The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-08-31
FAIR HILL STEEPLE-
CHASE COURSE
Two Day Attraction Features
Opening-Throngs In
Attendance
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three-mile Foxcatcher National Cup
Steeplechase on the new steeplechase
course of the Foxcatcher Hounds
hunt club at Fair Hill, Cecil county,
on Saturday. A crowd estimated at
above 10000 from Delaware, Mary
land and Pennsylvania, packed the
the finish line and saw the four races
scheduled.
The races concluded the fair,
which included horse show and
shows for Guernsey, Holstein and
Jersey cattle. The Guernsey and
Holstein cattle shows were held on
Friday. On Saturday the last part
of the horse show and the Jersey
cattle show was held.
The judges of the horse show were
DR.. J. s. Andres, of Orange, Va,
and Lurman Stewart, Monkton, Md.
In the morning hours upwards OF
$500 people gathered around the
cattle ring and in the grand stand
to witness some of the finest cattle
of Cecil county ever exhibited at the
Fourth Annual Jersey Cattle Show
with over 1875 head of Jersey bred
cattle competing for the cash prizes.
gey was in charge of the show, while
Paul Sparrn, Morristown, N. j., a
Jersey cattle breeder and importer.
judged with H. g. Barker, of Uni
versity of Maryland, assisted by
County Agent J. z. Miller.
Melita, owned by F. A. Upsher
Smith, ably ridden by R. B. Young,
heidelberg, Va, won the National
Cup Steeplechase, over the new
brush jump course, believed to be
the finest steeplechase course in
North America.
William DUPONT, Bellevue, riding
the Foxcatcher Farms horse Keep
Out, won the second race, the Big
Elk Flat Race of one mile and seven
furlongs.
The third race, the Foxcatcher Ma
tional Cup Steeplechase, was marked
by two spills. Bachelors Drake fell
at the seventh jump. James D.
Ryan, the rider, later remounted and
finished the course third. Mezzo,
the other starter, went down at the
third jump. Jack T. Skinner, his
rider was unconscious and removed
from the course in an ambulance.
The three mile steeplechase race was
finished in ga LIS.
Swansea, black mare Of John Boss
ley, Jr., Green Spring Valley, won in
the two mile brush course in the
Fair Hill Steeplechase, the first race.
Passive, with Carroll Bassett riding,
fell on the sixth jump and had to be-
destroyed. Her rider was knocked
unconscious in the spill but soon re-
covered. Fairy Lore, with Noel
Laing owner, went down on the
eighth jump and the riderless horse
came in second.
The fourth event, Louisville fiat
race, seven furlongs, was won by
Sable Nun, chestnut mare Of Mrs. T.
H. someryille, ridden by G. X. Bas-
|sett.
The four races, particularly the
National Cup Race, were features Of
the two-day fair sponsored by the
Foxcatcher Hounds Hunt Club and
the Cecil County Breeders Fair on
the grounds Of the Foxcatcher
Hounds Club.
Two courses are laid out at Fair
Hill, smaller one within q larger
one. The larger one, about three
miles, used for the Foxcatcher Ma
tional.
Four Liverpools and two water
jumps comprise the shorter course
which are combined with one more
water jump and three more Liver
pools on the larger course. This
makes ten jumps in all. The Liver
pools are brush jumps with the
water on the near side.
The greater part of the course is
laid over rolling and beautiful Fair
Hill country, with uphill and down
hill stretches.
A large concrete and steel grand
stand has been erected on huge
mound Of earth. The mound Is at
least 20 feet high and affords full
view of the entire course. A large
stable has been added to the equip
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