The Washington times., 1932-05-04
IS To CONTEND.
FOR VIRGINIA
GOLD CUP
BY HARRY COSTELLO

MOEe LIldn O,UVU peISOIlS 1EOu1
the District of Columbia, an6
poSsibl. 10000, plan to attend the
War1enton CVa) jumping races
( c.turday. Three events are on
the days program, which will
start at noon, with the major
rcce, the Virginia Gold Cup,
scheduled at 4 o'clock.
Thir teen are expected to accept
the issue in the Gold Cup, a race
Of about four miles over timber
course. The other two events are
the Warrenton Hunt Club, which
Eill be the first number on the
program, a three-and-a-half mile
timber race. and the North Wales
Cup. scheduled for 1890, two and
a half miles over brush.
Great interest attaches to Mrs.
T. H. Sommerville's gelding.
Grenadier Guard, by Light Bri-
gade out of Lady Rotha. Mrs.
Sommerville, the former Marion
DUPONT, Of Wilmington, Del, has
a habit Of reaching into her bag
to draw forth winners. She took
the major event at Deep Run with
h Racketeer II, finished second
with him in the Middleburg Hunt
Cup, and then won the Maryland
Hunt Club with Troublemaker.
Grenadier Guard, therefore, is
expected to carry on in the usual
Sommerville fashion Saturday,
when he meets stiff competition
headed by the Man o. War geld
ing, Sea Soldier, recently returned
from the greatest Steeplechase Of
them all, the Grand National, at
Aintree Liverpool, England. De-
spite his poor showing in his two
starts in this country since his
return from abroad, the Man O.
War-Sea Name gelding holds the
respect Of followers of the tim
ber-toppers.
Eleven COntenders
The Ii who will contend with
Grenadier Guard and Sea Soldier
are Mrs. Paul Abbott's Mob Law,
by Drastic out Of Incitation; Sois-
sons, another Light Brigade geld
ing, out of AlSike, and winner of
the 1881 Maryland Hunt Cup;
Flying Horse Farms Meleager-
Dusty Girl gelding, Melita II;
Light Hampson, a third Light
Brigade gelding, out of Margaret
Hampson, third in the Middle
burg Hunt Cup, and also Fly
ing Horse Farm entry; DR.. Lewis
M. Aliens Ostend, by Sand Mole,
out of Vanity Fair, third in the
Grand National; Frank M.
GouId'S Wrack- -Cattleya gelding.
Lee Cooper; Mrs. T. w. Durant'S
durable duo, Barleycorn another
Light Brigade gelding, out Of Five
Aces, and the popular LOuvois-La
Paloma gelding, MacCarthy More,
third in the Maryland Hunt Cup:
Mr.. Durant's Peter Pan-Star Maid
offspring, Cantheist; Duncan H.
Reads Rock Savage-La Beffa
gelding, Silvery Jim, and H. r.
Bishops Bulgaria -PinroSe geld
ing, Bulgold.
In sending scissors to the
races once again, Flying Horse
Farm officials are hoping that
this gelding's real race of the
year will be run. If it is, Sois-
sons will just about win. How
ever, among fox-hunterS and
other devotees of the fencers,
few will accord scissors a chance.
Expect Close Finish
The Virginia Gold Cup is ex-
pected to furnish the fourth nip
and-tuck finish of the year.
Stonedale and Racketter II
furnished the first one in the
Middleburg Hunt Cup, when they
finished a head apart; Yeoman
and Stonedale offered the sec
ond, when they finished a head
apart in the Grand National;
and Troublemaker and BroSe
Hover gave 10000 persons a thrill
last Saturday when they finished
a four-mile, 22-jump journey only
a nose apart.
Saturdays first two events will
be run on Clovelly, estate of R.
C. Winmill, two miles south of
Warrenton, while the big race,
the Virginia Gold Cup, will be
decided over a course tagged on
B. D. Stilman's Elway Farm. just
across the road from Clovelly.
The social event planned as q
climax of the day will be a sub
Scription dance at the Carter
residence in Culpepper Street,
starting at $50 D. m.