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GREAT BAND OF JUMPERS FOR PIMLIC0 Brooks, St. Charlcote, Weldship and Other Stars of Last Year Due at the Track. Baltimore. Md.. April 0. — Pimlicos May meeting may Is* marked by better steeplechasing than has Im-cii witnessed in these parts in springtime in recent years. Maj. Thomas Hitchcock, now the executive officer of the army aviation camp on Long Island, who has brought many a great juiu|M-r to Maryland in the past, will be missed. Major Hitch cock sold all of his horses, flat runners and steeplechasers alike, when he entered the war as an active participant. Nor will the colors of H. W. Sage be seen. Nevertheless, there will be plenty of s| orts men of the first class at Pimlico and they will he represented by Jumpers as high in quality as any that have raced in Maryland in other years. Maryland sportsmen who will make nominations for the Green Spring Valley and Pimlicos other crosscountry s|iccials are: apt. Kal Parr. J. S. Cosden. C. E. Clement. J K L. Ross. Samuel I. Riddle. Walter M. Jeffords. Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords. Charles K Harrison and Jere Wheelwright. Other supporters of the fascinating cross-country sjmrt who have bes|Miken stabling room at Pimlico arc: Kdward B. McLean. John Lumsden. F. Ambrose Clark. Koliert Gecyy, Mrs. Payne Whitney. Mrs. Edward B. McLean, iapt. Joseph E. Davis, r. S. A.: Maj. Charles K. Rockwell. U. S. A.; Sydney Joseph-thai. E. M. Weld. Timothy Donohue. Allan P. Har-ver. James Mac.Manus. Herbert L. Pratt. W. A. Prime. Joseph E. Widener. George I. Widener. Morton L. Schwartz. Charles Schwartz. T. P. Thome. II. R. A. West. J. S. Tyree. W. R. Coo. Mortimer L. Sehiff and Archibald Barklie. The horses of these votaries of the most spectacular feature of racing will lie thoroughly seasoned, too. whether they wintered in Maryland and New York or in the south The weather, these nine weeks, all along the Atlantic seaboard has been ideal for schooling jumpers and the trainers of the cross-country staldes. great and small, have taken full advantage of their opportunities. The weed-grown course at Kenning has been the most popular training and schooling ground in this neighborhood. But there has lieen a great deal of activity at Belmont Park and Pimlico these four or five weeks, and many sportswomen and sportsmen, notably the Wideners. Mrs. Whitney. Mr. McLean. Mr. Barklie. the Jeffords and Mr. Riddle, have had their training done at private places. Mrs. Whitneys place at Red Bank. N. J., close by Brookdale farm: Joseph E. Wideners place at Ogonz. Pa.: Mr. McLeans place at Warreiiton and Mr. Riddles place at Berlin. Md.. are as well equipped for schooling steeplechasers as the best appointed and most carefully kept race courses in the lnit--d States. BROOKS HAS WINTERED WELL. Brooks, the winner of the greatest of last seasons steeplechases, the Manly Memorial at Pimlico. has wintered splendidly at Penning track, under the eye of Matt Brady. Brooks will bear the silks of apt. Joseph E. Davis. U. S. A., as will also the promising four-year-old Melodrama, the five-year-old The Decision, anil Dr. Barlow, a big four-year-old by Toddington. with which Captain Davis hopes to win a Manly Memorial some time in the future. William Garth has the jumiiers of the Wheelwright -Purr stable at Kenning and among them arc Shannon River. Ballyhay. Captain Parr. Warlock. Royal Spinner. Koliert Oliver, etc. Garth, also, has the jumpers of the stables of Mr. and Mrs. McLean, the most distinguished members of which are Sun King. Pandean. Sandman II., Distant Shore. Bonnie Laddie and Dorcris. Major Rockwells fencers at the Kenning track are The Carmet and Gloster and Mr. Tyrees are the brothers. King Neptune and Sea Gull, both Virginian bred. King Neptune is one of steeplechasings most promising recruits. John Shields has undertaken his cross-country education and he has found in the big brown son of Sea King — Toots a precocious pupil. Sea Gull, a better set up horse for weight packing than King Neptune, has not done so much in the field, but he also shows promise. He is a |Hiwerfnl four-year-old, endowed with all the speed a jumping horse requires. He does not sulk in the field as he did on the flat. Two of the best looking horses of the Lumsden stable at Kenning, which is made up mostly of foreign-bred two. three and four-year-olds, are the green jumiiers Candle and Between Us. Jack Richardson has been at work schooling them since last NnvemlRT. Candle is the more precocious of the pair. He worked over a turn and a half of the Kenning field in the presence of Mr. Lumsden. who is in Maryland looking for a farm, without a mistake a day or so ago. Between Is did not do so well, but he stood tip handsomely for a turn of the field. Lumsden has not much hope of seeing either Candle or Between Us at the post in the Green Spring Valley. They are too raw for anything like that. But he is confident that one or both will, in the course of the summer, qualify for the coming Manly Memorial. Tim Donohue has come down from the Genesee Valley in New York with The Brook. Ormead. Saturn, a green one but promising; Elysian, a three-year-old by the French stallion, Macdonald II. This one is Donohiics Harbor Hill and Elkridge candidate. ST. CHARLCOTE AND WELDSHIP COMING. John Kermath is due at Pimlico this week with E. M. Welds brilliant St. Charlcote, also Weld-ship and the English fencer. Silver Dart. H. G. Bedwell is training Early Light, Welsh King. Sixty Four and one or two Ameriean-breds. with three fast jumping Irish fencers for Commander Ross, and they "will be put over the course in front of a crowd at Havre de Grace before they ship to Pimlico. James Owens will come down from Red Bank next week with Cherry Malotte. Al Reeves. Syosset. Svosset II. and the other fencers of the stable of Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Howard Lewis will conn-over from Philadelphia with eight, some of them veterans, some new hands, belonging to Joseph E. Widener. M litre Corbeau, Expectation. Louvois. Doublet and Pussy Willow are the formidable veterans of the Widener stable and there are several new ones. Samuel D. Kiddle probably will have one of the prominent fencers of tin- year in Martian, a black gelding by Bowling Brook! Tim Donohue devehqied for Henry W. Sage. Mr. Riddle bought Martian last summer when Mr. Sage entered the French ambulance service. Martian will probably be better this year liecause of his exiierience of last year. Hibbler. Falmouth, Torero and Tener are the best jumping prospects in p. Ambrose Clarks band, and Wilfrid Viau has decided to have Skeerface and maylie Trial by Jury schooled for the field. W. K. Gee lias a good but rather erratic steeplechaser in Bet and lietter prosiiects in the four-year-olds Town Hall and Cold Bond, both of which have wintered satisfactorily. James Mac Manns iias a five-year-old of better than average promise in Curraghaleen. Herliert L. Pratt has not despaired of the flashy black. Raz-zano. and Morton L. Schwartz thinks pretty well of Alley. Archdale and Ormes Head. Beside these veterans of more or less good repute there are several score of new ones coming on.
