Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-03-30
Md. Hunt Cup And
Grand National To
Feature Hunt Races
Series OF Steeplechase Events
To Be Run On Four COnsecu-
tive Saturdays During April

Valley during the month of April
when a series of steeplechase events,
arranged by various hunt club COM
mittees, will be run on consecutive
Saturdays, beginning April 8.
Practically all of the horses which
were entered in the various events
last year will be raced again, and it
is hoped that several timber-toppers
which started in the Grand National
last Friday at Aintree, England, will
be brought to Maryland in time to
enter in the events.
The dates and races scheduled for
this season in the state follows:
April S-Junior Point-to-Point and
Neophyte Handicap, ]. w. Y. Mar
tin estate. Worthington Valley.
April 15-My Lady's Manor, Right
Royal Cup and John Rush Street
Memorial Handicap, at My Lady's
Manor.
April 22-Grand National Point-to
Point, Emerson estate at Brookland-
wood.
April 29-Maryland Hunt Cup
over estates of Charles L. A. Heiser
and ]. W. Y. Martin, Worthingtor
Valley.
Charles B. Reeves, secretary of the
Maryland Hunt Club committee
which includes Redmond C. Stewart
Cough W. Thompson, Jacob A. III.
man, Raj Parr, Albert G. ODER Jr.
Charles L. A. Heiser and G. Bernard
Fenwick, held a meeting today tt
iron out the details connected with
the fortieth running of the historic
event.
AS usual, the race will be helC
under the sanction of the Nationa
Steeplechase and Hunt Assn, ant
will be run over a course of fou
miles, starting and finishing on the
estate of Charles L. A. Heiser, bur
extending over that of ]. w. Y
Martin.
Each year, this race climaxes ths
steeplechase season in Maryland
The course is regarded as one of tht
most difficult, with % obstacles, o.
which is are post-and-rail fences
three are board fences, and one {
brook with a guard rail.
John K. Shaw, Jr., is secretary Of
the committee in charge of the
Grand National. Other members are
S. Bonsal Brooks, D. B. Brewster
George Blakiston, Louis L. Merry
man, B. H. Brewster III, j. Reimar
Mcintosh and Frank A. Bonsal Jr.
Yeoman, the chestnut gelding rid
den by Bowes Bond, was surprise
winner of this event last year, beat
ing a fine field which included Sea
Soldier, which ran in the Grand Ma.
tional at Aintree last year.
Three races will be held a. My
Lady's Manor the afternoon of Apri
Is, the program including the My
Lady's Manor Point-to-Point anc
the Right Royal Cup, which are rur
over the same course, and the Johr
Rush Street Memorial Handicap, 6
two-mile race over 16 brush fences
Brose Hover won a nose victory
over Reel Foot in My Lady's Manor
last year, while Kahler was first t.
} finish in the Right Royal Cup. Poll
nos won the STREET. Memorial.
The committee for the My Lady''
, Manor racing consists of Charles M
!, Pearce, president; j. Myers Pearce
secretary; Walter Hutchins, Hamil
ton Cockey, H. l. Nicholas, Leslie E
Keifer and John Bosley.
: The second renewals of both thu
Junior Cross Country Steeplechas'
and the Neophyte Handicap will b.
run over a two-mile course. The
Junior is limited to riders under Y
years old with las pounds as a mini
mum weight allowance. Dickey Jan
ney, astride Red Brand, owned b.
, Jervis Spencer Jr., won this EVEN
, last year.
) The Neophyte is an event fol
"green riders and green horses" II
is a race for men who have nevel
: ridden in major steeplechase event
| while horse which has competed il
the Maryland Hunt Cup or the Grant
National is ineligible to run in tht
Neophyte.
Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., George G
Carey, Jr., and Thomas Cover Ord in.
augurated the idea last year, the
plan being to hold a steeplechast
event for the men who had been fol.
lowing the hounds in Maryland dur.