Saddle up for race through history - looking back at the world’s first steeplechase

It was a wager made in 1752 by huntsmen Edmund Blake and Cornelius O’Callaghan to see which of their horses would gallop fastest the four miles between the steeples of St John’s Church in Buttevant and the Church of St Leger in Doneraile.
History does not record who won the bet but an account of the race was made and went viral in an 18th century way — so much so, that the account of the steeplechase made its way to the library of the O’Briens of Dromoland Castle.