The Washington times., 1933-04-25
BANNER CROWD.
EXPECTEDFOR
MD,HUNT CUP
BY HARRY COSTELLO

BY HARRY COSTELLO
Some $4,000 to 10000 people,
fully 10000 Of them from the Dis
trict Of Columbia, are expected to
gather in the Worthington Valley
of Maryland Saturday for some
eight minutes of steeplechase
racing.
The occasion is the fortieth run
ming of the Maryland Hunt Cup
and the twenty-first running for
the challenge cup.
The Maryland Hunt Cup, AM
erica'S premier chase classic as
well as this nations greatest test
for amateur riders, was inaugur-
ated in 1894 and made a fixture
in 1895. Saturdays race will
crown q successor to such great
leapers as Oracle, Mazarin, Red
Bud, Daybright, Burgoright, Billy
Barton, Bon Master, Alligator,
Brose Hover, Scissors and Trouble
Maker, who between them have
accounted for Maryland Hunt Cup
victories during the past 13 years.
Pull for Belmont Win
Those who follow the timber
toppers seem to be pulling for
another Belmont victory. Last
Saturday, Mrs. Raymond Belmont
won the Grand National in Mary
land with her sturdy gelding,
Grubstake. This Saturday, Mrs.
Belmont will send her Star
MaSter-La Partrie aged gelding,
Starlite, after victory in the Mary
land Hunt Cup. When GrubStake
won the Grand National a jinx
which had pursued the Belmonts
since 1925 was broken.
That Starlite has it in him to
take the Maryland Hunt Cup,
none can deny. The big gelding
flashed rare form a week ago
Wednesday when he took the
Glenwood, feature race Of the
second day of the Middleburg
Hunt meeting.
Mrs. Belmont probably will not
enter Grubstake as that gelding
probably will be saved for Rose
Tree or Radnor.
First Fans to Attend
Many older men and women,
many of whom witnessed the first
running of the Maryland Hunt
Cup Cup 40 years ago, will be in
attendance Saturday, rain or
shine.
There is no supporting card to
the Maryland Hunt Cup. The
race requires no supporting card.
Post time, as usual, will be at 4
p. M, and when the flag IS
dropped on the field accepting the
issue, visitors to the Worthington
Valley from New York, Philadel-
phia. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, De-
troit. Columbus, Richmond and
other sporting centers will be in
the crowd witnessing the race.
Mrs. T. H. Somerville, who took
last years Maryland Hunt Cup
with her Berilld -Busybody geld
ing, Trouble Maker, will not have
an entry this year. r. <. Melons
Comea, scratched last Saturday,
probably will run again in this
years classic. Comea finished
sixth last year, although Mr.. Mel
Ion favors Pink Tipped.
Won't Regret Visit
# last years race is duplicated
Saturday, those who trek to the
Worthington Valley will not re-
gret it. In the 1882 classic,
Trouble Maker came from behind,
got up in the final strides and
won in a driving finish from
Brose Hover, Benjamin Leslie
Behr's former winner Of the Mary
land Hunt Cup.
Entries, with owners and riders:
Starlight, Mrs. Raymond Belmont New
York; James mccormick.
Brose Hover, BENJAMIN L. Behrs Chi
cago; Frank A. Bonsal, jr.
Sir John L. Benjamin L. Behr; John
Royal Play BENJAMIN L. Behr; rider
not named.
Jumping Jack: Mrs. Francis r. Garvan,
Roslyn, L. l.; Crawford Burton.
Comea, Richard K. Mellon, Pittsburgh;
James E. Ryan.
Pink Tipped. Richard K. Mellon; John
T. Skinner.
ostend, Mrs Frank M. Gould, New York;
William B. Street,.
Bill Clark, David K. e. Bruce, Balti-
more; Albert G.. Ober, jr.
Lippan Lad, B. o. F. Randolph, Mill
wood, Va; Stuart Rose.
Hubar, Howard Bruce. Baltimore: Ray
mond Woolfe.
Ready wit Charles 8. Cheston, PhiIa-
delphia; Stuart s. Janney, jr.
Captain Kettle, Charles 8. Cheston;
Charles r. White.
Fugitive, Mrs. T. w. Durant, New York
and Maryland; Randolph G. Duffy.
Rowland, T. W. Durant; rider not
named.
Alligator. Mrs. S. Bryce Wing, New
York; Alexis Wilson.