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MARYLAND HUNT CUP RACE CrossCountry Sporting Event and the Fine Olivier Farm Course for It The twentyeighth annual race for the Maryland Hunt Cup Steeplechase is a notable crosscountry event The prize is the Gold Challenge Cup first offered in 1013 and won hist year by Mrs Mad ¬ duxs Oracle II Entries to the Maryland Cup Race close April 21 There Is no prize money None la needed The honor to the cup holder and horse are worth the efforts of victory The race is for gentleman riders weights 155 pounds with five pounds allowance for fiveyearolds fifteen pounds for fouryiarolds and overweights are allowed allowedThe The cup race will take place Saturday April 30 at 4 p m at Five Farms the name of the estate of Mr Stuart Olivier chairman of the Mary ¬ land Racing Commission This will be the first time the race has been contested on the Olivier place which is situated about two miles west of Timonium a station on the Northern Central rail road and the location of the Baltimore County Fair Grounds and race course courseTin Tin Olivier property is on the borderland of both the Elkridge and Green Spring Valley Hunt Clubs country and was the scene of a joint meet of the two clubs during the past hunting season It is well situated on a eminence with gently rolling hills and valleys and a good view of probably three fourths of the course can be obtained from various K ints of vantage near the big barn The start of the race will be in a field a little southwest of the barn and the finish to the north cast of it There will be about twentyfour jumps mostly post and rail and plank and there are only two loops or turns of any consequence one to the left shortly after the start and one to the right about one and onehalf miles from the finish Tin last half of the course is practically level over the grass with hardly any plowed hind during the entire journey journeyThe The new Maryland cup course is about as open and clean a one as has been offered during the twentyseven renewals of the cup and should afford an excellent test of the speed stamina and jumping abilities of the contestants contestantsThe The field will probably consist of alout fifteen or sixteen of the best crosscountry performers from the hunting centers of Virginia Pennsylvania and Maryland with a possibility of a few from New York The most skillful amateur riders in these sections will have mounts Previous winners of the Maryland Hunt Cup are as follows Year Owner Winner WinnerISJt WinnerJohnny ISJt Mr McIIonry Johnny Millor 1895 Sixty1S90 Mr George Sixty 1S90 Mr Whistler Kingsbiifv 1897 Mr Spence Little Giant Giant1S9S 1S9S Mr P Stewart Squire Squire18JJ 18JJ Mr Piper Reveller Reveller1JOO 1JOO Mr G Brown Tom Clark 1901 Mr ODniiovim Garry Owen Owen190U 190U Mr ODonuvaii Carry Owen 1903 Mr W J H Walters Princeton Princeton190t 190t Mr R Stewart Landslide 1905 Mr S Walters Princeton Princeton190i 190i Mr W J H Walters Princeton 1907 Mr ODonovan Garry Owen OwenJudge 1808 Mr Piper Judge Parker 1909 Miss Fell Sacandaga 1910 MtU Devereux Sacandaga 1911 Mr A Brown Pebbles 1912 Mr Rlakistcn Conbe 1913 Mr Willing Zardu 114 Mr Mather Rutliind 1915 Mr Pinkerton Talisman 1910 Mr Wilson Bourgeois 1917 Mr Clothier Brosseau 1918 Mr P Stewart MarcelliniiH 1919 Mr ISrewster Chuckatuck 1920 JIM JIaddux Oracle II The exact lay of the course and character of the jumps has not yet been fully determined upon but they are practically the same as outlined above
