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= * i • 1 , • j ; , . , SANFORD JUMPER VICTOR I Mount Etna Wins Championship i Steeplechase at Liverpool — Defeats Grand National Starters. LIVERPOOL. England, March 31.— Stephen "Laddie" Sanford, whose Brights Boy yesterday failed to duplicate Sergeant Murphys success in the Grand National in 1923, won the Championship Steeplechase, at about two miles seven and a half furlongs, here today with Mount Etna. This eleven-year-old jumper was withheld from the classic yesterday. He won under T. Leader, Jr.. carrying 161 pounds, and defeated several of the starters which fell in the Grand National. Vive, carrying 161 pounds and ridden by Leslie Rees, finished second to Mount Etna, with Hackdaile, carrying 161 pounds and piloted by Pulford, taking third money. Only three finished. A. C. Schwartz Darracq, Victor Emanuels The Coyote and Harold Fowlers Scotch Eagle, all of which fell in the Grand National, also failed to finish today. The going still was heavy. The weather was good. The Bickerstaffe Plate, a one-mile gallop for three-year-olds, went to B. B. Jones International, a brown colt by Buchan — Charle-belle. He was the favorite at 2 to 1, and won by a length and a half in the field of six horses. Grand Flight, carrying 101 pounds with Dines up, won the Liverpool Cup, at one mile and a quarter, at odds of 11 to 1. There were sixteen starters and all the favorites were badly beaten.
