The Washington herald., 1919-03-24
TURFMEN AWAIT
BOWIE OPENING.
Prices Indicate This Will
Be Big Year for the
Thoroughbreds.
By O'NEIL SEWER.


Baltimore, March 23.-If the prices
that are being offered at Benning
track for 2-year-olds in various stables
that are readying up for the meetings
of the Southern Maryland Agricultural
Association. the Hartford Agricultural
and Breeders Association and the
MARYLAND Jockey Club, the first OF
which, the Southern Maryland session,
will be inaugurated at Bowie track
next Tuesday and run a fortnight
are prophetic this Is going to be
big year for thoroughbred values.
William P. Burch seems to be the
would-be buyer with the strongest
bank account back OF him fester-
day he offered Richard F. Carman
$4,000 for his Meridian-Daruma colt
Carmandale and was turned down
nat Mr.. Burch had previously Of
fered Albert Simons $4,000 for a big
bay colt by Broomstick out of Daisy
F., and been told by Simmons to write
to James Rowe at Brookdale farm,
that he CSimons) would not sell the
colt of his own motion for less than
$50, 900. Two days before Mr.. Birch
made these offers for the Broomstick
and Meridian colts ]. X. Skinker, OF
Washington, a motor car man who
broke into racing last season by buy
ing Sweep Up ID, and one or two
other horses, offered Max Smart 5000
for a smart chestnut colt by Celt OUT
OF Lady Isabel belonging to Samuel
Ross, of Washington. Smart called
Mr.. Ross up and told him of the OFFER
and Mr.. Ross told Smart not to sell.
Carmandale, the Meridian-Daruna
colt which Mr.. Carman refused to sell
is a slashinE bay perfectly balanced,
Is hands IL to Is hands 3 inches
tall, with a fine "breedy" head, big
fiat cannon bones and big healthy
feet. Last fall when the Carmans
broke this youngster he turned
quarter in % 2-5 seconds. He is grow
ing apace and MIR. Carman believes
that he will make a sixteen-hander.
like his sire. for which he is a ringer.
Mr. Burch made the offer for Car
mandale in the presence of the writer
and he declared that Carmandale was
about the most promising two-year-
old at Benning in a season already
noted for smart youngsters. Carman-
dale is a half brother of that remark
ably fast three-year-old development
of last season, Louise V, a daughter
of The Turk. That he is the smartest
of the Carman youngsters may be
taken for granted. He would not have
been named Carmandale otherwise.
CaTmandale is the name of the Car
man farm in Montgomery County,
Maryland.
The Broomstick-DaIsy F. colt Mr..
BurCh tried to buy from Albert ST.
mons-and may obtain yet-Is a young
ster of the family of Thunderer. Re
gret, Modesty, etc, a tail female de-
scendant of the celebrated Maria
West, in fact. He is one Of the best
looking Broomsticks that has been
broken in many seasons. He has more
size than the average, plenty of length
and bulk and the best of legs. He Is
one of a dozen nicely bred youngsters
from Brookdale farm James Rows
sent to Mr.. Simons at the beginning OF
the winter to be readied up for the
early meetings. A couple of years ago
Simons made the prediction in mid
winter that he would win the nrst
race of the Bowie meeting with
Broomstick gelding which afterwaru
won distinction under the name of Tip
petty Witchet. Tippety WItchet made
good for him. Simons has now a bet
with young Lewis Garth. who is train
ing one of the divisions of the stable
of Captain Raj Parr, of Baltimore. at
Benning, that he will beat him (Garth)
in the first race of the Bowie meeting
with one OF the Whitney youngsters
he is training at Benning. But he has
not said that it is the Broomstick-
Daisy F. colt. However. it is the
guess of the trainers at Benning that
the Broomstick-Daisy F. colt Is the
horse he is going to try and beat
young Garth with.
The Celt-Lady Isabel colt for which
Mr.. Skinker offered Mr.. Ross N.COJ
is a short legged, close coupled chest
nut of unusual thickness and breadth.
He Is an own brother of Celtabel and
Ballymooney. Some might object to
his short neck, but it might be well
to remember that Mohawk H.. Caugh-
nawaga, Chuctanunda and Sir John
johnson were short-necked horses and
they were exceptionally good, whether
at sprinting or at distance running.