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STEEPLECHASERS AT P1MLIC0 «. Arriving in Large Numbers for . Maryland Jockey Ciub Meeting. — •• Many Valuable Races Through the Field Attracting All the Best Timber Toppers. Knltiuiorc. Md.. April 19. — Sti-eplechasers nrc ~;ithcriug fast at Iimlico track for the carnival of • toss -country racing tliat will mark the coming May •ac-cting of the Maryland Jockey Club. The renewal •! the Crccu Spring Valley steeplechase ran- will be ilM- bright, particularly feature of Pimlicos crosscountry program, but there will lie from one to two sos-plcchases each day and the values of these spectacular races will range from 00 to .r»00 in uddisl money. An arrival of the current w-ck from Penning InA is Matt Brady with Brooks, the Texas -bred -•••Minn. which won the Manly Memorial at Imilico last fall nndi-r the silks of Cant. Joseph K. Davis: The Decision, which is equally good on the flat and through the field. Melodrama and one or tm others of less celebrity. Brooks, like The Dc-fisi«.ii. can run equally as well on the flat as over the jmniis. Melodrama is a promising four-year-.J l. Jcrr;- Carrol! got in las| week with the jumpers .r the stable of W. R. Coo. including Bet and the four -year-olds Cold Bond and Town Hall, the two : i.-t finished one-two in last falls renewal of the lUkridge, Pimlicos steeplechase for three-year-old fencers. Cold Bond, which was developed last year l y Frank Farrar. tlie m:iu who made a jumiier of the spi iuter New Haven, has matured into one of the grandest looking cross-country types to lie found :i!iyu l.i r . William Garth, who knows quite a lot .■ilmiit juniper* : n l who has s ane good ones himself, declares that Cold Bond i* the liest looking four- ear-old timber topiier in the country. And Farrar. the developer of this horse, is making a jumper of Disturber, which will have his first trial through flu? field at Havre lc Crace some time before the • lose of the Harford spring meeting. With these veterans Carroll has a couple of green four-year-olds Mr. Cite bought in th west last fall. Xat Byer- additions to the Pimlico steeplechase «-olo:iy ;ire A. J. Davis King Simon. Fugelad. Rai-e-brook and Standout, ami IV S. 1*. Randolphs Re |H-iitant. Byer is racing Racehtook at Havre de Grace. The others will lie ready for he Iimlico meeting. John Hastings has arrived from Belmont Iark with Morton I.. Schwartz Arehdale. Ormes Head and Alby. and James Owens is expected in a few days with the jumpers of the Greentn-e Stable, the performers of which ari* Cherry Ma-lotte. Syosset. Al Reeves. Tetau and Web Carter. H. W. SAGE HORSES NOT TO RACE. When Tim Donohue arrived here from the Cenes-•■■•*• Valley with hi- own fencers, The Brook. Saturn and Elysian. the last named a three-year-old Har-ln»r Hill and Elkridge aspirant for this year, he i *|icctcd to have Iebeto and one or two other veteran jumpers belonging to Harry W. Sage shipped down by the first week in April. But the Sage fencers will not come. Douohue has received word from Mr. Sage, who is serving with an am-bulauce unit on the French front, that these horses will not race again until the end of the war. Donohue is fitting The Brook for the Green Spring Valley by work on the flat and he thinks well of Saturn, a green jumper he bought last year from Mike Daly when Dalv took over the horses of Mr. ami Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords stable. Bonis Feustel. the trainer this year of the nkk of Samuel D. Kiddie of Philadelphia, has the Glen Kiddle jumiiers at Havre de Crace track and he says that Brentwood, winner of the Baltimore steeplechase of 1910. under the silks of Major Thomas Hitchcock, will race again this year ami rai-e to bis lie-t form. Brentwood is a big chestnut gelding by Bryn Mawr — Elizabeth B.. which Mr. Hitchcock developed in South Carolina. Ue won the International Steeplechase from Marcellinus at Belmont Iark. after taking the Baltimore at Iimlico and. on tie* form he showed at Queens. Mr. Kiddle paid Mr. Hitchcock S.YtHHl for him. Brent wood is seven-years-old now ami. thanks to his let up last year, he i- going soundly. He wintered with the other horses of the Kiddle and Jeffords stables at Clen Riddle Kami, in Worci sier County. Maryland, and arrived at Havre de Crace about readj f"r the colors. He is to have a race at the Harford County track a* part of his Crecn Spring Valley preparation. With Brentwood at Havre de Crace are the juiiiliers Clootz. a half-brother of Coligny and El Cuchillo. Emerald Isle and Snundcrsfoot and all of them ire in fir-t rate condition. Fred Williams, disailioiuted at not lieing admitted to service in tie* flying corps of the diked States army, will ride the Glen Kiddle jumpers, pending action on his ■paUratbm for another chalice to qualify for tin aviation service. The fl.M limners of the Clen Kiddle Stable in IVostcF* char-re are Bully Boy. a potential lreak im vs candidate: Yankee Witch. Kadames. Generous ami King John and the two- ■.•ar-olds Star Fancj. a ehestnut filly by Star Shoot -Dolly Higgins; CTiiella. a t-beslurt filly by Star Shoot — Pas-t.rilla: Coiite de Fee. a brown col t by Sardanapalc — Arabia: Major Ivmo. ;! chestnut colt by The Manager- Lucy Hrtll i.aii The Saint, a brown colt by 8«iu— Nanette.
