The Washington herald., 1919-04-02
STARTLING CAPTURES BOWIE
INAUGURAL IN EASY FASHION
Crowd Was Well Paid for Journey to Track
= as Five Well-contested Races Were
Run Off,
BY -SiG."


Despite a wind that seemed to
have come straight from Medicine
Hat with the sole intent of gripping
With its frigid fingers the Bowie
race track mesa (mesa is what a
horseman who once raced at Juarez
eaiis it), the spring racing season
In the East was ushered in with
remarkable attendance and with
seven races, nearly every one OF
which furnished ample excitement
to satisfy the most exacting.
A sun brightly shining part of the
day tempered the biting wind that
swept ceaselessly across the course,
and In IL the bundled racing fans
Dromenaded or pranced. according
10 the degree of their chill. between
contests on the track and the more
grueliing battle royals staged be-
fore post time of every race. except
the nrst. in the mutuei shed under
the erandstand.
Crush In Mutuel.
There Il was worth ones respectable
ity Of attire and eyenness Of temper to
buck the tides as they surged to and
fro toward the various betting alleys.
Especially lively was the crush and
scramble that followed blowing of the
bugfe for the second race. Everybody
at the track seemed to have developed
at the last moment a super-good thing
for this particular race. and all seemed
to have hit the mutuel shed together,
bound in as many directions as there
were places to bet The result was a
near-crush. with spectators, ticket
sellers and helpless policemen all vie
ing IN the passing of "take-your-time"
advice to those about. When the
crush-had about reached its height 1t
melted magicaliy at the sound Of the
they're or bell.
Fivc splendid races-contests well
worth the journey to the track
marked the running of the days
card These were the Bowie Inaug-
ural. taken in rather easy fashion
by that sterling 6-year-old son of
Marta Santa, Startling; the League
Handicap, in which Bolster, odds-on
favortte. nailed the heavily played
maiden. Joseph P. Murphy. at the
stretch turn, after the last-named
had tried to make a runaway race
of IL and won as Jockey Sneideman
pleased; the fifth. in which Lord
Herbert. rated perfectly to the
stretch by Sneideman, emerged from
the bunch Of contenders 100 yards
from the wire and won by two
lengths, and the sixth and seventh
races, captured by Fountain FAY and
Boxer. respectively, after gruelling
stretch battles.
Startling Wins First Out.
Greatest interest, perhaps, CEN
tered in the third race, in which
Startling. Charley Leydecker, Roi
Craig. and Mahoney seemed about
equally favored by the spectators
insofar as roofing" went.
Beyond the favored few in the
know Startling's condition was a
matter largely of conjecture. but the
manner In which he wrapped up the
lead unwound by Mahoney after the
barrier was sprung left no doubt in
the minds Of his hackers that the
Inaugural was his In which to shine.
At the head of the stretch the race
looked to belong to Leydecker, Roi
CraSS- favored second in the betting,
or Startling. The weight told on the
heavily backed favorite, and he land
ed aspoor third with Startling and Roi
Craig strung apart at the wire.
Bolster's jockey. in the feature. in
dulged Joseph p. Murphy to the head
Of the stretch. where the imported son
OF Marco was unwrapped to sweep
out Of the bunch trailing Murphy and
win eased up.
By far the prettiest race Of the day
was the fifth. at one mile. Harry
Brieyogle jumped into the lead at
the astart with Antoinette, Graphic,
Peerless One and Lord Herbert fol-
lowing closely in the order named.
In another weIl-tfmed ride, Sneide-
man set Lord Herbert down in the
stretch. and the son OF Fftz Herbert
responded with a brilliant burst of
speed which carried him through the
punched field to an easy victory. An
toinette tired at the finish and lasted
just long enough to beat the fast
. coming Peerless One. Graphic from
promising three-quarters finished
disappointingIy.
Amaze Wins Opener.
The first race brought out as the
winner a good-lookin., youngster from
the stable Of H P. Whitney, a 2-year-
old bay colt, Amaze, IS Broomstick-
Daisy F, which earned brackets In
her first race. but had to be hard
ridden to stall of the far less iu.-
pressive appearing but certainly as
impressive running King James
Doughnut bay colt, c. S. Grayson,
one OF n. X. Beals entry, which.
had the race been ten yards further,
would have won with atmosphere to
spare. Grayson finished going great,
With riders reversed, he doubtless
would have won. Robinson had the
teg up on the winer, while G. Corey
rode C S. Grayson.
Backers OF Edith Baumann, in the