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ORTHODOX MAKES HIS DEBUT AS A JUMPER. In making his debut as a steeplechaser at Graves end yesterday, Orthodox, the five-year-old chestnut son of Don de Oro and Ortega!, blundered at the last jump aud fell. This i3, of course, not the beginning for which Mr. Hitchcock had hoped, but from all accounts of the horses schooling and from the reports of yesterdays race the owner and tha , admirers of Orthodox should not be discouraged au to his future through the field. He was a remarkably speedy horse on the flat, and this quality should give him an advantage over- many, horses of equal size and strength when he, learns to tako his fences with natural ease and confidence. Orthodox was bred by August Belmont io the Nursery Stud in Kentucky, and was raced by the Chairman of the Jockey Club eight times as a two-year-old In 1903, but not successfully. Tins best he could do for Mr. Belmont was two seconds In October of that year, Mr. Belmont sold him to M. L. Hayman and it was In the colors of the latter that he scored the nine victories of his career-three as a two-year-old, four as a three-year-old, and two as a four-year-old. The first race he ever won was an allowance race for all ages at a "mile, over the Aqueduct track, October 29, 1903. Redfera rode him at ninety-eight, pounds and he ,ran. ,the mile in 1:40. The horse that can do that as a two-year-old has more than ordinary merit. Hla chief distinction, however, came as a three-year-old. Carrying 100 pounds at Aqueduct on November 3, 1904, he ran a mile in 1:38. That Is the record at that track. Orthodox made his last start on the flat;, at Jamaica, October 23, 1005. Mr. Hayman had coma to the conclusion that he had staled off too much to make a campaign at the winter tracks and sold him to Mr. Hitchcock, who had previously expressed a desire to have him for steeplecbaslng. Here is a record of Orthodoxs races on the flat: 1903 15 3 4 1 lt 1904 ..23 4 3 2 13 1905 ...21 2 0 2 17 Total ............... ... . Z 7 "i SZ
