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STEEPLECHASE PREFERABLE AS SPECTACLE. "I would rather any day." says Horatio Bottomle.v. the Knglish M. P.. "watch a selling steeplechase than the Derby. Awl I have often olwerved that the general public, and especially the women, take far keener interest in jumping than in flat racing. Just compare the faces of the crowd at Ascot during the race for the Gold Cup with those at the Grand National, or go to France, even in mid-summer, and see how the Grand Steeplechase de Paris dwarfs the Grand Prix. No, there is nothing like jumping."
