New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
Race Meet at
Bowie Starts
Next Monday
Outlook for a Prosperous
Season on Local Tracks
Unusually Bright
BY FRANK O'NElLL


Uorscmen are beginning the mobiii-
zation Of their forces for an advance
on the Northern courses. The racing
season will not open in New York I'M
iii May Is, when the course at Jamaica
will be thrown open to the thorough
breds. but owners and trainers are
preparing for the advance from the
territory below the Mason and Dixon
line. Local enthusiasts will get
taste Of racing in a two days hunt
meet at Hewlett's Park, Long Island
but this will serve merely as the cock
tail that precedes the feast. Bowie
Uavre de Grace, Pimlico, Lexington
and Louisville will play host to the
horsemen before New York has the OPP
portunity to extend its hospitalities.
The meeting now in progress at Hot
Strings. Ark, on the Oaklawn course
will terminate shortly, 10 move to inc
Essex course in the same city, where
racing will continue until April H. by
that time, however, many Of the best
horses, along with many OF the seiee'
from, Tia Juana, Havana and New Or
leans, will move to the Eastern tracks
Nine days racing will be offered at ia
maiea, beginning on May Is, and then IN
order will follow Belmont Park for sew
enteen DAYS, from May 20 TO juno 10;
Jamaica for siy days from June 10 10
Or Aoueduet, Empire City, Saratoga
and a return TO Belmont farh, "heIo
taps will be sounded over racing on
local courses for the year Thirteen
days will be devoted to this tnal meet
ing. from September 1 to 10.
Bowie Meeting Next Week
Bowie will throw open its gates on
A,y;l and will be the scene OF &C
ton until April IA. Unless preSeni,
indications carry far astray, there VIII
he seven hundred or more thorough
breds in the stalls from which 10 draw
for the seven daily races. Two nun
dred new stalls have been erected 10
Ienlace those destroyed in the fire last
Navsmbsr in which horses valued at
moro than $4,000 lost their Hyes.
August Belmont, chairman OF Inc
Jockey Club; r. ]. Wilson, president
of the Saratoga Association; marry
Payne Whitney, ". r. Coe, Glnoru
A Cochran, A. X. Macomber and many
other prominent owners Will race at
Bowie. -, :,
Every indication points to boom III
steplechase racing this season: frlSeS
800 attractive than ever before Will
he offered to the timber toppers. Inc
Manley Memorial, named after the iate
nresident of the Maryland Jockey Cluo'
was instituted at Pimlieo last season: /
The race was run at two and one-hal1
miles IL will be renewed again TINS
sesson- possibly at three miles, ana
will he a real test Of ability. ms
race is the richest of the 'eross-couh-
inv events and carries an added money
value of $4,000. c....1o
The Green Spring Valley Steeple-
chase. TO be run over two mlle COURSE
AT, Pimlico this spring, is another race
that will command the interest OF en-
fhusissts. A dozen or more owners
have nominated horses. and the en-
tries include many of the best cross
country runners in the South. LWeh'y-
I'VE hundred dollars Will be added 70
the subscriptions and forieits OF 'he
nominators. In addition 10 these races
which stand out on the card OF tne
wear. there will be the usual races over
The sticks in the spring and 1ali meet
ings, lasting thirty days IN ALI
Piping Rock Attracts Attention
Not alone in the Southland is the
srort hooming. Piping Rock Will be
tie scene of the Whitney Memorial
and the Harbor Hill stakes, and IN
addition 10 these two new races VIII
he run. both Offering rich prizes: Inc
pinino Rock. a sweepstake OF SOU eaeh,
and the Oakridge viii attract much at
fention. The Piping Rock Sweepstakes
Gependine upon the NUMBER OF SUP
scrintions accounted for at the time OF
cIosinO NAV have a value OF S4,OOO.
tho 0akridge, named for Thomas +:
Rvan's stock farm IN Virginia, VIII
carry an added prize OF Sl,ZoO. i ne
whitney Memorial is for tour-year-
ODDS and upward, and will De over
course Of two miles and one-half. ne
Usrhor Hill is for -year-o!ds,
over two-mile course. These races
were formerly run at Belmont Park.
They carry an added value of $4,000
donated By Harry Payne Whitney and
c. N. Mackay, respectively.
The United Hunts. keenly alive TO
the spirit of the times, Is out with
more attractive offers than ever be-
fore for its races at Belmont Terminal,
Just across the way from Belmon.
PARK. The course at Belmont Termi-
nal is recognized as one of the stihest
on this side Of the Atlantic and IS
n thorough test in every essential for
steepleehasers. Under the terms or
contract for the major subscription
race at the Terminal. subscribers must
post 81 900 each, which entities them
TO nominate two starters fifteen days
before the running of the race. 1t IS
not necessary that the subscriber own
the horse he enters. lie may acquire
the rights by lease.
Patrons Of Belmont Park will not lack
for the thrills attendant upon steeple-
chasing The Grand National will be re-
newed this spring. while the Brook Cup
and other special races will be run. The
Saratoga. Shillalah, Beverwyck and
Hitchcock steeplechases will be run