Evening star., 1941-04-11
Record Field Entered
In MiddIeburg Hunt
Meet Tomorrow
Belmont Ruce's Revival
Brings Out Brilliant
List of 26 Entrants
BY LARRY LAWRENCE.


For those who like swift action,
daring riding over hazardous OBJ
stacles, gruelling tests of equine
endurance and human stamina the
road leads to Middleburg, Va, to-
morrow. There at the famous
Glenwood Park course at 2 pm.
top timber and brush horses, first
flight hunting hunters and fat rae
erS will compete in the six events
of the 21st annual Middleburg Hunt
race meeting.
Eighty-eight entries have been
received by the management, making
this the largest number of outstand-
ing steeplechaSers and hunters ever
to compete at a spring meeting.
Two Races Featured.
Co-featured on the card are the
Middleburg Hunt Cup and the Bel
mont Memorial Hunting Champion
ship. The former is steeplechase
of miles over timber that has at
tracted the leading 'chasers of the
East, among them Henchman, the
most sensational front runner seen
over post-and-rail in a decade. The
crack gelding, owned by William j.
Clothier, was the leading money
winner over timber in 1910. Equally
favored will be Christopher M.
Greer, jr.'s, great HouSeman and
Mrs. Frank M. Goulds Holdforth.
Another entrant that will get big
play in this race is Mrs. Laurence
M. Hamilton's Music Mountain.
The Belmont Memorial, which
last year was discontinued because
of lack of timber horse entries, has
been rejuvenated by successful
operation on it's rules with the re-
suit that 26 entries will go post
ward when the race is called. The
Belmont hardly would be recog-
nized since its face was lifted. Now
the entries consist of real hunting
hunters qualified by the masters of
their hunts, and their riders are all
supposed to be regular members OF
recognized hunts. The Belmont Is
now a test for real hunters.
Belmont Favorites Listed.
The hot favorites in this event
should be T. Beatty Browns Com
medienne, one of the champions OF
Upperville's Piedmont Hunt; Mrs.
Crompton Smiths Mowgli, ready to
give all for dear old Middleburg;
Duncan H. Reads Clifton's Gem,
another Middleburg hope, and a very
dark horse from the Sewickley Hunt
called Manarue, owned and ridden
by George Chubb.
Commedienne, with three straight
wins in Virginia and Maryland
fields, one of them a record per-
formance appears to be the class OF
the race
The entries:
The Wanapepn "a miles Ms.9 over sn5iTaI hITaiesR
K. Mellon, Pittsburgh. Fred Astaire, Mrs;
H NJ Gould. New York; LOCOMOTIVE, Boyd
Keys, MsIyland EDindsl' 4 ,ok 4 DUN; W,1s,Ns New
sunador. Mrs. Fay Ingalls,. Hot SPRINGS;
Winged Woofi. G, Mahon Kline; Gulfelano,
Ne5ucanezsor and Roger oCahan, F. Am
brose Clark. North Carolina: King Cob. g.
c. Tuke. Southern Pines: N: Csi NJ Kennel 1oet
and Paytelia, Miss Mary A. Rumsey. War
William Skinner Memorial. a1s miles nj Hs
sharpsburs, Pa; Doctors Gift, J. Fred
Adams. jr: Fred Astaire. Mrs Gould: 1. A.
5y,Tf T9Tchs SeS MI Jersez otsrk; Tiosa' N Gam
Middieburs Hunt Cup steeplechase, a
miles over timber-,Bobe; Joseph , Richards ss
warSurs. W. & MiddIsburs: Henehmaa: william
J. Clothier Philadelphia: Mansfield Park
pau Esss 6 Rsy 4Ss' Nus psina MSqnt'n MsS
Christopher Greer. jr. Mavis, A. A Bald
win. Boyce, Va: Memory Lane, Rokeby
Stables, Upperyille; Hold Forth, Mrs: Gogld;
The Panther Skin. 2 miles over brush
Homestedder; Nj Parker; Tioss, MT iriS1sn1. Gam.
and Harsoman. eroton stables: coxsxsin
FIRE. Hugh Hoffman: Different n R. K
Mellon; Fred Astaire. Mrs. Could: Our
Sailor and Winged Hoof; M: Kline: Sur,
tax; Allen 1,I M airsch; t n. Nights It Heron
Belmont Memorial sseeplechase. miles
over hunting country--Get Out, Bath Coun-
Lines. Green Spring valley Hunt: Kings;
Big Charley: Middleburg Hunt; Longitude
Five Star and Selfish Gain, Orange County
Hunt: Sky Knees, Old Dominion Hunt: Bis
Storm, Princess, Anne Hunt; Rockland Lad
Pickering Hunt: Commedienne, Coldum'
Airy Spirit and Sky Painter, Piedmont
Hunt; Manarue, Sewickley Hunt: Sir Ro-
meo and Slim Hope, Warrenton Hunt;
Engle's Wonder. Blue Ridge Hunt: M. e
Tope, Potomac Hunt.
Amathytyron and Bright and Gay, Groton
Stables; Flying Friar and Good Chance,
Rokeby Stables: Epindel. Mr. Dunn: Torfey,
Brooks Parker: Argentine and Tar Brush,
c. Mahlon Kline; Sun Bee and Red Penny,
Edward jenkins; Dothar, Mrs. J. T.
Skinner: Nickel, Mrs. Whitney, and Dis
penser. r. K. Mellon.