New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Good Meetings
In Maryland
Are Assured
Plenty of Horses for Spring
Races Have Already
Reached State

BALTIMORE, March 16.-No matter
what difficulties as regards transporta-
tion the horsemen who have planned
to race their thoroughbreds in the East
this coming season may encounter be-
cause of war conditions, the impending
spring meetings in Maryland, which
are scheduled to begin at Bowie April
/ and continue at Havre de Grace and
Pimlico until May II, will not want
for horses!
About 600 thoroughbreds are already
at Benning and Bowie, Havre de Grace
and the Gentlemen's Driving Park and
at divers private training places scat
tered through the state, such as j. K.
l.. Ross's place, in Howard County;
Samuel D. Riddles Glen Riddle Farm,
near Berlin; Thomas Clyde's place,
near Salisbury; c. E. Clements estab-
lishment, in the Green Spring Valley,
and Robert Walden's private training
track, at Bowling Brook Farm. near
Middleburg.
Never before has the Old Line State
wintered such considerable numbers Of
runners. Never before have the farm
ers of Maryland been called upon to
furnish feed and bedding for horses
of the value of the ones that make up
these several colonies. One and half
million dollars would not buy the lot, if
the thoroughbred values of last season
are still good.
Costly Horses at Benning
Among horses at Benning, which be-
longs economically and geographically,
if not politically, to Maryland, are
Omar Khayyam and Westy Hogan, a
pair of runners $150,000 would not
buy; Brooks, the Texas-bred jumper
which won the Manley Memorial
Steeplechase at Pimlico last fall; John
Lumsden's 100000 lot of imported
Beale McLean's two dozen high priced
two-year-olds and the stout sprinter
Leockares; Wilfrid Viau's dozen prom
Using young fiers, one of which-Tank,
gigantic British colt, by Fowling
Piece-cost $4,000; Harry Payne Whit
ney's twenty second string two
year-olds, among which, very likely,
there is another Tippity Witchet and
another Leochares; Samuel Ross's
stable of twenty, Ultimatum, Crank,
The Porter and Colonel Cluf, the last
named two being prospective starters
in the coming $4,000 Preakness
Stakes; ]. S. Tyree's lot, which in
cludes King Neptune and Sweep Up H.
another formidable Preakness candi-
date, and the many jumpers and flat
runners of the strong establishment
William Garth is training for Captain
Raj Parr and A. S. Cosden, Of Balti.
more.
One of the two youngsters which as
yearlings fetched $4,000 at Saratoga
last summer is the most distinguished
hoy Of f1o ol, -
growing fast. This youngster is sor
of the young Rock Sand stallion Vul
cain, out of Rosetree I'd, and is half
brother Of Roamer. He is in the stable
of James w. McClelland, which is made
up almost exclusively of -year-olds
and which represents an investment o1
about 100000. June Bug, a three-year
old, and Royal Writ, an imported four
year-old of high promise, which was
prevented by an injury from showing
! his real class last season, are the only
old members of it.
The Driving Park colony is t1ade uE
Of the strings of c. e. Clement, the
Boston capitalist, who has become 6
Marylander and bought an estate ir
the Green Spring Valley; the Calumet
Stable, the stable of ii. r. A. West,
British army officer invalided out Of
active service after being "gassed" or
the Belgian battlefront two years ago
julie Carson and others. Mr.. Clements
mare Mary Maud, a daughter of Irish
Lad and Frizctte and half-sister ot
Crmper and Frizzle, is perhaps the
best horse at Driving Park She
showed decided liking for distance
running at Pimlco last November ane
is to be the Clement candidate for the
Preakness. With Mary Maud. which
will bear the silks of Mrs. Clement
next season, are ten smart two-year
olds bought by Mr.. Clement at the
yearling sales of last summer.