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PIMLICOS NEW AMATEUR FEATURE. Baltimore, Mil.. September 10. The Maryland Jockey Club will make the Pink . Coat Steeplechase, a three-mile race for hunters with gentlemen riders, which will be run for the lirst time this fall, a permanent feature of its racing program. The race will this season bo almost entirely a Virginia and Maryland affair. Eleven hunters have been nominated for it. Including W. Stewart Diffenderfers Forest Hawk, Ivan Foxs St. Wilfred, J. L. Garthrights Young Blitzen, Colonel Robert Nevilles Ardmore, Ital Parrs Amiable. Autumn Leaf and The Captain. Gilbert Riemans Topright. W. C. Saunders West Over. Robert N. Sloans Tom Bone, and Courtland II. Smiths Village King. Mr. Diffenderfer, who has a fine farm near Baltimore, owns Racine and bred Forest Hawk, his son: Hal Parr, is a popular clubman of the Monumental City, and Colonel Neville. Mr. Garthright, Mr. Saunders and Mr. Smith belong in the old Dominion. Young Blitzen. Ardmore and West Over are Virginia-bred, and Amiable, Autumn Leaf and The Captain are products of Maryland tanns. Amiable and The Captain are by the late Mr. Halls old horse Buddha, and Autumn Leaf, a half-bred. Is a daughter of Racine and Hod Leaf. Mr. Fox. the nominator of St. Wilfred, is a Pennsylvanian and will bear watching at Plnilico this fall. Mr. Fox develops his own. horses and he does irot fool with bad ones. He took Honielauder to Baltimore last fall and made a killing with the son of Long Island. The Pink Coat is destined to great- popularity. Maryland folk are ardent votaries of the chase. Every other gentleman in the country of the Cal-vcrts owns a hunter or two and can ride like a jockey.
