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Adjacent Hunts Meeting Cards Co-Features Today One-Day Pari-Mutuel Session For Benefit of Runyon Fund PTJRCHASE, N. Y., May 28.— The most successful eastern spring hunt racing in two decades will come to a close here Saturday with the 16th annual meeting of the Adjacent Hunts Racing Association. Currently operated for the benefit of the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, the one-day meeting with pari-mutuel wagering will offer seven diversified events. With stake performers from major courses, the program has the, Adjacent Hunts Cup and the 16th running of the Connecticut Cup serving as co-features. The latter event, a three-mile test over stiff timber fences, has six accepting the issue. Favored to gain a leg on the coveted silver hunting horn trophy is Mrs. C. Paul Dencklas Neds Flying. To be ridden by A. P. "Paddy" Smith-wick, one of the nations better chase riders, the seven-year-old gelding accounted for the 24th running of the Radnor Hunt Cup, and last Saturday won the Gloucester Fox Hunters Cup at Media, Pa. "Contention will come from his stable-mate, Starboard, owned by Thomas S. Nichols, Glyndon, Md. Second in the Virginia Gold Cup at Warrenton, Va., Starboard captured the Western Run Plate at Butler, Md. Both chasers are trained by D. M. "Mike" Smithwick, -a brother of Paddy. Mike is slated to have the mount on Starboard. Other entries are Gerald Weiss Gold Tar, Mrs. M. Troy Jones Wygant, Mrs. Simon T. Pattersons McGinty Moore and Mrs. M. G. Walshs Erins Cottage. The latter owner, wife of last years leading steeplechase trainer, captured the "1951 running of the Connecticut Cup with Gift of Gold. Only" four of the original 11 nominees were entered overnight-, for the Adjacent Hunts Cup, a two-mile hurdle handicaJIB Remaining in the small line-up are Hy-B variia, topweighted with 153 pounds; The Creek, Corinthian and Curly Joe. 1
