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In honor of its 40th running this year, the Winterthur Point-to-Point steeplechase meet presents a weekly Steeplechase Throwback Thursday feature – and we know this is a pretty recent throwback but it’s still fun to look back on two Winterthur experts squaring off over the course. We’ll look back on historic moments, horses and people in the jumping game – at least a few connected to the race meet on the grounds of the famed Winterthur Museum and Gardens just north of Wilmington, Del. This year’s races are Sunday, May 6. For more installments, click on the Throwback Thursday text tag at the end of the article. 

The Winterthur Point-to-Point runs for the 40th time this year and celebrates with an upgraded card of timber races and much more on the grounds of the Winterthur Museum and Gardens in Delaware May 6. An anniversary makes you look back, and this one is no different so we present 40 reasons to love the Winterthur Point-to-Point (in no apparent order):

Linda Gaudet remembers a “very plain brown-paper wrapper.” She also remembers hair-raising laps of the training track at The Meadowlands, a few stakes wins among nine total victories, a scary moment in a race – and, ultimately, a horse who found his calling.

Every January, it would happen to Duncan Patterson. His friends and business associates knew he did something with horses, knew the Winterthur Point-to-Point was coming up, knew they just had to ask him.

“Are you riding at Point-to-Point this year?”

Patterson would laugh and try to explain. First, there’s more than one point-to-point so don’t call it that. Second, nobody really knows if they’re riding in a horse race until it happens.

Back when the English Grand National from Aintree found its way to American television screens, back when the famous race was called “the ultimate test of a horse’s courage,” back before hand-held phones and texting and social media and account wagering and all the other trappings of progress, there was Red Rum. He might be … Read more

In honor of its 40th running this year, the Winterthur Point-to-Point steeplechase meet presents a weekly Steeplechase Throwback Thursday feature. We’ll look back on historic moments, horses and people in the jumping game – at least a few connected to the race meet on the grounds of the famed Winterthur Museum and Gardens just north of Wilmington, Del. This year’s races are Sunday, May 6.