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GREGG PROMISING JUMPER SAMUEL ROSS SHOWS UP LIKELY CHASER IN RACE AT PIMLICO. John Whalens Pullux Is Returned Winner of Seven-FuTlcnsr Dash for Two-Year-Olds Selling Handicaps in Favor at Maryland Course. Baltimore, Md., November 4. Samuel Ross three-year-old Gregg, by Martinet Ethel Scruggs, won the Junior Steeplechase at Plmlico this afternoon iu a canter. This race was the star number of a good program offered by the Maryland Jockey Club and it attracted the best of the youuger division of jumpers, including Single Stick, winner of the Harbor liill. Single Sticks performance was distinctly disappointing. He lacked speed and had his stable companion, Devoter. stood up he would have beaten, the Harbor Hill winner. Gregg ran a first class race and appears to be a promising jumper, but he might not have won had Ral Parrs Escocia not come to grief at the eleventh fence. Gregg and Escocia are in the Garth stable and the former was looked upon as the letter, but Escocia rau a smart race and was leading when he went down. He showed the way for the greater part, of the journey, alternating with Devoter. When Escocia fell, Gregg went into the lead and Devoter took second place, only to fall at the twelfth jump. Gregg had no opposition from that point to the end. fscocla is a big, lumbering son of Oruus and Godchild and is highly regarded by his stable connections. The Arlington Purse, for two-year-olds, at seven furlongs, ranked next in lmiKrtance to the steepe-chase and went to John Whalens Pullux. which won in a drive with Embroidery. The latter was outrun early, but came with a rush at the end. Four of the seven races on the days card were selling handicaps, which appear to be in much favor. The first race of the day was a two-year-old selling affair, in which Hal Parrs Captain Parr scored, after Egmout had shown the way to the last sixteenth. Egmont outran his company and appeared to have the race won when Captain Parr came along and beat him. Jockey J. Smyth was an arrival from Latonia today. II. G. Bedwell has obtained first call on his services for the remainder of the Plmllcw meeting. Smyth will probably go with the Bedwell establishment to Charleston and Cuba. Capt. P. j .JLV Walker received word that the stallion, IHsa"jesty and the mares, Connemara and Early Rose," hart arrived safely at his Paige Brook Farm in Clark county, Virginia. His Majesty will make the season at Uapt. Walkers farm next yean and besides Mr. Cochrans two mares, he will be mated with Capt. AValkers Isldora. Capt. Walker has decided to mate Fanchette with bis own stallion. Hard of Hope. E. Cautino has shipped the two liorses, Willie Waddell and Aguila, back to San Juan, Porto Rico, where they will be raced during the coming winter.
