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AMATEURS MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR. Hunt Meetings Will Undouhtedly Attract Best Hunters and Steeplechasers in Country. Amateur thoroughbred racing in 1917 promises to have its most successful year. The United Hunts Pacing Association, the Kockaway Hunting Club and the Piping Back Baring Association have unwaged programs for their meetings which undoubtedly will attract the best hunters and steeplechase horses in the country. Bach of them has added new -takis to its list. The United Hunts will hold its inciting at ltd in cit Park Terminal on May 1:1 and May P . While Bach of the six races on he program will be a feature in itself, the limber Toppers Champion Chase and he United Hunts Double Kvent will probably attract most attention. The Double Brent, as the name implies, will be a two time affair. race to be run in the spring and 1ie other in he autumn. It Is a subscription of .SI. KM and promises to be the richest race be Ivv. -n the flags in America. It is for four year-olds end ov.-r, over a course measuring about three miles. The Timber Toppers Champion Chase will be decided on May PI. It is for banters three years old and over. It has a value of $], Kill. The chase will be decided over a four mile timber course. New Stake at Tiping- Rock. l-or the meeting of th-- Pipim; |„. k Baring ha a elation at its |y.. -u;t all.y course, there will be a new sporting race for t wo-y. ar olds. This new fixture is known as the Aspirant Plate It will be over the fiv. eighths distance. Thirty-eight nominations have been made by nineteen Sportsmen. This race will take the place of the Piping Keck Invitation Handicap, which was one of the truly hi:: two year old races of former years. Last year it was won bjr Harry Pa.vne Whitneys Hwfa. Being a private sweepstakes. Hwfa did not ham hi-stall. ling a - a Htaideu after his victory, but the recent am. mini, its to the rules of racing wiped out the exemption of sweepstakes in computing winnings, so that race was d-elared off ami the Aspirant Plat.- was framed. Th.- n. v. nee is ahm a swetpa takes and cots WOO to send a -tarter to the post, while the Piping Pock Association will add a piece of plat,- of the value of fJBM. Cits ami geldings are to carry lis pounds and fillies II.. pounds. The response to the new race has been particularly gratifying and practicnU the same subscribers as were found in the Invitation Handicap are loan. I in the list. tatoag the subscribers are Joseph i;. Whtener, Richard T. Wilson. Harry Payne Whitney, apt. Edward B. Cassatt, Uifforid A. Cochran, ..org. v. Loft. Frederick Johnson, c. K. C. Billings, Mr. and .Mrs. Joseph K. Davis. W. P. Coo. George D. Wide ner, Herbert L. Pratt, P. 1-. Whitney and Morton L. Bchwartn. Imported Juveniles. r.ii.-!it of the juv. nil. s named are Imparted, fallowing is a lit of the liomiiialioiis: .1. B. Davis Superman. Wetona. Mrs. .1. K. Davis Care Man. .1. B. Widen. ■■ "s Seafarer, br. g, by Carry Bar-m inn Ocean Bound ; Ming. B. P. t aaaatti Daedalus. B, T. Wilson, .Ir.s br. g. by Helnet Unman Cold; Woodthrush, ch. f. by Olambala -ITaatasque. W. B. Gees Nutcracker, Phalcrinn, Marco Polo. George D. Wideaera Phatnrie, Pose d*Or, Abu-dune. Gilford A. Cochrans b. f, by ffadlnm Tat tin. Bugltou •-. Amackni sin. Mis. s. McNnnghtona George Clark. Clown Stabbs Svengali. Nassau Stables Kokohi. Poor Butterfly. Herbert L. Pratt", Came Cock. c. K. G. Bluings BafUade. Frederick Johnsons Peace and Plenty. Morton L. Schwartz Approval, Heredity, Common Law. Edward V. Whitneys Contender, Winning Card. J. I . II inag a. Jr.s Tt a Party. Hurry Pnyne Whitacys Happy Jo Luck-.-, ch e. by Whisk Broom II. -Inaugural. George W. Loftn Don Jose, Arrah Ge On. Program at Rockav.-ay. Twetre race . mrluding siaenaeeha •■• . aeer paat and rails an i sprints an the flat, make up the program of the annaal banter an! pony races i t! reteraa Bockaway Hunting Club, to be heM on the pictiir. ; pie course ai Hewlett Bay Park an April -s end May ... I his two day meeting will in lugurate the ll»17 s-.m.i of amatem Iwrfrongbleed racing, being the first racing in tin- north and ope,,. the out.ii... r social season in this ricinity. At Hi.- outbreak of war the fi.-a huputoe of the .-bib members was to cancel tieir annual races. ii ■ recommendations of various arm;,- officers, in-eluding Gen. Leonard Wood, that borne racing be continued be.-aus,. ,f its beneficial effcri on horse breeding and training. 1..I to the decision of the Bockaway Hunting Club to hold its meeting this sp: ing as scheduled. this will be the fifth cusceulive season that the Inaugural meeting has been l.ehl in the Hewlett Bay r.irk coarse, which experts pronounce the best in America and a fitting rival of the famous Melbourne Cap course in Australia.— New York Sun.
