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INTEREST IS RIFE IN THE HARBOR HILL. Billy Garth Believes in T. S. Martin St. Kevin May Bring the Cup to Mr. Cotton. New York, October 13. If history repeats itself, St. Kevin will win the Harbor Hill Steeplechase Cup at Belmont Park next Thursday and the beuti-ful sliver trophy, which in addition to the ,000 is given by Clarence H. Mackay, will become the permanent property of Mr. Cotton. This race for three-year-old jumpers had its first running last year and was won by Mr. Cottons Delcanta. Delcanta had previously won the race which was taken by St. Kevin last Thursday. However, it would be hard to convince many local race-goers and particularly the .owners of several of the Harbor Hill eligibles, just at this stage, that history is going to repeat itself. T. S. Martin won the first of the three races that have been run by these youngsters. In the sec-.ond lie. unshipped, his rider and . the s ra.ee--.went to Commodore Fontaine. He was not eligible trrstart in the race won by St. Kevin. It was for maidens. In the first two races Realm finished second. His showing in the third was too bad to be true. In the race won by St. Kevin, Mr. McCann was a close contender in fast time. So here are five horses that must be given the deepest consideration. Indeed, there will be some sharp betting on this race Thursday. It is clear that Gwyn Tompkins is training a horse of good class in St. Kevin, and no man who handles steeplechasers better understands schooling a jumper than he does. St. Kevin was bred at James R. Keenes Castleton Stud, and he is u full brother to Virginia Earle and a half brother to Stolen Moments and Ballot. Cerito, his dam, is one of the most highly prized of the matrons at Castleton; She is a. daughter of Lowland Chief Merry Dance, by Don caster. Her second dam was .Highland Fling,, by Scottish Chief. Tompkiiis has been working on St. Kevin the better part of the year and he is confident the St. Leonards gelding has learned the art of jumping. One thing is certain St. Kevin knows the Belmont Park course like a book. The big jumps do not daunt him in the least. Altogether, Mr. Cotton has every reason to feel that he lias as good a horse this season as he had last year In Delcanta. Billy Garth is unreserved in his claim that T. S. Martin will win the narbor mil. He saw St. Kevin win and said after the race: "T. S. Martin will beat that fellow fifty or sixty yards." Garth is not afraid T. S. Martin will make the mistake he did In his second race at Brighton. Gallagher did not know the Virginia gelding well and took him too briskly to his first fence. That was the reason the horse pecked and unseated him. Terry, the regular rider of the Garth stable, who will have the mount in the Harbor Hill, has schooled T. S. Martin all summer and understands the gelding. In Mr. McCann the Neville-Pfizer combination will have a good representative. Mr. McCann is not as fast a jumper as Herculoid, but he is an eminently safe one, and he learned something Thursday. He was as green as could be the first three-quarters of a mile. He all but halted before his fences, and, after taking them, landed flatfooted. But when he got well into the spirit of the race be braced up valiantly and ran and jumped the last mile and a quarter like a veteran. Mr. McCann is a thoroughly schooled and trained horse. Eugene Finnegan will ride him.
