United States owners have seven entries, led by.the. American-bred Battleship, owned by Mrs. Marion Scott, Battleship was brought over here in 1936 to compete in the National, but was scratched from last year's race. At the opening of the present season in October, he won an important race at the Hurst Park track, and is already spoken of as Royal Mail's most dangerous opponent.
Mrs. Scott is to come over to see him run, after which he will return to the United States.
J. H. "Jock" Whitney seems at last io have given up hope of winning the National, which he has tried so hard to do and come so near doing. in the last 8 years. He has no entries for this years race, but the other American-owned horses are:
Mrs. Jesse Metcalf's K.D.H., Frank M.
Gould's American-bred What Have You, F. Ambrose Clark's La Touche, and his wife's Flying Minutes, Dri more Lad, owned by Paul Mellon, son of the late Andrew W. Mellon, and J. B. Snow's Delachance.—United Press.
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