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Saturday, yd April, 191 8 

 The Huntingdon Valley Hunt made a brave effort to-day 

 to have a spring meeting, and under most adverse condi- 

 tions; owing to the war, and the softest going imaginable, 

 had only three horses at the post in the two principal 

 events. 



Captain W. Plunket Stewart's brown gelding, "Mar- 

 cellinus," by "D'Arenburg," beautifully ridden by Eddie 

 Cheston, won the Huntingdon Valley Plate in a sea of mud, 

 from " Riverbreeze " and "Gigantoi," and in the Meadow- 

 brook Plate the going was so deep that the stewards de- 

 cided to shorten the race from three miles to one and 

 a half. Huntingdon Valley Farms' "Whirlwind," with 

 C. Darlington up, won from Welsh Strawbridge's "Lake- 

 wood." Nelson Buckley's "Blue Mischief," with Eddie 

 Cheston riding, pulled up and did not finish. 



"MARYLAND HUNT CUP" 



2~th April, 1918 

 A LITTLE sporting tour away from home is always most 

 enjoyable, and especially so when the horse one is backing 

 wins; and the consensus of opinion was that there was 

 never a more popular win of the Maryland Hunt Cup than 

 to-day, when Captain W. Plunket Stewart's "Marcell- 

 inus," with Eddie Cheston up, galloped home in front of a 

 field of nine. It is an interesting coincidence that during 

 the Spanish War, just twenty years ago, and when Plun- 

 ket Stewart was also in uniform, his horse "The Squire" 

 won this same classic. 



Although the field to-day was not as large as in the pip- 

 ing times of peace, it quite made up in quality what it 

 lacked in quantity. Mr. Heiser gave his delightful an- 



