The Washington herald., 1917-11-19
BUGLE SOUNDS TODAY
FOR RACING AT bowie
Southern Maryland Agriculture As
soeiation VIII Hold Final Meet
in East This Season.

with the racing Of the Southern
Maryland Agricultural Association
scheduled to begin today at Bowie.
where the sport viii hold forth for
eleven days. considerable interest Is
manifest in relation to the meeting
which will ring down the curtain
on the sport which attractsNon the
whole horses belonging to Eastern
owners. The. majority OF those
stables which have been racing at
the other Maryland tracks are al
ready quartered at Prince Georges
Park. and as these will be aug
mented by others which have been
holding on until the Bowie meet
ing. the chances are that some cap
ital sport will be witnessed.
The stables of James Arthur. Rob-
ert J. Waken, Smith & Farrar, o.
@. Rasch, George C. Winfrey. Sam
uel Ross and William P. Burch. are
the latest arrivals. at Bowie, and
it is announced that they have all
been freshened up for the Bowie
campaign with the prospects that
they will cut considerable figure In
the division of the prize money.
The youngsters in the stable of
Burch. which belong to Samuel Ross,
Of this city, are the smartest lot
Of two-year-olds, perhaps. that will
appear at Bowie. Ross has been dis
appointed in the Grey Leg two-year-
olds he imported a couple of sea-
sons back. and which showed prom
Use in their work at Benning last
spring. Not one of them has turn
ed out well. They have been too
busy bucking their shins, and prob
ably will not strike their gait until
next season.
Burch. however. has developed some
others. Two of these-The Porter, a
son Of Sweep. and Ballymooney. a
daughter OF Qelt-are American bred.
The third-Colonel Cluff, a son Of Gal
loping Simon-and Auntie-is English
Colonel Cluff very probably Is the stal
of the trio. He was imported from
Great Britain by Grant Hugh Browne
and Bernard Baruch bought him al
the wedding out sale of the Browne
yearlings in New York last winter, at
which he brought $4,000. Jack McGin-
mis-, who once raced Frank Gill and
Sam jackson. developed Colonel Cluff.
and Baruch sold him privately to Ross
six or seven weeks back.
The consideration Is said to have
been 5000. Colonel Clufr is a chestnut
of splendid proportions and much
speed He was one Of the starters
from the Ross stable in the Walden
at Pimlico, and he might have beaten
his stable companion, The Porter, II
he had had first rate racing luck. He
should prove formidable at Bowie.
The Porter, q winner at Pimlico, Is
a smartIy set up youngster of excep-
tional muscular development, and he,
too, can run fast under weight. Bally-
mooney beats both Colonel Cluff and
The Porter in work, but she has not
discovered as much class as they have
shown under colors.
Ultimatum and Alvord, both win
ners at Bowie last autumn, are the
cIeverest horses Of mature years in
the Burch menage. Crank, which did
better than either on the New York
tracks through the summer. has been
laid up with a bad leg for several
weeks and probably will not show
under colors again this year. Ulti-
matum races for Ross and Alvord for
Burch.
Among the most recent Of the visit
ors to the Capitol Is Thomas w. Ames,
of Ishawooa, Wyo., which Is located
in the heart OF the Big Horn Basin,
and who is in the East for the pur-
pose of securing a number Of thor
oughbred and Morgan sires for use on
his own and neighboring ranches for
the production of army horses,