Evening star., 1934-03-24
ELEVEN ENTERED
IN CAROLINA CUP
Race Today to Bring Out
Some of Country'S
Greatest Horses.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, JR.

CAMDEN, S. c., March 23.-Eleven
of the fifteen best timber horses in
training in America are to parade TO
the post here this afternoon for the
fifth running of the Carolina Cup,
emblem Of victory in the first i'm
portant event in the 1884 amateur
racing season.
Cooked in their saddles. wearing the
silks Of some Of the most noted
stables in horsedom, will be the cream
of the crop Of gentlemen jockeys, pre-
pared to give the thousands Of spec
tators collected from States East.
West, North and South real run for
their money.
Despite the withdrawal of Trouble
maker, favorite in the test, indications
we're the crowd would not be disap-
pointed in its expectations of an
epoch making race. Only one other
horse has been declared, James E.
Ryan's Tout Droit.
Champions in Running.
Still in the running are champions
Of past seasons and several young
horses of great promise, and the bur-
den of the days thrills has not been
delegated entirely even to these. for
in the supporting card of five races
there are many sterling steeplechasers
worth long trip to see. Two stable
mates, each a winner over the famed
Billy Barton at Pimlico, will team to-
gether in the Springdale Steeplechase
of 2 miles over brush to try the
mettle of Mrs. Werner z. Reeds SEN
sational runner, Our Friend, which
already has blossomed forth this sea-
son with two consecutive victories.
The veteran pair are Mrs. Thomas S
H. Somerville's Battleship and Tereus,
and the duel between that trio Is ex-
pected to be in the class with the cup
race itself
Redoubtable are the records of the
starters in the Carolina that few ex-
perts have committed themselves to
straightforward prediction.
The triumphs Of Carleton Palmer's
Rond du Roi, T. w. Durant's Fugitive
and Little Dan, Benjamin Leslie Behr's
Brose Hover and Mrs. w. A. Wads-
worth's Hotspur I'd are history. while
the recent victory flashed by Mrs.
Somerville's Oliver c. in the Aiken
Cup, the close second Paul Melons
Drinmore Lad ran behind Trouble
maker in the Piedmont Gold Cup last
Fall, and the winning race, Alvin T..
Untermeyer's War Eagle turned in
here February %, brand them as top
caliber competition.
Two Dark Horses Watched.
The two relative dark horses in
the field, Ernest L. Woodward's Sun
set I'd and Mrs. T. E. Proctor's
Charioteer, on their present form un-
deniably deserve classification with
the others.
The five supporting races have
withstood brilliantly the usual attack
of last-minute scratches. Virtually
every important entry is expected to
answer the starters bugle in the
Palmetto, the opener to be run "a
miles over the timber; the Kershaw,
2 miles over brush for maidens and
winners of one race: the Springdale,
the Camden plate of furlongs on
the fiat and the Wateree, IA miles on
the fiat.
So imposing is the Camden plate
entry list that another race may have
to be added to take care of it. Fifteen
were named for the event, and it
probably will be broken up into two
divisions.
Most of the riders imported for the
cup contest today hail from the hunt
ing country near Washington in
Maryland and Virginia. From Middle
burg come Randolph Duffey, James
p. Mccormick and Henry Frost, while
Noel Laing and Francis Greene
are from the Warrenton district.
The Maryland representation includes
Stuart Janney and Charles White,
and the other amateurs are drawn
from New Jersey. Pennsylvania and
New York.