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Gold Cup Entrants
Promise Great Field
With three of Virginia’? Spring •hunt race meets under their girths, the flags are down for the field of steeple chasers going into the finale in the Virginia Gold Cup Race at Warrenton May 3rd. At least six owners h*ve reason for high hopes in this Old Dominion classic on Derby Day. But the woods are fairly full of timber horses this r season, and there aren’t any experts at predicting a race over post and tail. , . ✓ Heading the list of hopefuls are a feorse named Fast, imported from/ France bv George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. of The Mains, Va ; Grand Chal. owned by Alfred H. Smith of Upper | Marlboro, Md., and Gillian, fleet footed mare from/ the Warrenton stable of Capt. J. L. B. Bentley. s 5
The hejivily' favored Grand' Chal. fresh from jwinmng the j Carolina Cup at Camden, fell at .* the first fence in the Deep, Run j Hunt Cup jat Richmond April 5th, and Fast turned In an eight-length victory. Then to show it wasn’t Just a fluke of fate. Fast had another winping performance the following i Saturday, holding a Wd over Grand Chal in the Middleburg Hunt Cup. Coincidentally, Grand Chal won the Gold Cup last year after Fast fell. Gillian also has the distinction of being a one-time Gold Cuo winner, having captured a first leg on „ the trophy fpr Capt. Bently in the . . . , ,1956- race; Three wftwire requir?:■ e3 for an owner to retire the hand
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