The Washington herald., 1917-10-30
PIMLICO IS READY
FOR AUTUMN Meeting
Brilliant Number of Purses Hung Up
for Eleven Days Racing at
Hilltop Course.

Baltimore, Nd, Oct. ga fiat
race for a purse OF $4,000. a steeple-
chase of $1,000, and a raft of small
$500 to $4,000 in added money.
make up the stake program the
Maryland Jockey Club has arranged
for the eleven-day meeting that will
begin at Pimlico track on Thursday
to continue through the 18th of No
vember.
Supplementary to this stake pro-
gram, which has served to keep the
smartest thoroughbreds of the sew
eral racing ages in training some
what beyond the time it is the Gus
tom of their owners to put them
away for the winter, the Maryland
Jockey Club offers a program of
overnight races of values ranging
from $500 to $1,000 that will at
tract the best overnight handicap
animals and selling platers and
serve to balance its cards from day
to day.
Ninety-three thousand dollars is
the total sum that will be distribut-
ed among horsemen in the course
of the meeting. a daily average OF
more than $S,400.
By far the most liberal program
ever put out by a Maryland track
this Pim1ico card suggests the most
liberal offerings of the Coney Island
Jockey Club in the old flush days
of racing at Sheepshead Bay. That
the best meeting Pimlico will ever
have known is in prospect has been
conceded by horsemen and patrons
of racing the country over since the
promulgation Of the Maryland
Jockey Clubs program back in July.
The racing at Pimlico through the
first fortnight of November will be
racing of the good. old-fashioned
sort in which the stout hearted dis
tance runner will have the call over
the sprinter and the matured cam
paigner will be given the preference
over the 2-year-old.
Races at distances ranging from one
mile to one mile and a half on the
fat, and from two miles to two miles
and a half through the field will
abound. There will be but one sprint
each day for horses three years old
and over at a shorter distance than
one mile and the 2-year-olds will have
to take up their weight and go a
route. The juvenile feature of the
meeting, the 5000 Walden, is a dash
of one mile. OF stseplechases there
will be twelve, two on election day,
and one every other day.
In the Pimlico Autumn Handicap, a
gallop OF one mile and a quarter for
G-year-olds, and in the Bowie Cup, a
gallop of one mile and n half for
5-year old and over, the rival 3-year-
olds of the season, Omar Khayyam
nd TnrrrIaS5 in
Wilfrid Viau and his trainer, Richard
F. Carman, have by no means accept
ed the result of the race for the s1o,-
coo John f. Mclean Cup at Laurel
Park, in which Hourless, out the last
ounce, defeated Omar Khayyam a
scant length in 2:O2 fiat, the fastest
time ever made over a mile track, or
any other, perhaps, for one mile and
a quarter in this country as decisive
of the 3-year-old championship OF the
season.
They point out that their great Eng
lish colt, which won the Kentucky
derby, the Kenner and Travers stakes,
the Lawrence Realization and the
Saratoga Cup before he came to
Maryland. has beaten Hourless twice
this season-in the Brooklyn derby
and the Lawrence Realization-and
they maintain that he is capable of
doing it again. He has trained splen-
didly since his defeat at Laurel Park
and Mr.. Viau and Mr.. Carman want
nothing so much as to meet Hourless
in both the Pimlicon Autumn Handi-
cap and the Bowie Cup.
The Manley Memorial. a gallop of
two miles and a half through the
field, is the Maryland Jockey Clubs
$1,000 steeplechase. 1t will be run
on as the election day feature and it
will attract, among other crack fenc-
ers, st. Charlotte, Expectation, Mai
tire Corbeau, Charles Francis. Fair
Mac, Brooks, Martian, Sharpshooter.
Sun King, Robert Oliver, Curraghal-
len, Belle of Bryn Mawr, Cherry Ma
! lotte, Sysosset, Fountain Fay and
/ Skibbereen.
The 5000 chase is the Elkride. Pim-
lico's new trial for jumpers of the
3-year-old brigade, and among its po-
tential starters are Altar Fire, Gold
Bond and kite I'd. The Elkridge
will be run on next Saturday at two
miles.
The smartest of the eligibks for
the Walden are Jack Hare, jr., Dras-
tic, Jyntee, Masda, Tippity Witchet,
Top Coat, Matinee Idol. Bughouse,
Ultima Thule, High Cost, Kashmir.
Cum Sab. Olivewood. Plum, Japhet,
Kewpie O'Neil, Wyoming, War Cloud.
Decisive, Ballymooney, Valerius, En-
| filade, Rosie O'Grady, Lenius, Trompe
la Morte, Traverse and Happy Go
Lucky.
The minor stakes are the ArIing-
ton and Monumental handicap at
one mile and a sixteenth and one
mile and three-sixteenths. respect
lively. the serial handicaps. Nos. 1.
and 8, at six furlongs, one mile
and one mile and furlong. respect
lively, and the Pimlico autumn SELL
ing race, a gallop of one mile and
quarter. For these races such
horses as Hwfa, Fernrock, st. Isl
dore, Ed Roche. Ed Cudihee, Spur.
Capra, Paddy Whack, Blackboard.
Whimsy, Dorcas. Piginny, Fairy
Wand. Queen of the Water, Jock
Scot, Triple Crown, Jack Mount
Manister Toi, Sam Jackson, Daddys
Choice. Viewpoint. Fenmouse. Night
stick, Torchbearer. Benevoent, Bella
Desmond, Julialeon, Bayberry Can
die, Liberty Loan, Stargazer, wal
nut Hall. Sunbonnet, Manager Waite,
Ticket, Flittergold, Lucius, Traction,
Leochares, Waukeag, Hubbub. Barry
shannon. Uncle Bryn, Priscilla Null
Inns, Naturalist, Kildee, Crank.
straightforward, Wiseman, Koh-i-
moor, Prince Henry. Piraeus, Westy
Hogan, Tea Caddy, Meteorite. Gex.
Cahilles, Venita, Chiclet, Pickwick,
Hendrie, Corntassel, Bondage, Yer