Evening star., 1948-11-21
Adaptable Captures
Noel Laing Handicap
In Montpelier Meet
By Angelina J. CorobeIIi


MONTPELIER STATION, Va,
Nov. 20.-Mrs. Ella Widener's Phila-
delphia- -owned, color-bearer Adapt
able, ridden by p. Smithwick, won
the $3,000-added Noel Laing Steeple-
chase Handicap, q 21a mile brush
event, which featured the 18th an
nual meeting Of the Montpelier
Hunt Races, final hunt race meet
ing on this years agenda and held
on the local estate of Mrs. Marion
DUPONT Scott. 4
4. Adaptable, who ran second in last
weeks Mary Mellon Steeplechase at
Middleburg and was winner OF Pim-
lico's Manly Steeplechase, beat Mrs.
Stephen c. Clark, jr.s Trough Hill,
last weeks Mary Mellon winner and
Lowry Watkins Kentucky chaser
Tourist List, winner of the last two
runnings of the Laing classic and
never before defeated over this
course.
The 7-year Adaptable, a
brown gelded son Of Blenheim I'd
Black Queen, broke on top, but was
rated we'll of the pace until the
eighth fence when he made his
move. The lead in the exciting event
changed often with Mrs. Joseph B.
Ryans Cloonshee leading over the
first fence and Tourist List over the
second and fourth. At the sixth, F.
Ambrose Clark's popular Scuttle-
man and Cloonshee were neck and
neck. Scuttleman led over the eighth
and ninth fences when this game s.
year-old fell. Adaptable broke into
the lead at the tenth and last bar
rier to finish u length ahead OF
Trough Hill who finished 10 lengths
ahead of Tourist List. Cloonshee
was fourth, so lengths behind Tour
ist List. The race was run in 5:04.3,
only 42s seconds off the record time.
The Montpelier Cup, 2-mile
brush test and secondary feature
was won by Alvin Untermyer's 4
year-old Gladstone. Allan M. Hirsh's
Ratcatcher set a blistering pace in
this race and held the lead until the
sixth fence when Gladstone took
over to finish IN lengths ahead OF
Allison Stern's Tourist Index. Mrs,
Johnston Hyde's Pretender was
third, 4 lengths behind Tourist
Index. The time was APO.
The trainers race for top hunt
race honors ended in dead heat
between Sidney Waters, jr.. 81
year-old Monkton, Md, conditioner
and Burling Cocks, Unionville, Pa,
each having saddled 81 winners
during the season.
hurdles; purse 500. Time ,3:45;4:
5eslog H e e a. FGets RSsselr ~ 5 4 l. tTg f!ark
- Also ran-Ropley. Hekista, Valiant, New
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Physchic Polly. The yiceroy. Acoustics,
sese Inc 91s Ns., LfLFn sinF sssenssb.se Rgass H,pd
cap, 2Es miles over brush: $4,000 added.
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Also rsn@cloonshee. scuttlemsn.
brush The Dsr,s M0atDsst s7sSS cH2 4n. 4 @s'
Gladstone "a. Foote, 1876 "A. Untermyer
T Index u. McAdams 146 Allison Stern
Pretender 20. Brown l40 Mrs. J. HYDE
Also ran--Ratcatcher. Pueiist. Bridle-
spur Half Hour Makorbreak, Gunboats,
5. The Madison Plate. . miles over
hurdles; purse. $1,000. Time. 4O5.4.
n. Roads (Hutcherson) 14g NJ. Farm
L. Rampant IT, Field) 1877 s. Stables
Also ran-Lively Man, Repose, Dilis-
burg, Ayah's Boy.
g. The Beliyue Plate, ia miles. nat;
purse, $500. Time, 3:l6.
sociability (Ballenger) 1850. M Kline
NJ. Moore IN. Sims, -151-A. Untermyer
N. Gun tR. McDonald) 141 NJ. Farms
Also ran-Tilleul. Busy Moments, lie
BuiS Fleuri. Deem Six Satanic /