New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Stage Set for
Race Meetino
AtLaurel PAX
Leading Thoroughbred r.
Be Seen in Events .,
Maryland Track

LAUREL, Md, Sept. 2S.-The STA.
set at Laurel Park for the raisins =
the curtain Tuesday on wnat prom.
to be the best racing show ever oss,.s
in the vicinity of Washington.
The leading thoroughbreds Of -.
most representative racing es.abI;sL
ments Of the United States will NJ,
ticipate IN the meeting.
The Maryland State Fair Corpors.;,,
which always races through the mon,b
of October at Laurel Park, has >,
ranged an attractive programme. wo,.
than s275,00O VIII be distributed amoo.
horsemen in the course Of the twen.r
seven days of racing here. OF ths
sum $44, 900 will be contributed ia tbs
twenty-five fixtures, which closed n
August and attracted upward Of / on
nominations. Above $4,000 viii b.
added to some 187 overnight races. no,
one of which will have smaller VAIN
in added money than $1,000, and sons
forty or fifty Of which Will pay sl.2O0
and more. The balance will be made
up by the subscriptions and forfcits q
the nominators IN both stakes aud
overnight races.
Plan Two-year-old Special
On top of this Colonel Matt Vim.
general manager Of the Maryland
State Fair corporations highly pros.
porous racing enterprise here, has Of.
fered $4,000 for special race BE-
tween two-year-olds, which is de-
signed to bring that famous gelding
Billy Kelly and the brilliant Eternsl
together in weightfor age race, at
tbrec-quarters of a mile, that viii be
decisive OF the juvenile championship
of the season.
This race, which viii be for from
$4,000 to $4,000 a side, and a Rec
Cross benefit to boot, is open to all
two-year- -olds. But, inasmuch as Dun.
boync, the Futurity winner, is laid ug
with splint, and Elm Queen, tht
sensation Of the earlier meetings, is il
retirement, it is not likely that there
will be more than two starters-Eter
nal and Billy Kelly.
The owners of these brilliant young
sters, James W. McClelland, Of Ken
lucky, and Commander J. \. L. Ross
of Montreal. each is eager to have hi:
Juvenile star establish. incontestably
title to the juvenile championship oi
1918. This race Of Eternal ana blly
Kelly will be run on the day that will
be set. There is no track condtlol
clause mentioned in the terms govern
ing it. Both Eternal and Billy Kelly
: have demonstrate d that they can rur
equally well IN muddy or dry going
Other Specials in View
And there may be another match OF
so. There is talk of mile special be-
tween Sun Briar, holder of the Amer
lean mile record of 1885 Is. made II
d race, and Roamer, holder of the
! American mile record OF / "a 40. madi
against time. Willis Sharpe kilmer
the owner of Sun Briar, is keen for suci
race. Andrew Miller, the owner O.
Roamer, has not signihed his atutud'
toward such a proposition. but ne
a sportsman who in the past ha'
never been known to sidestep reason
abe proposition.
The attitude Of Colonel VIM is on
of comolacent expectancy. Coione
Winn dotes on matches. And when
ever two horsemen come TO him Wit
something that looks good he geneF
ally acconm odates them
3 But, independent of matches, u'
stakes and overnight races OF the La3'
rel Park October programme VIII orlas
/ the best thoroughbreds OF the seVefa
| classes together in series or cohteSs
that will test their mettle and win ln'
attention of the sport loving traternl'
of the East.
Cracks in Distance Races
The beet three-year-o and dis
tance runners and the near best-su'I
horses as Sunny Slope, Johren, Va
Cloud, War Machine, Motor CoP
Flags, Eyelid, Lucullite. Exterminal0f
John |. Day, The Porter, Leochsres
Westy Hogan, Omar Khayyam, Cudgsl
Hand Grenade, Roamer, Borrow star
master, Crimper. Midway, Boniface
Priscilla Mullens, Hauberk, LErran'
Highland Lad and others-will meet II
the good distance specials Ma
tional, Baltimore, Washington an
Dixie handicaps.
The Juvenile stars will come 70
gether in such races 2 the Mar!ian
and Potomac handicaps and the Cher!
Chase and Royal Blue steeplechasss
supplemented by an admirable over,
night programme for "leppers' WIZ
bring the smartest jumpers to the post
Laurel Park will feature steepis-
chasing, a form of racing that has A.
ways been popular with racing foA u
these parts Already there are upVsiu
of FIVE hundred thoroughbreds quar-
tered at the track, and more are all'-
ing every day.