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CRACK ENGLISH JUMPER COMING OVER. Several iiUtphr hsnrn of great re-put. ■ are on the high seas en route from England to this country, if tiny have not arrived by this time. "Mr. Stokes" hat two maris coming over that are sisters and Ih.iIi capital bardie racers and steeplechasers, being Mead owsweet and Savannah, by Yankee Campo. II. I". Whitney i- -eliding ov.i the seV n y.ai old gelding Men . lliii. is. l.v DArenburg May Dunn. This i- a leas., likely to prove troublesome to ..ur best Jnmp era and be is ■ hand] inns i the tl.it. in four starts this v.ii he won tarn races and was » d in another. Ukiag the Harrington Steeplechase ..I two miles at Leicester February :;. with 17." pounds lip. and tin Middle*.. Steeplechase of two miles al Hnist Park January 17. when carrying 163 pounds. Last fear he ran in eight race-, of which be WOO tiv. and was second in one, bcsaaVn falling in his * lir-t race. Two ol his victories were in heavy weight Hal races, he taking the Corinthian Welter Handicap of two miles at Bandown Park Jane 27, When curving 159 pounds and a similar race of a mil. and live-eighths at Ayr, September 19, with ]i;7 pounds in I he -addle. Early in the year he won thlee steeplechases in -noces-ion. taking the Parley Steeplechase at Batwk-k January s. the Middlesex Steeplechase si Hnrsl Park January lx. and the Ketupton Park Steepleckaae at Keuiotou Park Jana arj 2a In the bitter race at a hundred yards more than tWO miles and a half, he del. ■ale. I such Grand "National horses a- Glen Heston, Clondalkin, Carri- •llie Coiiviefeil and Jacobus. Mr. Whitney bought him a couple -.f months back and Joyner has been using him al Newaurkel to bad his other boraei ia training.
