The Washington times., 1937-02-12
Hunts Season
Opens With
Sdnd-Hi|IS
BY HARRY COSTELLO


Americas own Grand National,
run annually at Hereford, Md,
and known as the Grand National
Point-to-P Point, will be decided on
April II this year.
The Grand National will be fol
lowed on successive Saturdays by
the famous Maryland Hunt Cup
event. at Glyndon, Md, and the
Virginia Gold Cup, at Warren
ton. Va.
Hunt race meetings, of the
spring, in the Virginia Maryland
area, will open on Saturday, April
8, with the running of the Deep
Run Hunt Cup, at Richmond, and
will end with the Virginia Gold
Cup, May l. The sole hunt race
meeting of the fall season will be
conducted by the Middleburg Hunt
Racing Association, at Middleburg,
Va, on Saturday, November 13.
Opens at Pinehurst
This years hunt race meeting
calendar calls for the season to
open with the meeting of the Sand
Hills Steeplechase and Racing
Association, of Pinehurst, N. c.,
on Saturday, March 13. This event
will be followed in succession by
the following:
Carolina Cup, Camden, S. c.,
March 27; Deep Run Hunt Cup;
Middleburg Hunt Racing Associa-
ton, Middleburg, Va, April 10 and
Wednesday, April IA; Grand Ma
tional Point-toPoint; Maryland
Hunt Cup; Virginia Gold Cup;
Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Club,
Broad Axe, Pa, May |; Radnor
Hunt, BerWyn, Pa, Wednesday,
May S, and Saturday, May 8;
Rockaway Steeplechase Associa,
ton, Cedarhurst, Long Island, May
8: Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club,
Media, Pa, May IL and May Is;
Fort Leavenworth Hunt, Fort
LeavenWorth, Kan, May %.
Fairfield and Westchester
Hounds, Rye, N. Y, May 81; Cav
airy School Hunt, Fort Riley, Kan,
June 2; Pennington Valley Polo
Association, Pennington, Conn,
June S; United Hunts Racing AsSo-
citation, Roslyn, Long Island, June
IL; Adjacent Hunts Association,
Rye, N. Y, September 6; Rock
away. Cedarhurst, Long Island,
Septem Il; Meadowbrook,
Westbury, Long Island, September
25; Huntingdon Valley, Jenkin-
town, Pa, october 2; Bridlespur,
Huntleigh Downs, Mo-, october 2.
Closes With Montpelier
Rolling Rock, Ligonier, Pa, Oc.
tober and 9; Whitemarsh Val
ley, Flourtown, Pa, october 9;
West Hills. Huntington, L. l., Oc-
tober IL; Rose Tree, October 13
and 16; Monmouth County, Red
Bank, N. j., October 16; Essex
Fox Hounds, Far Hills, N. j., Oc-
tober 27 and 80; United Hunts,
Belmont Park, Elmont, N. Y, No
vember 2; Pickering Hunt,
Phoenixville, Pa, November 6;
Middleburg, Middleburg. Va, No.
vember 13, and Montpelier Hunt,
Montpelier Station, Va, Novem-
Der 20.
The hunts committee of the Ma
tional Steeplechase and Hunts
Association, in annual meeting
yesterday, approved the 81 dates
mentioned in the foregoing para.
graphs. granted 25 amateur rider
certificates and approved of four
others subject to the further ap-
proval of the board of stewards
and elected officers for the year.
The following amateur rider
certificates were granted:
Perry Benson &C. H. BOStwick
Sidney H. HirSt S. S. Janney, jr.
Paul d. Reid y. E. Ryan
"W. B. STREET. ]. N. Theodore
&C. r. White S. G. Flagg, jr.
Tom Halliday Rigan Mckinney
ID. D. Odell Hardwick Stires
Alex Smith 7. A. Watson
S. H. Waters, jr. Morris H. Dixon
ID. H. CarHahan J. G. Leiper, jr.
]. H. Kerr, jr. Il. StOddard, jr.
y. T. Skinner T. Van Ingen
B. Tuckerman, jr.
+Subject to trainer amateur
rider rule.