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GREAT JUMPING PROSPECT C. V. Whitneys Beacon Hill Rated as Best "Green Fencer" in Country. ♦ Entered in Arlingtons Features Through Field — Halcyon Looms Up as Prominent Classic Candidate. ♦ Whatever luck young Cornelius Vander-bilt Whitney may have with his flat horses of various ages at Arlington Park next month, racing has the word of Frank J. Bryan, secretary and handicapper of the Hunts Committee of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, and secretary and handicapper of the Maryland Jockey Club, for it that Mr. Whitney will have there the best "green fencer" in the country in Beacon Hill. Beacon Hill, a son of Broomstock and Yankee Maid, is a brother of Bostonian, winner, under Harry Payne Whitneys silks in 1927, of renewals of the Preakness Stakes and the Riggs Handicap, both at Pimlico. Faster by far than Bostonian ever was Beacon Hill won a Travers at three, but proved unreliable after that. In work he would display all of his original speed, but he did not appear to want to go on in competition. It was not until he was put at steeplechasing last fall that he found himself. Bryan is not the only discriminating judge of fencing form to describe him as the best green jumper of the last half a dozen years, better pc-vibly than Arc Light, which won the North Shore Steeplechase inaugural at Arlington Park last summer, looked three seasons back. His victory last Monday at Aqueduct, in a race at two miles, was his second in a row. He beat Banner Day, Crenalan, Comstockery and Spellbound easily. Beacon Hill is in the North Shore and Lake Forest Steeplechases, gallops of two miles and two miles and a half, at Arlington. Possibly, between this and July 18, Halcyon, which defeated St. Brideaux, Mr. Sponge, Surf Board, Caruso, Curate, Sandy Ford and Black Forest in the Queens County Handicap, half an hour after Beacon Hill did his clever fencing stunt, will demonstrate that he is worthy to contest with Twenty Grand, Sun Meadow, Jamestown, Mate, etc., for the 0,000 added Arlington Classic. That was Halcyons second win in two starts. He had trimmed Great Gun, Knowlton and Bathorse in a dash of seven furlongs at Belmont Park a few days before, finishing, in spite of muddy going, in 1:25%. Another son of Broomstick, Halcyon is from Prudery, sister of Macaw and Prudish, and mother of Victorian and Whiskery. He is a three parts brother of Victorian and Whiskery, for they are sons of Whisk Broom II., Broomsticks greatest son. In the Queens County Handicap Halcyon ran a mile in 1:38%, stalling off Caruso, Curate and Mr. Sponge before St. Brideaux bore down. Halcyon is one of five of C. V. Whitneys Classic eligibles, one of which is Equipoise, which may be out of it with a bad underpinning. The others are Magnifico, Fervor and Marplot. St. Brideaux, son of St. Germans sire of Twenty Grand and Panache, is Mrs. Helen Hay Whitneys supplementary nomination for the Classic. The mistress of Greentree paid 00 for the privilege of nominating St. Brideaux June 1. He appears to be improving, too. Otto W. Lehmann, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, had word yesterday that most of the main division of the C. V. Whitney stable would be out toward the end of the month. The few that will remain on Long Island to finish out the Aqueduct meeting will go from Aqueduct to Yonkers. _ — i
