The Washington herald., 1918-04-14
SMART HORSES
AWAIT MEETING
Havre de Grace Track Fill
ing Up with Best Horses
in the East.

Havre de Grace, Nd. April IL
The smartest three-year-oIds ship
ping from Bowie TO Havre de Grace
today to take part in the thirteen
day April session OF the Hartford
Agricultural and Breeders' Associa-
tion which will begin Tuesday are
in the stable of Edward Mcbride.
They are McBrIde's own colt Charlie
Leydecker and c. E Clements
Mary Maud. the former q son of
Jack Atkin. the latter a daughter
Of Irish Lad. The smartest two
year-olds are the half a dozen
youngsters OF the stable Of Thomas
Clyde, Of which Mahony. Dunedin.
Weston. wekoa and Reynolds seem
to be the stars: Sid C. Keener,
OF the stable OF J. o. Talbot, and
Fannie Mehan. OF the stable Of John
Thornby.
Charlie Leydecker. a stake win
ner in Maryland last spring. looks
like a first rate three-year-oId pros
pect up to seven furlongs and there
Is no reason. perhaps. for assum-
ing that he will not go farther.
A G. Weston declared when he
came this way from New Orleans
with the Clyde youngsters that he
had as smart a lot as he had ever
trained and Weston, Mahony. We
woka and Dunedin made good for
him at Bowie. All of these save
Weston won and Weston raced
through the mud last Friday IN
such fashion as to create the i'm
preston that he would earn brack-
cts some time in the course of the
first week of the Havre de Grace
meeting. Mahony looks to be the
smartest OF the trio of winners,
but the work watchers unite in de-
claring the untried Reynolds to be
a better youngster than the son of
Beach Sand.
Sid c. Keener and Fannie Mehan.
both of them cheap yearlings. are
two-year-olds OF better than aver
age quality. Two OF the youngsters
of the Brighton stable George NJ.
Odom shipped down to Bowie from
Gravesend to be handled by WILL
lam Shields-John Powers and
Tiger Rose-seem to be fair per-
formers. but John Powers must
learn better barrier manners. He
has a way OF propping at the start
ing gate that discourages specula-
ton on him.
Many precocious 2-year-olds. youngs-
tiers OF the stables Of John Lumsden.
J. S. Tyree. Samuel Ross, OF WASH
ington. William p. Burch, Richard r.
Carman and wilfrid Viau, which were
PREVENTED from starting at Bowie by
the five days storm of last week
which upset training. train service
and everything else in Maryland. will
arrive from Benning track tomorrow.
Mr.. Carman won a race with the >
year-oId Aun:ie, a daughter OF Uncle
and a miss of high speed. None Of
the other horsemen mentioned sent
anything to the Southern Maryland
track. Nevertheless shed work has
kept their Juveniles in tiptop condi-
tion and most of them will be ready
TO do their best at the fiGst asking
here.
With Mary Maud and Charlie Ley
decker, Mcbride is bringing Tit for
Tat. a winner last season. Joseph p.
Murphy. and Peerless One, 3-year-oIds,
and the 2-year-oids Mrs. Kate Ley
decker, Little Maudie. Old Bill Bender,
Jack Leary and a couple OF others.
All of McBride's runners are Mt. They
we're ready before the Bowie meet
ing began.
James FItzsimmons has arrived from
Gravesend with the Quincy stable.
which is made up mostly OF 2-year-
olds, as have also James Murphy.
Otto Ransch. James Boden and Sandy
McNaughton. Gloomy Gus, a most
reliable platter Of the top class. Is
Ransch's best bet. McNaughton has
brought down the 4-year-old River
dale, with George Starr. George Clark
and Billy Murphy. S-year-olds, and a
couple of 2-year-olds. Riverdale. a
sprinter Of parts. has matured no.
ticeably and McNaughton thinks a
lot OF him. But McNaughton thinks
more of his promising young Jockey.
Hummer. than he does of all his
horses put together. Hummer rode
creditably at Bowie.
Cobalt Lass has left Bowie for Havre
de Grace already. She owes her life
TO the sagacity and persistency OF a
fcx terrier. Cobalt Lass was in the
stable that burned at Bowie Thurs
day night, and she ran back into her
box after having been led out The
fox terrier followed her in the blaz-
ing stable and bit at her heels until
she ran out again,