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By CLIVE CARNIE
Double Sparkle and Prince Saran, the 1984 Timber Horses of the Year, are slated to meet for the first time in the $9,000 Middleburg Hunt Cup, feature race at the Middleburg spring steeplechase meet Sunday.
Both these horses won four sanctioned timber races last year. Prince Saran, owned by John R. Neal of Columbia, Tenn., recently won a timber race at the Oxmoor meet in Louisville, Ky. Double Sparkle, owned by Thomas L. Ashbridge III, has not started over timber this year.
A field of 15 has been entered for the 3Vi-mile timber race, seventh on the eight-race card which begins at 1 p.m. at Glenwood Park.
Richmond publisher William T. Reed Ill’s Crocodile Fears is also entered in the race. This 10-year-old gelding won two sanctioned timber races in 1984 and last started in the My Lady’s Manor Point-to-Point at Monkton, Md., last weekend.
Also entered in the Middleburg Bowl is Vincenzo Zuco’s Fiddler’s Dam which won a sanctioned timber race at Middleburg last fall and has been racing in the owner-rider series on the Virginia point-to-point circuit.
Philip R. Benson’s Arch Revolt, which also won at Middleburg last fall, and Paul B. Cramer Jr.’s Cookin ’N Lookin, leading horse in the Seven Corners owner-rider series, are also entered.
Glenwood Park’s turf has a strong appeal to horsemen which is usually echoed by the large number of entries that each race meet at the course receives. Bill Gallo, racing secretary for the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association (NSHA), sanctioning body for steeplechasing in this country, said that 111 horses had been entered for Sunday’s meet.
Forty-five horses have been entered in the first race alone, necessitating a split. This race will be a l^-mile maiden hurdle contest.
Among the runners in the first division is Charlie Fleischmann’s Lumba Wallah, last year’s First Colony ownerrider hurdles series winner and a winner this year at Rappahannock. D. M. Smithwick’B Fabuleux Chance, Paul B. Cramer Jr.’s Shempora and Ragtime Knight and John D. Archbold’s Savacou are other horses from the point-topoint circuit entered.
The day’s third race will be a maiden timber contest over 3 miles, which has drawn 17 entries. Among
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