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The young businessman, a former steeplechase rider and trainer, put the Hardaway Construction Co. bulldozers to work at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga., and cleared a course. Among the premier azalea and camellia garden attractions of the South, Callaway Gardens will bring steeplechasing to the Columbus area for the first time Nov. 3. In an attempt to offer a premium stakes for horses preparing for the Colonial Cup two weeks later, Lampton has come up with $50,000 to attach to his feature race, a 2'/>-mile handicap.
Other races include an unsanctioned mile turf test for Georgia owners, a $10,000 allowance ’chase, a $10,000 maiden ’chase and an additional allowance contest that carries a purse of $15,000.
With all the sophisticated race courses in operation today, the Pennsylvania Hunt cup races Nov. 9 remain one of the tj*ue hunt meetings in that sense of the word. Set on the adjoining properties of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Weymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ledyard and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur O. Choate Jr., the rolling terrain is smack in the middle of the Cheshire Hunt Country — a fact that has caused more than one horse to turn toward his home bam halfway through the four-mile timber contest.
The final meet of the season is on Nov. 17 at the Springdale Course in Camden, S. C.
Since 1970, when the late Raymond G. Woolfe and Marion duPont Scott'conceived the internationally known Colonial Cup, this race has been the highlight of the racing season and the finale.
Carrying a purse of $100,000 in the early years, it still remains the richest steeplechase in this country at $60,000, with $36,000 going to the winner of the 2-V.i-mile ’chase over the championship fences. There are 17 fences in all, and not one is jumped
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