical Horseman. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017 . Retrieved 10 October 2017. Not all are. As Richard Holloway points out, visits to cathedrals are on the rise. That’s understandable: they are, after all, awe-inspiring in scale even now, as well as being vast repositories of our history – the crypt at St Paul’s Cathedral is nothing less, says Ross, than England’s Valhalla. (Did you realise that the cathedral it replaced after the Great Fire of London was once the world’s biggest? Me neither). Steeplechase Park, a New York City amusement park from 1897 to 1964, named for its racing rollercoaster

Inaugural Carolina Cup] Fox hunting and steeplechasing came to America with the Irish and English who settled in the eastern part of the United States. Even before the Civil War there were recognized race meetings in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, and racing soon spread to the Carolinas and Georgia. As always, there is some disagreement about who did what first, but there is a record of a jumping race being held in Washington, D.C. as early as 1834. At about the same time, under the English influence, steeplechasing was gaining a foothold in eastern Canada.

I am as far away from a believer in any sort of religion as one can possible be, but I do worship at the alter of church/church yard architecture and the world such buildings inhabit. So this book was the equivalent to the bible for me. It took me from war art of the 1920’s to water ceremonies at Glastonbury via the matriarch of London herself, St Paul’s. Lindsay Littleson is a primary school teacher in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Since taking up writing for children in early 2014 she has published a short story with Walker Books, in addition to winning the Kelpies Prize with her first children’s novel, The … Fascinating . . . Ross makes a likeably idiosyncratic guide and one finishes the book feeling strangely optimistic about the inevitable.’– The Observer

This is a truly wonderful book, every bit as good as Tomb With A View. The book - a tour of British churches and the people who look after them - has empathy in spades and is an engaging read from beginning to end. Unlike in most countries where nearly all of the horses used for jump racing are thoroughbreds, many of the horses in French jump racing are AQPS (Autre Que Pur Sang), a breed of horse now known as "French Chasers" developed in France crossing thoroughbreds with saddle horses and other local breeds. These horses have competed and won the Grand National, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Pardubice. In 2021, jumps racing in Australia was only run in Victoria and South Australia, though, contrary to common belief, only New South Wales had banned it. All six states and Australian Capital Territory have some history of jumps racing and the states that stopped conducting jumps racings were based on economic decisions. The NSW government officially shut down jumps racing in 1997 after a bill was put through linked with bird tethering, but by that stage there had not been regular jumps race meetings in NSW since World War II, when it was ceased due to the war efforts, except for a handful of exhibition events on an annual basis in the 1980s. [16] In my own experience, the one church where past and present dissolve into each other most completely is Old St Paul’s in Edinburgh, of which Holloway was once rector, about which he wrote so compellingly in his memoir Leaving Alexandria. Ross does it full justice too, helped by excellent interviews with both Alison Watt, whose superlative painting Still hangs above the altar in the church’s Warrior’s Chapel, and Holloway himself. Personally, it’s art, not faith that imbues the place with such a deep sense of spirituality: the depth of Watt’s art and Holloway’s own writing, or the story I’ve heard him tell of his predecessor as rector, a double Military Cross winner in the First World War who was known for his compassion towards the poor and vulnerable.Jumps racing to be removed from South Australia's racing calendar from next year". www.abc.net.au/. 17 April 2022. New legal challenge looms as racing rebels reject 'flawed' Oakbank ballot". www.indaily.com.au. 7 July 2022.