Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-21
FAMOUS STABLES WAIT
GONG At BOWIE TRACK
Horses of All Ages and Abilities
Ready for Opening OF East
ern Season.
WILL START ON APRIL
Maryland Club Gets Dates Formerly
Assigned to jamestown Track.
VirRinia-Bred Horses Expected to
Make Good Showing.

BALTIMORE. MD. March 90
iiorses Of oil ages and OF various abili-
lies representing half Il dozen owners
constitute the stable Of James FitZ-
of the most of of Siw
r!d race trucks, for the first spring
Meeting OF the Southern Maryland Agri-
cultural Association at Prince Georges
ark near Bowie. The Southern Mary
land Agricultural Association track is
n.tuated midway between Baltimore
aud Washington, and it's coming meet
!nG Will inaugurate the Eastern racing
season. the Jockey Club of New York
LAYING taken Bowie into the Eastern
iold last winter and assigned TO the
new track the dates which formerly
we're the property OF the jamestown
The horses James Fi,xsimmons will
race at Bowie April /. aie twenty
II number, and they u:c well advanced
IN their training. FiiZsi fnnonS has
taken fun advantage Of the first ~ace
weather for conditioning horses New
iork has known since the LIST OF Feb
luhry. and besides having Il ~ lot Of
factrs for the opening meeting. the
veteran New York trainer viii have
Two excellent jockeys in the veteran
H!ccahey and the apprentice McNecvcr.
McCah.%. who has been with Fitzsim-
mons for Ecars. is under contract this
,a'n"r being $500. MCkccvcr has
long way 10 go before h. becomes as
Use ~ Bowie last fall, and has worked
i'nH*tif into. condition galloping horses
this winter.
Thirteen on fourteen horses OF the
quincy stables. which sent Trojan out
u, win the Futurity last August at
Saratosa are in F'i,zs!mmons's stable.
butt Trojan and Double I;a slc are not
among them. They belong 10 Il di-
vtsion OF the stable that will race in
,h sn' ,na and CANADA This year under
and beside LAWYERS bunch there arr.
,woo, other divisions OF the Quincy
stable. one OF which win be trained by
Edward 'helan. and the other by little
Nike DAILY. Both or these will race
at Bowie
Virginia Bred Horses Entered.
lieadmast. like Trojan. n produce OF
Henry T. oxnard's Blue Ridge stud. IN
kno@n OF n. oiM,tncy" Il horses Fl F'itzs G
mons Is training for the Bowie meet
!ns He won AL the distances two
season, ard I'itzs!mnons Is confident
that he will hold his own in better than
selling platter company over distance
nroadencd and thickened over winter
INTO one Of the most preposscssing Look
sade He y big horse on short legs.
With reach and scope. and he viii
surely manage weight cieveriy. Pest
0: all. he is perfectly sound. and he is
WIlfred. his sire. IIcadmast VIII bear
the. silks OF the Quincy stable. In the
next seven or eight weeks, and then
return 20 New York and tackle the
Wooden Shoes. another veteran OF
the Quincy string and the runncr-up
at Syracuse In the race In which Rich
ard T, Wilson's old campaigner, Amaln:
l:3e l.5 for mile. has wintered
famously. and is one of the most for
inches Of snow that covered Grave
send track for week or ten days
sep to shdes MRos legs sa
bhd. He Will be ready 10 run as soon
as he gets In Maryland and should o,,
and farther. FitZsimmons thinks well
also OF Last Condus n:e-year old. and
hait brother Andrew Ga son OF Dus-
season. Andrew was laid up through
the summer and fall with bad ankle.
Just now Andrew will not. perhaps,
20 farther than seven furlongs. but
ne has quick turn Of speed. and il
himself with clever sprintcrs. Besides
these. veterans there are couple OF
promising three year-old maidens In
den and Faith Cathrine. and Ficeroy.
son OF Golden Maxim and Lady Min
with which Fitzsimmons and his Quincy
stable boss expect to win purse or
two.
Two-Yenr-OIds Strong.
The twoycar- olds OF the stable arc
mainly star Shoots. oedcns, Migration
and Waterboys. recruited from the
breeding estabitshmgnt of John T..
MdlueI, 1T l'ltce one OF the
OYdens is n full brother OF The Mas
qGcrader the juvcnials sensation of tho
carly Maryland meetings OF last spring.
This fellow Will be known 10 students
~ the dope as Costumer. and he is n
ringer in conformation and marking of
the MasQuerad:r. The variest tyro
would pick him as near relative OF
the MasHueradcr. which is preparing at
BeuninE track for the Bowie stable.
Costumer showed a bit Of speed last
fall. and Is forward youngster this
spring. Two other OGdenS of promise
are Tattletalc and Wayfarer. the
former son OF Love Note and the latter
ihs son OF Miss Angle. They have done
as well as the Youngsters Mt GraveScn nd.
gator. son of Star shoot and Ethel
Lee. This fellow is of the family of
Meridian, his dam being a grand dam OF
Richard Carmens. famous Broomstick
which won the Kentucky Derby in 1911
He Is as Quick as 81 cat, and his trainer
believes ne VIII come to hand early.