On this Memorial Day weekend, we're usually celebrating races at the NSA's home track at Fair Hill. Instead today we're celebrating an NSA Legend.
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Discover the easy -- and enduring -- style of steeplechasing maven Beverly 'Peggy' Steinman, a leading lady of the turf
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Through almost six decades of steeplechase involvement, Peggy Steinman herself has hardly changed.
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Tod Marks
) But the longtime National Steeplechase Association board member and executive officer has spearheaded many changes into the sport, promoting safety and expansion, with implementation of NSA’s distaff hurdle division as one of the most important developments she helped create.
In the top 20 all-time sport leaders with $1.5 million in earnings since 1970, this year marks the first time since 1977 Steinman isn’t on an NSA committee of some sort. She says it “feels a little weird not to be involved,” directly. Though, to be honest, she is intimately involved, on the board of the
Middleburg Spring Races, one of two spring meets hoping to "go" in June in one of the weirdest years on record. For decades she’s provided powerful support – donating money when requested, lending her considerable business savvy where appropriate and jumping in at the boots-on-the-ground level as needed.
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In 1991, Steinman was recognized with the Ambrose Clark Award, and NSA director of racing Bill Gallo dedicated the 2019 NSA yearbook to her.
“Never with an intent to draw attention to herself,” Gallo wrote, Steinman has given back to the sport “always with the hope that steeplechasing would benefit.
“NSA has been the beneficiary of her passion and kindness for a long time, and her impact will be felt forever.”
Though she doesn’t believe she’s driven by the feminist consciousness, Steinman has become one of steeplechasing's leading ladies -- and leaders, possessing uncompromising intellect and levelheaded mien in the largely male-dominated sport. She's learned to be blunt and direct, though Steinman retains a sense of fairness and overriding loyalty she developed at the confluence of a strong family dynamic.
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Peggy Steinman and NSA director of racing Bill Gallo in
April of 2019.
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Christian Frederick Steinman was born in Dresden, in the German state of Saxony in 1711. He immigrated to America in 1749. The Steinmans had settled in south-central Pennsylvania by the early 1800s.
Christian’s great-great grandson Andrew Jackson Steinman started the family legacy in newspapering when he became publisher of the Lancaster Intelligencer in 1866. His sons John Frederick and James Hale – Peggy’s father – took over the broadsheet in 1917.
The Intelligencer, later the Intelligencer-Journal, is today published as
LNP.
Hale Steinman loved Lancaster and threw himself into charitable causes supporting residents in need with as much vigor as his business interests. He founded Lancaster’s Boys Club – today the
Boys and Girls Club, in 1939. Steinman family foundations have supported more than 330 local clubs, schools, programs and hospitals to the tune of over $79 million since the ’40s.
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Hale Steinman. Photo courtesy of Peggy Steinman.
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In 2010, Peggy Steinman took over as chair of
Steinman Enterprises, the family’s publishing and business group that produces
LNP,
Lancaster Farming and Lancaster County Weeklies plus controls Steinman Coal Co. and
The Pressroom restaurant in Lancaster. Like she’s stepped away from active management of steeplechasing, she now serves Steinman Enterprises as ex-officio.
The colonial revivalist
Conestoga House where Steinman grew up had been purchased and refurbished by her father Hale in 1927. Conestoga House was originally a tavern on the Conestoga wagon trail, along Conestoga Creek a couple miles out of town. She moved out in March when the historic mansion was
sold to a Lancaster foundation for weddings and events.
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The
Conestoga wagon
was designed by German craftsmen around what became Lancaster, Pennsylvania, near Conestoga Creek (also called the Conestoga River) in the late 1700s.
Conestoga Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River that flows through the center of Lancaster County. The word “Conestoga” derives from the Iroquois language, meaning “people of the cabin pole.” Before the arrival of European settlers in the region, the Conestoga were a Native American tribe also known as the Susquehanna.
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The Steinman family’s coal mining interests are in northwest Pennsylvania and southwest Virginia. There’s even a town, more of a sleepy crossroads, named for them. Steinman, Virginia is in the wild, rural mountains near Virginia’s border with West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Growing up privileged in the early 1900s came with plenty of benefits, including a stable and riding horses on the Steinman estate. The whole family rode, Steinman says, and horses played a role in her young life.
She got her first pony when she was 4.
Hale Steinman was a master of surprises, Steinman says of her creative and fun-loving father. He secretly set up a makeshift, temporary stall in the historic house’s formal first-floor library late in the night on Christmas eve, 1938, lining it deeply with golden straw and sneaking in his youngest daughter’s gift before daybreak Christmas day.
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“I came down that morning, and there a pony in the house,” Steinman recalls equal measure bewilderment and excitement. Black-and-white pinto “Skippy” became her constant companion the next few years as they adventured the neighborhood and practiced in the show arena across the street. It fueled a lifelong love for horses, Steinman says.
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The advantaged upbringing didn’t mean it was all fun and games: Steinman got her first paying job at 6, operating the elevator at the family newspaper’s brand-new West King Street building. It was five stories, well within the scope of the pre-schooler.
She was paid $1 per week, and the duty taught Steinman, early, she says, the importance of “always doing a good job.”
Steinman went to high school at
Foxcroft in Middleburg, Virginia, riding with the
Middleburg Hunt with school founder, Miss Charlotte Haxall Noland, and hunting in Pennsylvania when home on breaks.
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She studied at
Mount Vernon Junior College in Washington, D.C., returning to Lancaster to join the newspaper staff in the mid-1950s. She wrote a political column and helped run the business. Steinman started riding with trainer Eggie Mills in Pennsylvania, through him meeting judge and trainer Paul Fout at a horse show in the early 1960s to create a true pivot-point in her equine trajectory.
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Her one and only: Trainer Paul Fout
Middleburg, Virginia trainer Paul Fout managed Steinman’s jump and flat horses until his death in 2005 at age 78 when son Doug took the reins.
A board member of the Virginia Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, Paul Fout was a past chairman, president and manager of the
Middleburg Spring Race Association
, naturally leading to Steinman’s involvement with the meet. She still serves on the board.
©Douglas Lees
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Mills and Fout encouraged Steinman “to get a racehorse,” she recalls, saying the first part of horse ownership was to design her silks. Always one for a theme, Steinman chose her “favorite colors,” kelly green with a pink sash.
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Steinman hit the ground running, winning with her first jump meet starter – the Fout-trained Dream Spirit winning for rider Noel Twyman at Richmond’s old Deep Run Races in April, 1970. She won with one of her first major track starters, too, Dauncy – who remains one of her all-time favorite horses – taking a handicap the next summer at Belmont Park.
Steinman’s flat horses also launched her into the top of the game: Chrisaway won the 1972 Bernard Baruch at Saratoga and the Del Mar Handicap in California.
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‘Much ado about the Travers canoe’
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That was the provocative headline about a mysterious larceny reported in the Aug. 20, 1990 “
Saratogian,” Saratoga Springs, New York’s newspaper of record since 1855.
Peggy Steinman was implicated. Sort of.
The Aug. 19 Travers Stakes had been won by 1989 juvenile champion Rhythm, a sixth-generation homebred for Ogden Phipps. Just after the handsome son of Mr. Prospector crossed the wire 3 ½ lengths in front in the $1 million grade 1 known as the Midsummer Derby, the track crew set to work painting the canoe that floats on the infield pond at the Saratoga Racecourse in Phipps’ colors.
Since 1961, the colors of the Travers winner have been painted on the canoe moored in the pond since 1926. It was actually just a touch-up job: The canoe was already painted in Phipps’ historic black body/cherry red cap since his Easy Goer had won the race in 1989. Phipps’ Buckpasser won in 1966.
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The 2016 version of the Travers canoe in the infield at Saratoga, painted in the Juddmonte Farms colors.
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Champion jockey in 1989 (and, again in ’93) Chuck Lawrence remembers like it was yesterday. “Me and the boys had been at the Parting Glass all night long after the Travers,” recalls Lawrence, now a flat trainer based at Fair Hill. He recalls the night well, having just missed winning the Turf Writers on Thursday – second by a neck on French Hill to Ben Guessford on Double Bill. Saturday night, he says, they were feeling good, and a little fractious.
“I don’t know who had the bright idea to steal the canoe, but everybody always said it was a tradition for the jump riders to take it.”
Lawrence and four or five others left the
Parting Glass, piled into his Mercedes and drove a mile to the big, and by this time of night, dark and empty
Siro’s parking lot on Lincoln Avenue, a block from the track’s west grandstand entrance.
“We snuck in and grabbed the canoe. Took it out a little gate in the chain-link fence that wasn’t locked. We ran towards the
Reading Room, and put the canoe on top of my car.
“We put our hands out the sunroof and held the canoe. There was black and red paint getting on everything – top of my car, our hands – while we drove (around) trying to decide what to do with it.”
He also doesn’t remember – or won’t say – who thought of putting the canoe in the brand-new swimming pool at Steinman’s Fifth Avenue home, but Lawrence thought it a brilliant plan. He and most of the steeplechase colony had been at the handsome Greek Revival house for an afternoon fete a couple weeks before on Open House day, and many of the pros – including fully-dressed Hall of Famer Joe Aitcheson, had ended up in the pool.
It was the perfect place for the loot, Lawrence says. There was a huge blowup dinosaur. They put the dinosaur in the canoe, the canoe in the pool and took off.
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National Steeplechase Association board director Bill Pape, a house-guest of Steinman’s, picks up the narrative. “So, we get up the next morning, and you’d think someone was murdered,” says Pape. “The track police, the Pinkerton’s, the regular town police – they were all over the lawn. Somebody had tipped them off, and the newspaper was there, too.” Steeplechase photographer Catherine French was there to record the action.
“I went out to talk to the police,” Pape says. “I was assuring them everything would be taken care of, to settle down.
“Peggy comes out of the house – some people remember she was in her bathrobe, but I don’t remember. She comes over and I tell the police sergeant ‘here’s the lady you’ll have to arrest.”
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“The sergeant kind of laughed, but not really,” Steinman continues the story. “He was scowling. It wasn’t funny, but it really was.
“There was black and red paint on my pool toys, though.”
Sean Clancy, who went on to the 1998 rider title, wasn’t involved in the escapade, but he remembers the next morning at the Oklahoma annex, no one would own up to the theft. “The boys had red and black paint on their hands, their forearms, their chins, everywhere, as they were being questioned.”
“I’d gotten kicked out of the bar for being 20 years old earlier that night,” Clancy explains. “Probably a blessing. It was classic.”
“That was a different time back then,” Lawrence stresses. “You pull that crap these days and they’d take you down and put you in jail.”
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Fashion-sense:
All class, a touch of sass
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Peggy Steinman was a preppy before that even had a name – her 1960s-registered kelly green-and-pink silks prove it, though she’s long followed the sartorial muse. Steinman operated the Devon Horse Show’s largest clothes and jewelry boutique for more than 20 years, later
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opening the Showcase of Fashions in downtown Lancaster. She sold the store three years ago.
With regards to her famously recognizable coif – think Lady Bird Johnson meets Amy Winehouse, years ago Steinman says she “found what works” for her hairstyle, and she’s stuck with the classic ’do. She attributes the trademark look to “a lot of hair spray” and a standing appointment with her hairdresser.
There’s no secret to it, she stresses, though she does credit good genes. “My father had good hair.”
(Photo from the Fair Hill Races in the 1970's. ©Douglas Lees)
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She was named to the NSA (then NSHA) board in 1977 by president George Strawbridge Sr. Also an accredited steward, Steinman says committees are charged with handling “all the nitty gritty” of rules and regulations, requiring an eagle eye and exhaustive research to dissect the ever-changing issues.
She had a stable-full of horses with trainer Doug Fout ready to roll this spring season, and her homebred Be Somebody won a race at the Warrenton Point-to-Point before COVID19 shut down horse racing along with the rest of the world. Steinman says she’s hopeful the 100th annual Middleburg Spring Races will run on their rescheduled date of June 13, but that’s pending approval of Virginia’s governor and secretary of agriculture.
“We can only hope,” she says.
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Peggy Steinman and Doug Fout in the paddock at Saratoga in August of 2013.
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Doug Fout first met Peggy Steinman in 1963. He was 5.
Then, as now, Fout called her “Aunt Peggy.”
When he was 6, he accidentally almost terminated the relationship. “Aunt Peggy was taking me and (sister) Nina to town to get ice cream. She has this fancy new station wagon. She parked at the top of the hill at my parents’ place when we got back.
“Everybody got out and went inside, but I stayed out there, playing around in the car. I climbed over the seat and was pretending I was driving and put it in gear.
“Oh my god that car ran down the hill and practically jumped the stone wall down at the bottom. Good thing it got caught on a tree of I would have ended up in the river.
“Only thing I got was a scratch. Poor Peggy. Fortunately, that’s one of those things we can laugh about today.”
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Apparently Doug Fout's mishap hasn't kept Peggy Steinman from riding in a vehicle with him again. Here Beth and Dunn Fout catch a ride with Doug and Peggy to watch the 2008 Virginia Fall Races.
©Douglas Lees
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Steinman’s forgiving nature showed again a decade later when Fout made his first hurdle start at the 1975 Virginia Gold Cup. He was on her veteran handicapper, Dauncy.
Fout was 16. He remembers the day at the old Broadview course.
“Dad always told me to look between the horse’s ears, don’t get in trouble and don’t get in anybody’s way,” Fout says. “So I’m between (horses) heading to that last hurdle down the hill. The hurdle is set straight, but the beacon was way down on the left.
“Next thing you know the horse has sliced the turn – he knew the course, of course (fourth in the 1972 handicap there with Tom Skiffington) – and I’m flying through the air. I think he galloped the rest of the way with the field, crossed the wire in front, pulled himself up and jogged back to the barn.
“I walked back up the stretch like a whipped puppy dog. I was so embarrassed. Later, Aunt Peggy wrote me a letter saying ‘Those things happen. Things will get better. No worries.’
“I’ve still got that letter. It meant a lot.”
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That same year, 1975, Doug Fout was in the win photo when Chrisaway won the Midsummer at Monmouth, with trainer Paul Fout, Peggy Steinman, and jockey Jerry Fishback.
©Jim Rafferty/Turfotos
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Steinman has been playful in the name-game with homebreds and auction purchases alike. At times, she’s favored publishing-linked names, she says, but she also uses meaningful landmarks.
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Purchased at Keeneland September,
East Avenue is named for her Fifth Street home in Saratoga. The property also faces East Avenue, the road that leads to the main gate at Saratoga at the intersection with Union Avenue.
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Single Copy was a winner on the dirt, out of homebred Tres Jolie, out of Steinman’s French import Sarh. Sarh was second in Victorian Hill’s 1990 Colonial Cup.
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Three-generation homebred
Newscaster is out of Stage Call, out of graded stakes-placed listed winner Corporate Fund, by Steinman’s Purely Pleasure, a son of Secretariat purchased by Paul Fout for Steinman at the Saratoga yearling sale.
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Reporter is by Yes Its True out of Skirmish. Skirmish was a $360,000 Saratoga yearling by War Chant.
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Mr. Scribbler, another three-times homebred, is by Stephen Got Even out of Steinman’s Street Cry mare Rare Wine.
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Quick Print and
Data Base are both out of Steinman Saratoga yearling purchase
Society Editor.
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The Printer, out of Steinman’s French import Alkara, was a point-to-point winner for Steinman before sold her to Virginia horseman Randy Rouse. The Printer went on to break her hurdle maiden at Montpelier under Barry Wiseman before Rouse’s wife, Michele, took over the mount and turned the chestnut mare to timber. The Printer won three ladies’ timber races and earned the 1990 Virginia leading race mare over fences championship.
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Dauncy’s part in the story wasn’t done: Paul Fout used him as a lead pony when he retired from racing.
“We were in Camden, and Miss Steinman was there and asked if she could come out with us (on horseback) to jog a set. My dad said Dauncy would be perfect. We’d jog three-quarters a mile, and the plan was for her to pull up and go over and stand with my father on the rail while we galloped.
“So, we’re still jogging, and I look over and Dauncy is gone. Peggy’s up there, no helmet, hunt saddle, her hair slicked back in the wind as that horse galloped around like he was in the stretch at the Colonial Cup. She’s pulling and pulling, and that old goat is just a’rolling.
“My dad is over there about to have a heart attack. She gets him pulled up and jogs over with this big smile. ‘I guess we should put him back in training’.
“It’s funny now. It wasn’t funny then.”
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Fout and Steinman at the Virginia Fall Races in 2017. Steinman's Reporter won the ratings hurdle with Shane Crimin, up.
©Douglas Lees
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Pape's take
NSHA president 1979-1987, and 1991-1998, Bill Pape’s says his horse career pretty much parallels Steinman’s. “We met at the Piping Rock Horse Show (on Long Island, New York). That was a long time ago,” says Pape, 90 and NSA’s third all-time leading owner. “Peggy worked very hard on behalf of the hunt meets. She’s very motivated, not really one to just sit around. She’s extremely independent, tireless.
“And her parties. Oh, the parties. She’d throw excellent parties very much in the old theme, straight out of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ She loves to entertain, and you know that’s about getting people on board for the causes she was supporting.
“I talked to her just the other day, and she was getting ready to personally deliver face masks to the kids at the Boys and Girls Club. She’s always in motion, even today. A really generous lady.”
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Steinman chairs the advisory council for Leesburg, Virginia’s
Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center. A barn built on the Virginia Tech hospital campus in 2009 was dedicated to trainer Paul Fout, who died in 2005.
Fout had long supported the center, most notably helping procure funds to purchase, outfit and operate the center’s equine ambulance, easily recognized parked on the backstretch at all the Virginia steeplechase meets.
Steinman was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the EMC in 2010.
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Over 150 dignitaries and guests gathered at the Marion duPont Equine Medical Center for the dedication of the Paul R. Fout Barn in April of 2009
Photo courtesy of the Marion duPont Equine Medical Center.
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One of Peggy Steinman’s best was homebred
Colstar. Foaled in Kentucky in 1996, Colstar is by Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Opening Verse, out of Ascend, a daughter of Risen Star purchased by Paul Fout at the Ocala 2-year-olds in training sales.
Colstar won the grade 3 Martha Washington at Laurel, returning at 4 to win the grade 3 Gallorette at Pimlico, the grade 3 Locust Grove Handicap at Churchill and the grade 1
Flower Bowl at Belmont.
She was seventh in the Breeders’ Cup distaff turf back at Churchill that November, just 4 ½ lengths off winner Perfect Sting.
Spring of 2001, Colstar won the Searching Stakes at Pimlico and grade 3 Locust Grove Handicap at Churchill before annexing the All Along at Colonial Downs that summer, another grade 3, in her final start.
Colstar has produced six foals to race, including jump-related Be Somebody, a winner of one of 2020’s only jump races to date – the amateur hurdle at the Warrenton Hunt Point-to-Point, and Speed Ahead, a winner on the turf last fall at Foxfield.
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Doug Fout with Be Somebody after a win in the Amateur Novice Hurdle race at Warrenton this spring.
©Douglas Lees
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Phipps-bred
Chrisaway
, a son of Herbager was a coast-to-coast superstar for Steinman and Fout. He was a graded stakes-placed multiple stakes winner, taking the 1972 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga and a division of the Del Mar Handicap a month later, the only time the west coast classic has been split in its 82-year-history. Chrisaway missed the 1974 season but came back over hurdles in 1975. He won at first asking at Tanglewood that April with Al Quanbeck, with Jerry Fishback aboard winning next out at Virginia Gold Cup and capturing the spring finale, the National Steeplechase at Fair Hill.
Chrisaway was twice-placed that summer in handicap company at Delaware Park and won the Midsummer Handicap at Monmouth in his final start.
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Chrisaway and Jerry Fishback on their way to a win at Monmouth.
©Jim Rafferty/Turfotos
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French-bred
Bel Iman vaulted from maiden to tangling for the Eclipse in 1977. The 4-year-old import was easily identifiable – nearly black, a perfect foil for Steinman’s bright green blinkers. Doug Fout had started the season as a 7-pound bug, but Bel Iman helped erase the apprentice allowance, notching maiden victory at Stoneybrook in April, following up at Tanglewood, Radnor and Monmouth.
Bel Iman put in four uncharacteristically modest efforts at Saratoga but returned to form in the fall. He beat eventual champions Cafe Prince, Leaping Frog and Fire Control in the Gwathmey, then run at Belmont Park. He lost on the nod to Cafe Prince at Far Hills, and gave weight to Laing winner Fire Control at Montpelier.
Bel Iman lost the Eclipse tussle to eventual champion Cafe Prince after leading into the Colonial Cup stretch in November.
He retired to stud, and the Steinman line carried on through daughter Bel Cristal. A modest winner over hurdles out of 1975 ’chase champion Life’s Illusion (trained by Paul Fout,) Bel Cristal produced homebred jump winners Carnival Glass, Corporate King and turf winner Swiss Connection.
Life’s Illusion, the only mare to win the steeplechase Eclipse, never replicated her championship make-up, though she did mother hurdle and timber winner I Chase The Clouds and hurdle winner Mysterious Guide.
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1977 Essex Race Meeting (now Far Hills Race Meeting), Martin Memorial. Left to right: Cafe Prince (Jerry Fishback, up) -1st for Augustin Stables; Bel Iman II (Doug Fout, up) - 2nd for Peggy Steinman.
©Douglas Lees
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Don Panta was a winner at 3 at the prestigious Valparaiso Sporting Club in his native Chile before imported to the U.S. by Charlie Cushman. The gorgeous gray broke his hurdle maiden for Steinman, trainer Paul Fout and rider Jerry Fishback at Saratoga at 4, back when maidens were allowed to run at the Spa.
He came back at 5 with wins under Doug Fout at Belmont Park and Saratoga, and kicked off a six-race winning streak at Rolling Rock that stretched through to the 1978 Virginia Gold Cup meet.
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Don Panta (Doug Fout, up) on his way to winning the 1977 Daniel Sands Cup at the VA Fall Races.
(NSA Archives)
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Show trainer M. Edgar ‘Eggie’ Mills
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Old-school horseman M. Edgar “Eggie” Mills Jr. was one of Peggy Steinman’s first links to the horse show world.
Mills, who died at age 76 in 2007, was based in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania in the 1950s and ’60s where he trained show horses. Steinman was a client, competing as an amateur.
One of their best was Steinman’s Not Always, a bay thoroughbred hunter that was American Horse Shows Association green and working hunter champion in 1963.
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Mills and wife, Sally, moved Steinman’s show horses with them when they relocated to Virginia in the mid-1960s. Mills gave the show ride on Not Always to Orange County horseman Rodney Jenkins and turned his attention to racing. Mills partnered with the late Paul Fout and Lewis Wiley to purchase and operate the Middleburg Training Center (formerly privately owned by Paul Mellon.) It was around this time Mills and Fout suggested that Steinman “might have some fun” owning a racehorse, too.
Mills focused on starting young horses and reconditioning older runners, including stakes winner Palace Ruler, who he later stood at stud. Longtime manager of the
Upperville Colt and Horse Show, in 2005 Mills was placed on the show’s Wall of Honor.
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Steinman was appointed to the Assay Commission in 1970, serving on the testing board during the Nixon presidency. From 1792-1980, the commission supervised annual testing of the gold, silver and base metal coins produced by the U.S. mint to ensure that they met specifications.
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Although some members were designated by statute, for the most part the commission, which was freshly appointed each year, consisted of prominent Americans, and appointment to the Assay Commission was eagerly sought after, in part because commissioners received a
commemorative medal. These medals, different each year, are extremely rare.
The Mint Act of 1792 authorized the commission, and beginning in 1797, it met in most years at the Philadelphia Mint. Members would gather in Philadelphia to ensure the weight and fineness of silver and gold coins issued the previous year were to specifications. In 1971, the mint no longer produced real silver coinage, and Pres. Jimmy Carter
abolished the commission in 1980.
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In 1991, Steinman became the 19th recipient of the F. Ambrose Clark Award for her contributions to the sport.
“I cannot think of anyone more deserving … than Peggy Steinman,” then-president Bill Pape wrote in that year’s NSHA yearbook. “When steeplechasing has any need, Peggy has immediately pitched in. Her hard work and sound judgment have played a significant role in steeplechasing’s growth.”
In ’91, Steinman served as association vice-president and chair of the course, fence and safety committee.
The Clark award caught Steinman by surprise. “I never even thought about it,” she characteristically played down her role. “I feel truly honored” to receive the recognition created in 1965 in memory of steeplechase horseman Brose Clark. “I have attempted to figure out the … committee’s selection this year. The best I can come up with is … my willingness to enter horses so others will have competition that they can beat.”
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2019: National Steeplechase Association Filly and Mare Champion with homebred Market Alley
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Tod Marks
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2018: Virginia Point to Point Foundation - Champion Race Mare over Fences with Bullet Star
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Tod Marks
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2014: National Steeplechase Association - 3-Year-Old Champion with Perfect Union
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1991: National Steeplechase Association - Ambrose Clark Award
(Laurel Scott photo of Steinman at the 1991 ceremony, with 1988 winner of the award, Bill Pape)
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