Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-04-06
Stable Also Scores
With Sonatine in Day
Nearly Free Of Spills
By Robert B. Phillips
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h1CHMOND, va, April o.
Galloping along behind a phalanx
of fence busters. Happy Hill Farms
venerable jumper Adaptable won
the Deep Run Hunt Cup here to-
day under a clever ride by A.
P. Paddy SmithWick.
Jordan. winner of three point
to point races in Virginia recently,
forced the pace throughout the
three miles, and at various times
at least half of the eight starters
made run at him. In the process
the leaders cleaned out five post
and-rail panels and made the
going easy for Adaptable, snugly
rated until they went to the last
two fences. Then SmithWick made
his move and overhauled Jordan
in bang-up stretch run.
The Happy Hill colors were off
to a good start when Sonatine
broke on top and stayed there
throughout the first race, hurdle
affair which also drew eight
starters. Sonatine stood off Coupe
de-Vite in the stretch, a purely
academic feat from the stand
point of Trainer J. V. H. Davis,
who saddled both horses.
Only One Spill.
Although there was some rough,
jumping in the Hunt Cup and the
entry list included an unusually
number of bad post actors, only
one spill marred the afternoon.
That one gave the crowd a bad
time for more than ten minutes,
when Mrs. Jacques Jenneys mare,
Fie Milady, Topped over the last
Jump in the Malvern Hill brush
race and couldn't get up again.
After hitting the same fence a
hard rap in the earlier turn of
the course, File Milady had tired
badly and seemed to be carried
on purely by the Craftsmanship of
Jockey C. v. B. Cushman. Cush-
man was unhurt in the fall and
the horse was simply knocked out.
After a breather, the mare was
led from the course unhurt.
Deep Run gave the customers
q long afternoon of it by adding
two heavyweight and lightweight
hunters races. Both were run at
two miles on the fiat and pro-
vided the amateur sporting note
in the card.
Brush Race Is WalkOver.
Only flies in the ointment at
this meeting were planted by a.
Handicapped and the starter. When
F. Ambrose Clarks The Creek was
dropped into a $1,000 brush race
richest purse of the afternoon
with only 1873 pounds, the re-
suit was no contest, all other g.
tries being scratched.
In the principal fiat race, after
waiting for some obstreperous
horses to stop backing and filling
at the post, the starter dropped
the flag when at least half the
field was flat-footed. Only the
eventual winner, High Road, and
the third horse, Bronze Wing
were away winging. The top
weighted Attic Fox. carrying 159
pounds. made up about ten
lengths but Smithwick refused to
run the horse in the ground in
the stretch.
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