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a VALUABLE JUMPING RACE SATURDAY Baltimore. Md.. May S.— Tlie Maryland Jockey Club has arranged an elaborate program for next Saturday, the feature of which will lie the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, a handicap for four-year olds ami over, with ,000 added. All the most promising jumpers in the country huve been nominated to this stake and it will in all probability bring together one of the largest fields that has contested a race through the field in many a year. Brooks, the Manly Memorial winner of last year, qualified for the Green Spring Valley in the steeple chase of Saturday, in which he showed the way for nearly two miles. So did Pussv Willow, which won. Brooks will bear the silks of Capt. Joseph E. Davis next Saturday, and Pussv Willow will race under the silks of Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia. The quality of the pimping of these good fencers is distinctly better than it was last year. But they are going to have plenty of first-rate opposition. W. R. Coe will lie represented by Bet, also the promising four year-old Gold Bond: Mrs. G. 11. P.iowne bv Fair Mac. the Glen Riddle Stable bv Brentwood, winner of the Baltimore Steeplechase of two years back, also Emerald |__B II.; Mrs. J. M. Garth bv Rhomb, the Greentree Stable by Cherry Malotte. Walter M. Jeffords by West Meath. John I.umsden by Candle. Capt. Ral Parr by Robert Oliver. William A. Prime by Silver Dart. J. K. L. Ross by Early Light and Sixty Four. Morion L. Schwartz by Arciidale. Edward M. Weld by either Wehlship or St. Charlcote. and Edward B. McLean bv either Sim King or Pandean. These jumpers are as fit as the flat horses. Pan dean, which was ouee a high-class flat runner, has shown notable improvement as to both jumping and temiter.
