All in all, she appeared to have recovered from the blow of last fortnight, when her other steeplechaser, Monaveen, broke his leg in a race and had to be destroyed.
The polls showed them comfortably ahead of their opponents; Haughey, 55, had sprinted into the lead like an Irish steeplechaser in a field of Clydesdales.
Major Noel Furlong's Reynoldstown, a big black steeplechaser, bred by his modestly well-to-do owner in Ireland, was ridden by Major Furlong's son, a onetime officer in the Ninth .
Ron Mann in Boston Globe That was something we said to him,said Mann, the track and field and cross-country coach at the University of Louisville. "We said, `Cory you're perfectly suited to be a steeplechaser.' He liked it and he's had quite a bit of success."