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NOTABLE SPORTING EVENT Aiken Hunters Steeplechase to Feature Belmont Park Pro ¬ gram of May 23 NEW YORK N Y May 13 Nominations for the Aiken Hunters Steeplechase a gallop of two miles and a half over the brush course which will be the feature of Belmont Park racing Friday May 23 include the vet ¬ eran hunters Nicias Poplar Creek Rock of Cashel Marbro and Dragon de Vertu There are twentyfive all told the others being Miss M E Altemus San Romolo S A W Baltazzis Friend Frank F Ambrose Clarks Morning Sun and Cliverdale Victor Emanuels Mondir T W Durants Leading Light II C V B Cushmans Markham Bayard Tuck ermans and Clarence Dillons Essex Stable Nimrod C Rufus Finchs Ghent B G Guths Thomas Paine A Ludlow Kramers Flower Rock and Rockover Louis K Liggetts Soly mpn Mrs Robert V McKims Eloquence Rigan McKinneys Horicon and Golden Gorse C L Ohstroms Graeme Mrs E Bancroft Phillips Known Hero William A Phillips Saratof and the Wayside Stables Isabel IsabelLike Like the Billy Barton Steeplechase at Pim ¬ lieo which has become a popular feature of the Maryland Jockey Clubs May racing the Aiken is for gentlemen riders Bayard Tuckermans Rock of Cashel brilliantly han ¬ dled by Downey Bonsai one of Marylands most accomplished amateur horsemen won its inaugural two years back from Thomas Hitchcocks Belphegor after a spirited drive of about half a mile mileLast Last spring the Aiken was won by Mrs A G Mclllwaines Lunar under young George Saportas Coolgardie Albert Bost wick up finishing second and Eastern Noble and Skyscraper II trailing John Davis a son of the veteran amateur of other days Al Davis piloted Eastern Noble and Downey Bonsai had the mount on Skyscraper II
