Evening star., 1933-11-05
DANIEL SCOT WINS !
LLANG0LLEN RACE|
Society Event on Whitney ES.
tate Near UpperviIIe
Draws Thousands.
BY ROBERT Il. PHILLIPS, JR.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
LLANGOLLEN FARM, Upperville,
Va, November 4-Pounding over the
turf at clip that staggered his COM
petition and sent the majority of it
crashing to the ground, Mrs. Frank
NJ. Gould's 5-year- -o,d colt, Daniel Scot,
won the third annual running of the
Llangollen National Steeplechase on
the John Hay Whitney estate here this
afternoon.
A crowd of 5000 gayly-garbed spec
tators clustered on the hilltops and
chased from one vantage point to an
other to catch glimpse of perhaps the
most spectacular brush test of the
year, as Daniel 500. swept to an easy
victory.
w. Hunt gave the swift, strong leap
ing gelding a splendid ride from start
to the finish line. bat he would never
have won in such hollow fashion had
not I. w. Durant's Highland Dan
bobbled badly only two jumps from
home and hurled down his rider,
Charles White.
First to Take Header.
Flying Horse Farms Five O'Clock
was the first to take a header. and no,
long aftcrward benjamin Leslie Behr's
Outlaw, which Won this event last
year in the colors of Mrs. Marshall
Field, Somersaulted over fence and
sent spinning to earth the hopes of
Rigan Mckinney. the leading Steeple-
chase rider in America this year, for
whom victory would have meant equal
ling the all-time record of "a victories,
set by Robert Mckinney many years
age.
Mckinney suffered a severe wrench
to his cOllarbJne, already broken once
this season, and probably will not re-
turn to the saddle for at least two
weeks.
AS the field tore on unabashcd by the
catastrophes around it. Hunt and High
land Dams Jockey SET tnelr caps Tor
Fairylore, which had Gu. cut all the
carly running. Going into the last mile,
the pair made it clear they had been
tagging deliberately. In single quick
move. Daniel SCOT took command, and
before they had gone far down the
last row of fences leading to the judges
sand Highland Dan Surgcd forward
TO take issue with the leader.
Highland Dan Hits Fence
The TWO horses drew away rapidly
peared TO be running in the longer
stride, when he hit a fence, landed
badly and lost his rider. Thence for
ward 1t was all a hand gallop for
Hunt. He brought Daniel SCOT home
at least 10 lengths in front, with F.
Ambrose Clark Louis Dor second
and Mrs. Henry S. HoTkhelnler's George
Jessell, third Fairylore was the only
other to finish sanding up. The VIC
tory was worth approximately 81. 500
to Mrs. Gould, and she will retain
the Llangollen Gold Cup until next
year.
Most startling among the surprises
of the day was the Looping victory of
Louis Leith's aged mare, Mezzo. in the
Ayrshire Cup. Under a clever ride
BY jamie Mccormick she put i. all
over six veteran competitors on TIM
Der course that set two of them down.
Victim of nasty spill in the first race,
the Piedmont Gold Cup which went
10 Mrs. T. H. S0merville's Trouble
maker as every one had expected. Nc
Cormick came back to handle Mezzo
handsomely. Rated comfortably close
to the leaders, Toutdroit and Red
Eagle, IL until the latter fell and
the former began to tire, Mezzo almost
waltzed away from the stretch chal-
lenge Of Alvin Untermyer's geldmg, H.
J. Smith. and Mccormick: was looking
over his shoulder as he hand-rode the
third and ToptwiS, from the SomeF-
vile stables, a belated fourth. No others
finished.
IeHta Wins Race
The smallest field Of the afternoon
went to the post in the Blue Riband
Chase. the closing trial of the official
program when Thomas B. Gays Brown
Ruler, Mrs John Hay Whitneys Cor
nelius and F. A U. Smiths Melita
were the only three to leave the pad
dock Robert Young made it Melita's
race all the way. withstanding repeated
challenges from Cornelius ard out
jumping the Whitney horse at every
fence until the contender went down
at the last obstacle. Brown Ruler closed
fast III the final strides. but Melita was
| unoer wraps going frs. past the
judges.
| Despite the numerous thrills during
the afternoon, none of the riders was
seriously hurt.