The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-06
Event Slated
Saturddy|n
Virginia
BY HARRY COSTELLO


important Maryland Hunt Cup.
The Middleburg Cup will be run
next Saturday, the opening day
of the seventeenth annual spring
meeting of the Middleburg Race
Association. Again this year, the
Middleburg Race Association is
holding a two-day meeting, the
second days racing to be held on
Wednesday, April IT.
Some of the country'S best jump
ers, in training in the Carolinas
these past several weeks, will con-
test in the Middleburg classic
which is at a distance estimated
to be about four miles across coun-
try over a tagged timber course
Just about as stiff as they come.
Among the better known leaperS
expected to go in the Middleburg
Cup event are Paul Melons Wei
bourne Jake, winner of Saturday S
Deep Run Hunt Cup; Mrs. G. H.
Bostwick's Fugitive, winner Of the
Carolina Cup; Mrs. Simon T. Pat
terson'S Career, second to Wei
bourne Jake in the Deep Run
Hunt Cup; Ostend, Deflation and
Gigolo.
Daniel C. Sands, M. F. H, Mid
dleburg Hunt, chairman of the
race committee, has arranged a
strong supporting card for Satur-
day, and another fine card for
the following Wednesday.
Annual Cup Races
This years advent OF the 'chas-
ers into the internationally known
Virginia-Maryland area for the an
nual cup competitions is compile
mented by widespread talk OF Will
lie du Points dream course
Delaware Park-now nearing COM
pletion.
The Du Pont track, on the out
skirts of Wilmington, is known as
"Willie's Dream Course" for the
reason that Willie, owner Of Rose
mont and Fairy Hill, gathered his
ideas for his prize track from ali
parts of the world solely with the
notion Of one day building a track
in this country which would bring
to devoteeS Of the chase the thrills
known on such courses as the
Aintree, near Liverpool, over
which annually is run the worlds
outstanding steeple h a Sc, the
Grand National.
Delaware Park is seven miles
from Wilmington on a 400-acre
tract that admirably lends itself
to Willie du Points ideas Of an
ideal racing plant. There are two
courses for the jumpers. Both are
said to be remarkable racing
strips. The grandstand will seat
5000 people. At present the law
allows 20 days Of racing, although
it is understood efforts will be
made to increase this to 80 days.
Seven Fences
The inside" jumping course is
a mile oval with seven fences. The
outside" or liverpool course is
a mile and three-eights with eight
jumps.
Incidentally, those Of you who
encounter difficulty seeing the
bangtailS run, as you1 vision is
obScured by someone taller than
yourself, will be interested to know
that Willie du Pont thought out
a remedy for this condition. At
Delaware Park the clubhouse lawn
slopes upward from five feet above
the track at the lower edge to IL
feet at the clubhouse-wall end of
the green.
For some reason or other, not
at all clear to followers of the
SteeplechaSers, once again this
year, My Lady's Manor conflicts
with the Middleburg meeting.
On Saturday also, the twenty.
ninth running Of the My Lady's
Manor Pointto-Point will take
place at Monkton, Md, on the
estates Of j. Myers Pearce and
Leslie F. Kieffer.
Middleburg annually stages its
race meeting on Glendale, estate
Of the Master Of the Middleburg.
Two horses stand out as draw.
ing the attention Of SteeplechaSe
deyotees. The two are the reju-
venated Fugitive, gallant son of
Tryster, and Mrs. Marion du Point
SCOTS Golden Reel.
RegainS Form
Fugitive seems to have regained
the form which made him a
champion several years back. His
fencing has been faultless this
season, to date. Three severe
tests this spring appear to have
him ready and he should rate
with the best in the cup competi-
tons.
Golden Reels excellent race
against F. Ambrose Clark's Biz.
m1ngham, at Springdale, stamps
Mrs. SCOTS favorite as one to be
reckoned with. Birmingham. a
really top horse, had difficulty in
diSposing Of Golden Reel at
Springdale. AS a matter of fact.
the ride given Birmingham in the
final strides, by Frank Dollhouse,
considered by many as the best
SteeplechaSe rider now on the
Hunts circuit, is more often given
as the reason for Birmingham S
victory than Golden Reels infe-
riority to the Clark star.
Middleburg, My Lady's Manor,
the Grand National Point-to-Point.
the Maryland Hunt Cup and the
Virginia Gold Cup have quite a
mark to shoot at. The Carolina Cup
meeting, at Camden, was a great