Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-12
UN3EATEN JUVENILE: HERO.
WILL RACE IN MARYLAND
Norwich Booked as Head Line
OF Meet to BE Held This
Month.
ISpecIal 81 The Tl.nes-pisratch.l

b Especial 70 The Times Dispatch
HAVRE DE GRACE. Sept IL
Norwich. the unbcatcn juvenile hero
OF Eastern two-ycar-old racing this
season. will he the hcadlincr OF r-ic
Hartford Agricultural and breeders
Associations. racing at IIavrc de
Grace on September 81, tho opening
day Of the autumn racing season in
Maryland.
Norwich Will be 81 starter Ia the
10000 Eastern shore handicap. a
race Of three quarters OF a mile for
iwo-ycar- clhs. and one Of four. So
900 sr"cials that will be decided hero
IN the course Of ten days meeting.
Tho Eastern shore viii attract az
strong field, probably as will have
been seen on an eastern course all the
year. The era OF big two year old
racing on the metropolitan ciScult
ended with the running of the Rel
mont park Futur!ty Saturday The
juvenile events OF the Aqucduct.
Jamaica and Yonkcrs meeting will
be Of only secondary Importance The
best exploitation OF two ycar-old tai.
cnt from this time on will be seen in
Maryland and Kentucky. Norwich will
do his fall racing exclusively in
Maryland and kentucky.
The Eastern shore, which was
raised 70 the dignity OF n Si0,0oo race
two seasons back. has been a Havre
dc Grace fixture since 1919. It's win
ncrs have been Tranid. Gaelic. Slip
shod. IIourlcss. T!ppity. Witchet. Hil-
ly Kelly. ConStancy and Careful.
Norwich. probably, Is = better young
gf a, 4f Ia
her day. and very likely he will prove
1t to the satisfaction OF the most Gx-
acting students of form before the
season 81 fall racing in the Old Line
State shall have ended.
Norwich Is Il California bred son of
Runnymcde and Hymir. She Is a
daughter of Puryea u. He was bred
by Adolrh Sprcckcls at the Napa stud
and brought East in the early spring
by William Carroll. n veteran horse
man Morvich's sirc-Runnymedc-
was got by tho celebrated sprintcr
Voter tsirc. also. Of the Manager and
BALLOT from Running Stream, a
| daughtcr OF the licht-footcd black
horse Domino. Rurnymcdc. hall
brother Of Pebbles and -Ultimus. was
a sprintcr himself and a very fast
! one. He was bred in Kentucky. but
! bought In Grtat Britain by Mr.
/ Sprcckcls. tho late Iarnss r. Kccnc
! having gent him across the water to
race in 1911.
Norwich aston:shcd n great crowd
at Jamaica by winning his first race
the Suffolk selling ;akes-by cigh'
| or ten lengths Max Iirsch. the de-
vclopcr OF Papp and on Watch, was
! so impressed by tho colts exhibition
of speed he immediately offered Car
| roll $4,000 for him. Notwithstanding
! Norwich had bad knee. Carroll ac-
cep.cd this offer because he. himself
was afraid OF that knee. Hirsch had
! hardly turned round before he was
offered a couple OF thousand dollars
for his bargain By Fred Burlcw. who
nctc1 on his own behalf and on that
| OF benjamin. BLOCK. q broker OF Wall
| street. Hirsch sold with the stipu-
! lation that he was to have part of
| the Hopeful purse if Norwich won the
! Hopeful.
Since his triumph = in tho suffolk
selling stakes Norwich has won eight
| other races. the United states Hotter
! stakes, the Saratoga Special and inc
| Hopeful among them. He has made
tremendous concessions to the best
! - his juvenile contemporaries and
beaten them all alike. His Hopeful
victor at Saratoga Melted s3i."oo. the
gross value, Of the great pr"duc"
| race of the Saratoga meeting having
! been in the rcighborhood Of $4,000
! His earnings aggregate sS'.ico lie is
/ the leader among two-year-o!d WIN
| ncrs. East and West. and he VIII not
! have to win more than Il couple OF
! the Maryland stakes for which he VIII
compete to keep in front 10 the end
| -: the season. In spite OF the en-
! largcd knee Norwich has not taken
lame step since he left the Sprcckeis
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