The Washington herald., 1919-09-30
LAUREL TRACK
READY TO OPEN
$4,000 Capital City Hand.
cap Will Be Feature
Event.

Laurel Nd. Sept. zs.-The Capital
handicap. a 5000 race at three3
quarters Of a mile. which win be ts1-,|
opening days feature al Laurs5
Park. promises to deVelop "a
wednesday one Of the most brilliant
sprinting contests of the year. Prob
aoly some Of the New York sprint
ers that have been nominated for
thls race and are eligible to start
VIII not show up. But the .defaIcn-
slon OF these New Yorkers will NOT
hurt in the least =
Ihere are enough FIRST class
sprinters in Maryland to Ill several
such races. and they are ali ready
Tor the colors. They have been cam
palgning steadily since the rniddre
OF September at Havre de Grace and
unoer conditions calculated TO de-
velop their speed. -
The sprinters already in MaryIsnd
whicn may be counted on Cor the
capital are Startling. Charles Les
oeeker' Rapid Day. Murphy. sun-
oriar. Translate. Duchess Lace
ouietude. Billy Kelly, Motor Con
War Marvel. Crank, The Porter
Leochares. Midnight sun, Dodge.
Etruscan and Bill McCloy.
A't EeFttE IN Snupe.
The Porter. which is racing in the
name Of John F. Schorr. his trainer.
Is a better horse this fall than he
ever was before. Not only is he hold
ing his own at three-quarters of q,
mile with the swiftest sprinters. but
he Is sticking IL out and winning over
Instances OF ground with the stoutest
route travellers.
The Porter has a., ali. .,,ht. -....
In Leochares. Leochares is hardly as
useful horse as The Porter, and for
TWO reasons. He is too slow a breaker
TO be a top-notch sprinter and he does
not care to 90 far enough to make a
nrst-rate route traveller. But Leo
chares falls between these classes.
and Tor what he can do he is an
right There was never a more re-
liable horse. Nor is there a racer OF
any age in Maryland just now that
has anything on this son of Broom
stick and Leayonara as regards condi-
ton.
Midnight Sun has improved until
his old friends would not know him
After seeing this brisk son Of Peep
O. Day beat the best horses in Mary
land and over greater distances than
three-quarters Of a mile. we are all
wondering now IN his earlier days
he could have been SO mismansg ged
as TO have lost cheap selling races.
The Pennsylvsnia-Maryla racing
i establishment OF Mr.. ard Mrs. Wal
, ter N. Jeffords will arrive from Aoue-
duct tomorrow. every member OF II
ready for colors. Mr.. and Mrs. JET
fords have retired Golden Broom. the
Sweeper II. colt with which they
, won the saratoga Special; but they
will have frst-rate 2-year-olds for the
/ Laurel Park and Pimlico races in
KinnouL. winner OF the Pimlico
Nursery stakes and the Albany Han
ciCap: First Consul an untried pub
licly) but very fast son Of Zeus and
Sans Gene, and the fiIly Flying
Flower. which won at Aqueduct last
week. with these 2-year-olds will
come the s-year-olds. Routledge and
star Hampton. the former a candi-
date for the $4,000 Maryland Handi-
cap. which will be run NEXT Satur-
day, the latter a possible starter on
Wednesday in the Capital Handicap.
the distance-running platter, Caquer
another recent Aqueduct winner; the
4-year-old spr1nter, DT. johnson. and
the jumpers, Bardie. ne Dean and
Babcock.