The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-11
RECORD ENTRY FOR
UNITED HUNTS MEET
Special Train to Course for
Marchers in Prepared
ness Parade.
CHASE FEATURE EVENT

Arrangements have been made for a
Park Terminal on Saturday In time to
allow the marchers in the preparedness
parade to see Ave Of the seven races
on the card Of the United Hunts Racing
Association meeting. This has been done
to accommodate the Stock Exchange and
Cotton Exchange members and other
Wal Street men who are equally in
,erested in racing n preparedness.
Specials will leave the Pennsylvania
Station at ~ IS and I :35 for the regu-
lar racing crowd and n third special
for the marchers will leave at 3:20.
This will reach the terminal In plenty
~ time for the Hunters championship
and the Great United Hunts Steeple-
chase. which are set for 4 and 4:30
o'clock respectively.
With .S9 entries the meet on Satur-
day promises to he the greatest OF its
kind in the history Of thoroughbred
racing IN America. Seven races are on
the card for Saturday. including five
handicap events. in which the pick of
the crack thoroughbrcds now in training
will carry top Weights. The feature
~ ~ '"s - Wv
United Hunts Steeplechase. a handicap
for four-year-olds and upward. at about
two and one-half miles. for which n
purse ~ $1,000 and a handsome trophy
are offered. This race has drawn forty
one entries. a record for this country
IN the field of amateur racing. Those
carrying top weights are 4. Wood
Compliment. +. Ambrose Clark's Lysan-
der. T.. NJ. Yields Weldship and Edward
McI.ean's Bonnie I.addie.
The Timber Toppers Champion Chase,
for hunters. at about, -four miles over the
timber course, has twenty-seven entries
and those carrying the top weights are
J :. Wilson Jr.'s Burgeois. Val Cranes
Association and FoXhal =. keene's
Toreaior. August Belmont's Top Hat
Herbert l.. Pratt's star Gaze and 4. l.
Eramer's Doublet are at top weights In
the Turf and Field Plate. a handicar
for thrce-year-olds and upward at one
mile on the Nat.
John Sanford has let ii he known 70
the breeding frat"~-ity OF this countr,
and OF Canada that The Curraeht a horse
he imported from Great Britain last
season. may serve mares from Other
farms. MIR. Sanford's object is to heir
as FAR as he car to make good the
tremendous losses the thoroughbred fam
ily has sustained since 1905 through tn,
shipping away TO Europe. South America
Africa and the Var East Of severa
million dollar worth Of valuable stal'
lions and mares. The horse he offer,
for public service is eminently Iuslii'c,
for the task to which his owner has gel
him
The Curragh IL OF the best hlorl of III.
British and Australian thoroughbred
families. His sire vas the Derby win
rer Spcarmint and one Of the best perh,
winners in a quarter of a century
through whom he inhcrits the blood o.
Carbinc and Musket. the same bloor
Roamer. our smartest racer last season
and the season before. gets through
Knight Errsnt. Currajong. The cur
ragh's dam. was a daughter OF st. Frus
auin Che a son Of -. Simon) and Hellas
she q daughter of Biavatsky by lsonomy
There are few horses Of merit in either
the United Stater, Great Britain al
France which do not claim in som.
degree the blood of st. simon am
Isonomy.