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UNITED HUNTS DOUBLE EVENT ENTRIES Best Steeplechasers in the Country to Be Seen Under Colon Next Saturday at Belmont Park Terminal NEW YORK N Y June 7 Americas best steeplechasers will be seen under colors next Satur ¬ day afternoon at Belmont Park Terminal in the United Hunts Double Event at two miles Frank J Bryan the official bandicapper has allotted the weights for this most important of the spring races through the field to more than a score of the great ¬ est jumpers in training which will make their re ¬ spective bids for the 4000 prize and the 400 plate added by W R Coe which will go to the owner of the winner The meeting aroused a wealth of interest among sportsmen who go in for both the flat and steeplechase ends of the sport with the entry comprising a roster of the most important men on the turf turfJ J E Griffiths The Brook acknowledged the greatest crosscountry horse since the days of Good and Plenty gets in the Double Event at 170 pounds witli the weights scaling down to 130 for the trio nominated by Mrs W A Prime Among the other subscribers are Mrs Walter M Jeffords F Ambrose Clark Herbert L Pratt Greentree Stable Mrs Payne Whitney Joseph E Widener and William R Coe Mr Widener has named a strong quintet in Skibbereen Duettiste Doublet Pussy Willow and Stonewood the latter being the most recent win ¬ ner of the Grand National at Bclmont Park on Thursday last lastThe The complete entry with the conditions for the event is as follows followsFirst First day Saturday June 14 IfllO Fourth race The United Hunts Double Event Steeplechase To be run at the spring and autumn meetings 1919 Spring event about two miles Autumn event about three miles Subscriptions 500 which will entitle subscribers to have a starter in each event One half of the subscription money to the winner of each event Subscriptions close Tuesday May 6 1919 1919Spring Spring event Handicap Steeplechase For four yearolds and over 250 of each subscription and u piece of plate value 2501 to the winner Each subscriber to have the privilege of naming any number of horses which he may own or lease for each subscription the same to be named to the clerk of the course fifteen days before the day set for the running of the race and two to be named three days before the day set for the running of tlie race One of tlip tpx to be named as aHturtec forty five minutes before post time for the race Weights to be announced ten days before the day set for the running of the race Winners after the publica ¬ tion of the weight to carry five pounds additional About two miles Horse Wt Horse Wt The Brook 170 Turmoil 137 Hibler 145 W F Knebelkamp137 Skibbereen 145 Babcock 136 Stonewood 144 Elysian 135 Tnimpator 143 Pussy Willow 135 Crest Hill 142 Mr Ned 133 Doublet 142 Big Four 132 Syosset 142 Decisive 132 Duettiste 140 Commodore Gaunt 130 Tetan 14 Full Cry 130 Mademoiselle 138 Meshach 130 Turmoil has been named under the subscription of J E Griffith and W R Coe
