Evening star., 1938-04-24
|NSH0RE REPEATS
IN T|MbERCLASS|C
Little Grand National Gun
Is Retired as Veteran
Wins Third Time.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, Jr.
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.

otAA NVItSopOhUC1lL VI No 6d2I.
GREEN SPRING VALLEY. Nd,
April 23-Great horses have won
Americas steeplechase classics once
or twice in . row in years past, and
occasionally the same owner has been
able to muster three winners to retire
a challenge trophy within some period
Of years, but ]. w. Y. Martins veteran
Inshore marked himself as one horse
in too many thousand here yester-
day afternoon when he took the Little
Grand National point-to- point tim
Der race for the third time in three
starts.
BY so doing the big, bold son Of
Infinite -Foreshore earned for his
owner the right to hang in the tro-
ply room gold challenge cup that
has been in competition for 13 years.
and at the same time stamped himself
the inevitable favorite for the Mary
land Hunt Cup next Saturday in Wor-
thington Valley.
Blockade STAYED OF.
Inshore's triumph before a crowd Of
$500 yesterday was not scored over
the toughest Of all possible competi-
ton, but his faultless fencing and un-
swerving speed showed that the old
horse has lost none of his class. At
times ne had to show the best of cour-
age to stand of the repeated chal-
lenges of Mrs. E. Read Boards Block
ade, son of Man O. War that ran a
strong-hearted race. but was set back
time and again by faulty jumping.
Brought to the post in beautiful
condition by his trainer, Frank A.
Bonsal, jr., Inshore had every pos
sible break from the snug ride given
him by Charley White, who rated the
odds-on favorite just back of the early
pace set by Blockade, then moved for
ward into command during the second
turn of the 3-mile course and refused
to give an inch thereafter.
While three Of the five starters were
never really threatening factors at
any stage Of the route, Blockade hung
on so doggedly, kept running at the
leader with such persistence, that the
crowd felt itself swept up in the high
swirl OF a real horse race, and not
until both the leaders had cleared
the last fence was any one willing to
predict with finality the name Of the
winner.
OF the three that could not quite
make the grade. Mrs. BENJAMIN H.
Griswold 3ds Be Happy feA at the
eleventh fence, Arthur I. Meigs' Me-
phistopheles refused the next to last
fence and was pulled up, while c. H.
Palmer's Gil Bias finished the course
to be more or less belated third.
Justa Racket Scores.
In the Churchville Cup, secondary
feature of the day. the business OF
pace-setting was not such q lucky
one. for Miss Bruner Hunneman's
Mother Earth bit the dust at the
next to last fence after forcing the
running virtually all the way. Hugh
j. ODonovans Justa Racket came on /.
to win. c. H. Palmers Jochan and
Martins Ronille trailed in the order
named
Thirty-rinth running. Little Grand Ma.
tional Point.to-Pont '3 miles over timber,
FIRST. J. w; Y. Martins Inshore. ridden
by Charlie White; second, Blockade. owned
oy Mrs. =. Read Beard. ridden by Fred
GolWlIi: third, Gil Bias. C. H. Palmer Sidney
Waters, jr.. Mephistopheles refused next
TO last fence and was pulled up. Be Happy
fell. eleventh fence
Fifth running, the Churchville Cup flor
non-wlnners over timber. about o1a miles
over the timber course)-First .Justa
Racket Hugh j O'Donovan. ridden hy
owner; second: Jochan C. H. Palmer. Sid
ney waters jr.: third Ronille. J. W Y
Martin. Fred Colwill. Mother Earth fell