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NESTOR A PROMISING STEEPLECHASER. New York, September 21. Nestor, the Golden Garter Amourette three-year-old that William Garth is training for the Harbor Hill Steeplechase for Morton and Charles Schwartz, continues to do well. Most of the cross-country folk seem to think that Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., has a mortgage on the Harbor Hill, and there is no denying that he has a couple of promising young jumpers in Clockwork and Oakhurst. Mr. Garth says, however, that Mr. Hitchcock will have to send out another Stokes if he wants to beat Nestor. The Schwartz brothers purchased Nestor at the Thomas sale last year for 00 and taught him his first steps themselves. He was schooled as a two-year-old. and from the very beginning he seemed to take a liking to fencing. Morton Schwartz is inclined to fear that Nestor may not stay, but Mr. Garth has no apprehension on that score. Mr. Hitchcock will make no effort to get Siellow-mint ready for the Harbor Hill. The nomination of that big good-looking son of Ben Holladay was not seriously intended. When Mr. Hitchcock purchased Mellowinint it was with the intention of putting him through the steeplechase field, but bo did not hope to fit him for a Harbor Hill on eight or nine weeks notice. Mr. Hitchcocks Ogden geldings, like Nestor, began their lessons in steeplecliasing early. The West bury sportsman schooled both of them last fall before they had attained their third birthday. It is improbable that Mr. Hitchcock will have Salvidero ready for the ,000 Champion. He did not begin serious work with the big chestnut gelding by Belvidere out of Sallie of Navarre until he returned from France last June. Salvidere is going soundly and he is not a bad jumper. Mr. Hitchcock is confident that he will win a Champion some day. but he hardly hopes to take down the Champion of 1000 with the gelding.
