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and was known and loved by thousands of racing fans in Maryland, Delaware and New York as the “King of Chasers.” He was a smallish horse, only 15.3 hands high, but in his remarkable 10-year career he accounted for nearly every important steeplechase in the northeast. He fell but once, at Laurel in 1945 when some brush lodged under his girth and brought him down. He was honored by his peers in 1966 alongside Neji.
The legendary Mrs. Scott was responsible for another ’chaser in the Hall of Fame with Neji. A chestnut foal of 1950, Neji was bred by Mrs. Scott from Hunter’s Moon IVAccra by Annapolis. Prior to Zaccio, Neji remained at the top of steeplechase money earners for a dozen years, amassing a world record at the time of $271,956 for his owner, Mrs. Ogden Phipps.
Trained by Mikey Smithwick, Neji was without peer in packing weight. Twice he carried 173 pounds to victory — in the 1958 Grand National and the 1957 Temple Gwathmey. In the 1958 renewal of the Gwathmey he carried a stunning 176 pounds only to be beaten by a head at the wire by Benguala, who carried 147 pounds.
Racing through the depression years of the mid-1930s, Bushranger, another Hall of Famer, won only $20,635 in 16 starts over fences. He was a stakes winner at five and six and in his final season he won the Brook under 165 pounds and the Grand National under 172 pounds. He fractured a leg in a schooling accident later that year and had to be put down. Owned and bred by Joseph E. Widener, Bushranger was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1967.
Owned by Raymond R. Guest of nearby Powhattan, L’Escargot entered the Hall of Fame in 1977. An Irish-bred foal of 1963, he raced only three times in the United States, winning the 1969 version of the
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