New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Pimlico Meeting
To Set Record
ForRacePriizes
With No Competition iz
November Maryland Club
Offers Huge Sum

BALTIMORE. Aug. l7.-Aceordine +.
the programme just announced by tn,
Maryland Jockey Club for the comins
November race meeting at picturesou
old Pimlico track, $685. 900 will be dis.
trlouted among the horsemen who's.
thoroughbreds compete for the stake
and purse events offered. This will be
daily average of nearly $4,000 TO,
eleven days. No more liberal pro.
gramme has been advertised bv an
American racetrack in the last twenty
years.
The total amount to be distributed
IN stakes will be $4,000: the grass
sum to be hung up in overnight purses
sfZ'ooo. No overnight race will havs
smaller value in added money than
81 900.
The most valuable of the pim,;co
nxtures to be renewed will he tbs
Bowie Cup, $4,000 added one mile and
half the Manly Memorial steeple-
chase' $4,000 added, two miles md a
half; Walden Satkes (for two-year-
oids)' $4,000 added, one mile; Pimlico
Autumn Handicap. IS 900 added one
| mile and a quarter, and Elkridpe Stes.
PrI,echase, $4,000 added, two miles
c;deS Iese specials which are to be de-
tlued In November, will ciose on Sen
sMemoer 25. along with the Pimlics
nursery Stakes. $1,000 added, a two
ieat-olo race of four and n half fnr
'0ngs that Will be run next spring.
.h me hikridge is a steeplechase for
s,I m.IIe-year-olds, and ii viii be the onlv
80 80 race or high value decided any-
cans 30 ~, Inc East In the autumn. Be-
sause OF the participation in the preot
war OF so many members of the p;ni,cs
to t.o.A association, there will be no ana.
'euf meeting at Locust Valley tb;s
year, and consequently no renewal ~
the h $4,000 Harbor Hill Steeplechase for
snlee7 year. ds. However, it is safe
SfanDle 'hat there will be spry young
r rencers enough TO make the Elkridge
renewal highly interesting. There are
upward of 100 three -year1olds of goaJ
breeding and fair class schooling for
sleeplechaslng in various parts Of the
eounlry, and the best Of these will ba
pointed for the Elkridge.
Feature Steeplechases
c,i AS IN the past, the Maryland Jockey
Club viii pay particular attention ~
S'eeplechaslng this coming fan II
,oeihg It's aim to provide at least one
ojo..os Jloss. country event each day. The
ttheSerest tha fencers developed through
tne season of 1917 took part in pIn,N
Ico's steeplechasing last fall and Tho
manly Memorial. which was won hv
sano ssap.aln Joseph &. Davis's Texas bred
,ehcer brooks, was easily the hest
cross-country event of the wear.
has. november. when the Bowie Gun
49, ~. - LOT the hrst time as a $4,000
sveHt, II brought to the post feld Of
.i'a". onad Instance runners and devel-
khayyam and Westy HOGAN both r,,ra
n1ng under the silks of Wilfrid Viau' OF
montreal, In which Westy Hogan. tho
supposed sprinter, came off victor over
omar hhayyam, the proven distance
runner; But to beat his valiant stable
mate Westy had to gallop one mile and
nan IN 20! 4-5. the fastest time ever
hung out in Maryland.
Pimlico will have no comnet;t;o,
anywhere in November, and the curtaii-
ment OF racing In Kentucky will sena
10 the Maryland Jockey Club track the
shai'est western runners of all apea
ioT trials OF speed and endurance with
the seasoned cracks of the strongest
Eastern stables. The Eastern stables
ms year are uniformly strong in
horses OF all ages and classes, and
especially so In -year-olds. And tn.
unusually large number of good two
year,olds insures brilliant renewal os
me walden, which will be this year, as
IL has been in the past. the create -
distance event Of the season for voung
thoroughbreds '"A
War Cloud. which was destined T.,
WIN Tor A. King Macomber one Of the
divisions of the Preakness last spring
ana then to go to New York and defeat
JACK Hare, Jr, and Johren in the Dwyer
at Aqueduct, won last November's re-
newal ne! OF the Walden from Tipp;ty
"lechet' Inc Porter and Jack Hare, Jr.