steeplechase
noun
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TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
Margaret Howard Worrall, who was born the day of the 1942 Maryland Hunt Cup and became the first woman to head the annual steeplechase event, died of heart failure Dec. 20 at her Monkton home.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
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steeplechase
noun
so called from the fact that originally the races were across the countryside in a direct line toward a distant church steeple sighted rising above the other buildings
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