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, . t j j . ~v . .. ■ L f DUETTISTE IS IN BIG CHASE; American Gelding Entered for Liverpool Grand National with Many Jumping Cracks. LONDON. England. January 18.— The American jumper Duetti-tc is among Ihe entries for the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, to be run at Aintree March 24 next. All the best horses in the Hnglish and Irish jumping divisions are anions those entered. Notables among tbem are Always, which for a time was favorite for last years race, only to meet with leg trouble and he scratched early in February, and Shaun Spadah. la-t years winner. Among the entries is Square Lp. the old Simon Square — Catnpana gelding, owned by W. A. Read, the American oil man, who lives here. The French have in some of their best jumpers also. Grmnf National weights are not allotted by han-dicapper Topham until January 26. The range is 175 pounds high and 140 pounds low. This years t;rand National has 5,000 added, as it had last season. Huettiste is deing well and in daily wart at Lewes in Su-sex, where H. Escott trains his baraea. He will soon be ready and is likely to lx-• seen in public at the London course of Kempton Park. January 23, two days after the Grand Kalian weights are issued, in the S2.500 Cranfotd Handicap, at three miles, in which a notably good lot of twenty-one horses arc entered. Among them ate many Grand National cutties, such as Shaun Spadah, Sir Huon. Silver Ring, Southhampton. The Bore. Old Tay Biidge. the American-owned Square lp. Pally SOC. Blazing Corn and Chin Chin. The weights were issued for the Cranbrook today. Sir Huon has 17S pounds, Shaun Spadah and Duettiste, 175. and Square Tp. 145.
