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IRISH GRAND NATIONAL HOPE Zenon, Mildly Weighted in Race, Is a Speedy Well-Bred Jumper. The Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase is an Irish mark. When on shipboard for England last summer the writer ran into an Irishman well grounded in the favorite sport of his country, and the talk drifted to steeplechasing and its figures. Duettiste was discussed and a wager made that Zenon, an Irish jumper, would beat him in the Grand National Steeplechase of 1922 if both started in the race. Zenon and Duettiste are both in and both doing well on the other side, where Zenon has also won. He is a seven-year-old bay gelding, a pure thoroughbred, reared in Ireland and handicapped with 150 pounds, sixteen less than Duettiste. Zenon is by Zria. the sire of many great jumpers, including Troytown. and his dam. Princess Pam, an Irish mare of excellence by Pam. Zenon ran in six Irish jumping races last year and smartly wou the last four of them. He is owned by a Kildare man, C. OC. OReilly, and in the hands of one of the cleverest of Irish cross-country horse trainers, Reggy Walker. If Duettiste. fit and well, is beaten in the Grand National it will be by such a horse as Zenon or the shifty Australian gelding Mabu, which is also in keen hands and in the National 140-pound band.
