An avid steeplechase rider, he is a former president of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association.

And by her early 20's, she became the first female professional steeplechase rider.

Mr. Strawbridge was a 1933 graduate of Princeton University and an amateur steeplechase rider.

He began his racing career as a steeplechase rider in 1966 before switching to training in 1971.

Nobody was injured, but two steeplechase riders were dumped going over jumps in the second race.

The young woman took her horse over the bushes like a steeplechase rider, then came plunging down the bank.

"You hate to see a horse get hurt," said Schulhofer, who began training in 1962 after his career as a steeplechase rider was cut short by injury.

A steeplechase rider when young, before her crippling accident, she later took over her parents' thoroughbred horse racing and breeding interests.

Barrett was in the 15th Hussars and had been a successful steeplechase rider.

What does an aging, injured steeplechase rider named Derek Franklin know about such things as peridots, chrysoberyls, garnets and aquamarines?