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HITCHCOCK HARBOR HILL CANDIDATES. Saratoga, N. Y., August 21. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., lias concluded not to try to get Mellowmiut, the Ben Holladay three-year-old he recently purchased, ready for the Harbor Hill Steeplechase, the premier lumping event for three-year-olds. The Harbor Hill is run at Belmont Park in October and the steeplechase fraternity is indebted to the munificence of Clarence II. Mackay for It. Mellowmlnt has bad no experience at jnmping and it Is Improbable that lie could in two months become sufficiently proficient at the art to hold his own with horses that have been schooling since early spring. Mr. Hitchcock has -two other Harbor Hill candidates. Clockwork, a son of Ogden and Set Fast, and Oakhurst. a son of Ogdeit and Helen Thomas. These horses have schooled cleanly and Mr. Hitchcock is confident of getting one of them to the post at Belmont Park in condition to make a good showing. August Dubos, chief steward of the steeplechase board at Auteuil. writes Mr. Hitchcock that his jumpers In France are doing well. The best of them are California King and Stokes. Stokes is pronounced one of the smartest four-year-old chasers in France. California King was shipped to Franco last month, after ho limped out of a chase at Sheepsliead Bay. At that time It seemed wholly improbable that California King would train again, but Mr. Hitchcock, who has gone to the expense of shipping him to a country where steeplechasing is a highly specialized art and only the fittest jumpers survive, believes that he will make good.
