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FAMOUS JUMPER IS KILLED. Manchester, Mass., July 20. The famous steeplechaser, Land of Clover, owned by It. C. Hooper of Boston, was so severely injured by an automobile here today that he had to be killed. A groom was riding Land of Clover when an automobile struck the horse a heavy blow,- breaking Its leg. The groom was badly injured, but will recover. Land of Clover was a bay gelding eight years old, by Flatlands Lucky CloveV. He was not raced as a two-year-old, beginning his career as a three-year-old and as the property of George II. Shearer. He was sent to the post a dozen times on the fiat In 1001, but did not win a race. It was at the end of his unsuccessful year as a three-year-old that Mr. Hooper, whose racing name Is "Mr. Chamblet," bought him. As a four-yeartold he spent the year In schooling for cross-country racing, ne made his appearance as a Jumper In the spring of 1903 and did the things that made him famous. That year he started eleven times, winning five, was second three times and third once. The first race he ever won wan tin; Dukes Cup at Brookline, Mass., am, strangely enough, It was in this same stake the following year that he earned his sixth and final brackets on regulation courses. After taking the Dukes Cup in 1903 he won the Country Club Grand Annual at Brookllue, then the Independence Steeplechase at Shcepshead Bay with. 153 pounds up. ahia was followed by a victory in the Westbury Steeplechase at the fall meeting at Sheepshead Bay with 103 pounds and then came his grand triumph in the fifth Champion Steeplechase at Morris Park, in which he carried 107 pounds and ran the about three and one-half miles in 7:14. His last start was in the Beverwyck Steeplechase at Saratoga August lO. 1904.
