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STEEPLECHASE TO EIDER i 1 English Jockey Duller Rides to ! Victory "With One Stirrup. • Jnmping Race Feature of Plmliro Program — Too Iligu Winner of iun Powder Fnrse. PIMLICO. Md., May 5.— The Green Spring Valley Seeplechase, one of the famous crosscountry races of the Maryland Jockey Clubs spring meeting, which was provided as an attraction this afternoon, resulted in an easy victory for the Dorwood Stables Rider. Hidden by G. K. Duller, one of Englands top-notch cross-country riders. Eider carried top-weight, set his own pace and beat the Erook-meade Stables Frcdden Rock by five lengths. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Madrigal II. was third, ten lengths further back, and Mrs. Cushmans Ragweed was fourth. There were nine starters and six finished the course without a mishap. Gun Boat fell at the ninth jump and Kathleen Crosby and Ke-Kon-Boy lost their riders at the seventh jump. Eider was a good horse today and lie was ridden in masterful fashion. Duller sent him out to the front in the run to the first jump and then nursed him along under slight restraint. He stalled off determined challenges, first from Kathleen Crosby and then from Ke-Kon-Boy and finally from Fredden. Rock. All this time Duller had a snug hold on Eider and permitted him to race just fast enough to keep in front and free from interference making the turn for the final run the last time around, and Frcdden Book got up and was lapped on the winner, but from there to the finish Eider drew away, increasing his lead at every stride. fixe riding exhibition. When Duller pulled up it was found that he had ridden the last part of the race with one broken stirrup leather. When this part of the equipment broke Duller never bobbied and it was only discovered after the race that he had failed to finish with all of his equipment. The broken leather, with the iron dangling from its end, dropped from the saddle a hundred yards from the finishing mark. It was a tremendous gathering that turned out at Fimlico this afternoon. The attendance was close to a record and among those who witnessed the afternoons sport from a box in the grand stand were Jack Dempsey and his wife, Estelle Taylor. Walter Salmons good looking Dunboyne colt, Dunkirk, was an easy victor of the first race. He smothered his opponents with speed, racing into a long lead the first eighth and for the remainder of the journey was well in hand. At the finish Dunkirk had a five lengths lead over the Sagamore Stables Coin Collector, which in turn beat Rockaphine by a neck. The conditions of the event called for maiden colts and geldings and there were several extra good lookers among the dozen that faced the barrier. Stylish Mack, a black colt by Hildur — The Widow Moon, was making his -irst effort and many judges pronounced him the best looking youngster on the grounds. Stylish Mack had the inside post position and acted green. When the barrier was sprung he became frightened and bolted across the track to the outside. Talaris was caught in a Jam on the back stretch, stumbled and unseated jockey Albert Johnson, but fortunately the latter escaped unharmed. ADDS TO HER PRESTIGE. Too High added another purse to her score for Samuel Ross, the Washington sportsman, when she won the Gun Powder Purse, a dash for two-year-olds, at four and a half furlongs. This was run as the fourth race, and Too High went to vhe post an odds-on favorite. Beginning rapidly, she opened up a two-lengths lead in the first eighth and raced apparently weli in hand to the head of the home stretch, where Rapid Tranrit moved up with a challenge. ODonnell. on the leader, evidently became a bit nervous, for he gave Too High a couple of lashes with the whip and the filly bounded away again. At the finish she led Rapid Transit by two lengths. Islam was third, beaten five lengths for second place. The early pace was extremely fast, the first quarter being run in £3 and the half in :46*f.. They were slowing down at the finish, the last sixteenth being run in exactly seven seconds. Alans Bay started out to make a runaway affair of the fourth lace. He sprinted into a commanding lead in the first eighth and drew away again on the back stretch. He had an easy lead until the last sixteenth, when he began to tire and Sunfire. finishing with a rush, cot up in the final strides to beat him by a n2ck. Another neck back came Spear Rock and then Hot Toddy, beaten two lengths and a half for the short end of the purse. Sunfire is a great stretch runner. He looked hopelessly out of it in the run down the back stretch, where he was far back. Schaefer refrained from hurrying him. but when he finally got settled he began closing the gap that separated him from the leaders. ♦
