The Washington herald., 1914-05-31
Scene SHIFTS
TO MARLBORO
Thoroughbreds to Hold Lime
light at Maryland Park
Thursday.
GOOD HORSES AT TRACK
Many Locally Owned Nag to Take
Part in Events at Half
mile Course.
GOOD HORSES AT TRAcl

| Baltimore has had her fill OF racing for
the time being and the horses and horse
men are gathering now at Marlboro track
for the spring session of the Southern
Maryland Fair Association. which be-
gins on Wednesday to run ten days. rain
or shine. The indications are that the
Marlboro meeting will be very successful
The Southern Maryland track lies Just
outside Of Washington and will draw its
support from the Capital City Of the
country. which has had no racing since
last fall
The new meeting, backed by some Of
the most prominent sportsmen Of South
ern Maryland, notably. DR.. Richard 8.
Hill. w. Booth Bowie, Horace Croker,
William H. Shuler, William p. Magruder.
William F. Holmead. A. T. Robinson,
William @. Brooke. George s. Dove. F..
Snowden Hill, Robert L. Hall, w. s.
Chichester, Dr. C. A. Fox. and Richard
J. Swami. will be conducted under the
aegis Of the Jockey Club Of New York,
the controlling body in American racing,
and supported by representative horse
men, -.
Joseph z. Davis, master Of hounds Of
the famous Meadowbrook Hunt of Long
Island. viii race some horses there, as
will also a brother OF Senator Watson,
of West Virginia, who bought a stable
Of ready-made racers recently at the sale
of Parker Whitney's establishment at
Pimlico.
OmciaIs Approved.
The officers of the meeting, appointed
by the Southern Maryland Fair Associa-
ton and approved by the Jockey Club.
will be William p. Spurgeon and Judge
John Howard Anderson. stewards; Carter
Hall, chief judge; George Miller. starter:
Wash Norvall. clerk Of the course and
scales, and Ernest Hall. timer and patrol
judge. These are officials experienced in
the conduct of race meetings in various
parts of the country. Mr.. Spurgeon and
Judge Anderson. prominent newspaper
men of Washington. are well known to
racing folk. and their presence in the
stand will inspire confidence.
The iiberality OF the Southern Mary
land Association has detained many
horsemen who intended to go North in
Maryland. No purse will have a smaller
value than $500 and there will be seven
or more races each day. one of them a
steeplechase.
Dr. Richard S. HILL the old president of
the Southern MARYLAND Fair Association,
has been busy these three weeks readying
the plant up for the new meeting. and
horsemen and patrons of the sport will
Big improvements have been made in the
grand stand. stables, and track buildings.
A new betting shed has been erected, and
the course has been widened at the start
ing places of the six-and half and
seven furlong races. The meeting next
fall will probably be the last over the
half-mile track. for the new men in the
association have made plans for its en-
largement. the work to begin as the au-
sesSiop Is fnishad
The Chesapeake Beach Railroad will
run three special trains daily to the race
course.
steeplechase Popular.
steeplechasing at Marlboro Will be one
of. the important features Of the coming
meeting and il will have the support
of the hunting set Of Washington and
such officers Of the army as are not
occupied in Mexico or on the Southern
frontier in their country's business, none
of whom have had any racing this
spring. Laid out on a fine natural coun-
try and intersected by a swift running
brook which has to be taken by the
leapers in the course of their journey.
the Marlboro steeplechase course is now
one of the best in the country and when
the new mile and furlong track under
contemplation is completed II will have
no equal on this side of the Atlantic.
One or two half-mile track favorites
will be missed this spring, but for the
most part the veteran runners of the
short courses. such horses as Stelcliff.
Monty Fox. Aviator. Skeets. Deduction.
and Auto Maid will be on the Job. ready
and fresh. And with such capable per-
formers over a distance OF ground as
Rolling Stone. Water Welles, El Orc.
Patton, Little England. Province, Henry
and Regards to fill the longer
races events at greater distances than
one mile will be especially attractive. Al
ready the movement Of the stables from
Electric Park and Pimlico Is under way
and by Tuesday evening there will be
upward of 80 runners safely housed in
the rebuilt and renovated stables.
Old-fashioned bookmaking will flourish
at Marlboro this spring with twenty odd
pencilers in whom the betting public
have the utmost confidence operating
under the leadership of Thomas Shaw,
the biggest layer in the country.