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All work and no play is good for neither man nor horse. Among the most eagerly awaited 

 events of the farmers' year are the point-to-point races organised by different hunts. The 

 heyday of steeple-chasing was in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when hard- 

 riding squires rode hell-for-leather across country, using surrounding church steeples as 

 their landmarks. 



