Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-23
BANNER RAGING SEASON
FOR MARYLAND TRACKS
Fall Meetings at Bowie and
Pimlico Attract Leading
Horses of East and West.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 23.-Thc uu-
tumn racing ut Prince Georges Park.
Bowie. Of the Southern Maryland
| Agricultural Association Will bc
marked by the running of two long
Instance stake events. one at on.
mile and five furlonga the other at
one mile and seven furlongs. ThiS
information was given out the other
day by General Manager James r
| b'liara. who said ut the time that
the conditions OF the prospective
i-stakes would he announced as soon
az possible. The values Of the two
| distance events also will be fixed
| later ON. They will be sufficiently
attractive to bring To Bowie the best
horses at distance racing that will
he Still in training after the finish Of
the Maryland Jockey Clubs Noyem-
Der session at Pimlico. There should
be plenty OF route travelling class in
Maryland the fall. The Maryland
Jockey Clubs two $4,000 specials.
the Rowic cup. Iallop Of one mile
and half, and the Pimlico cup. n
i;aliop IF two miles and a quarter.
WIFE bring this way the best distance
| runners Of Kentucky and New York
racing. Racing in Kentucky and
Now York will end on October 90
thc Kentucky fall season having
begun considerably earlier than
usual The Maryland meetings at
l'nniico and Bowie will have no COM
petition.
The I:owic fail session. which will
wind up racing in the east for 1921.
VIII begin on November 10. two days
after the horses will have finished
at timlico. and continue through the
2Gth--clcven days in all. The finish
at LOWE will synchronize with the
beginning of racing at the winter
courses of Jefferson Park. New Or
leans: Oriental Park. Havana. and
Tijuana. Mexico. The Southern
Maryland Agricultural Associa ton
jinaugurates and finishes the seasons
Fof Eastern sport regularly. Prince
Georges PARK having taken the place
In the Eastern scheme racing that
once belonged 10 Benntng and tho
Old Washington Jockey Club.
The eleven days racing at Bowie
will be marked by the distribution
among owners Of the participating
The programme has not yet been
horses OF Il matter of 500. 600 or more
made up. But the general scheme
Of past meetings will he followed.
save that purses will he increased.
The Bowie management Will stage
another race for horses owned in the
army and ridden by officers in uni
form, these events having proven
pouplar features Of Prince Georges
Park sport IN the past.
The distance of the military race
has not been determined. That will
he left to the election of the Remount
Service, which will have charge of the
race. IT is probable. however, that
the distance will he fixed at one mile
and {, quarter. The army race on the
fiat at Belmont Park in September.
| was an affair of one mile and three
quarters. and IL developed one Of the
hriskiest contestS OF the Westminster
Associations fall meetings. The ad
vantage Of fixing distances for these
.,,.my races is that distance racin5
| brings into competition, stceplechas-
ers that would not compete at one
mile and a sixteenth or one mile, or
seven furiongs. Tine winner and the
contender in the Belmont Park army
| race-Courtcous and Chester Two
both are cross country horses that
had been trained to go far.
The stabling capacity of Prince
Georges Park has been materially in
creased since last spring. and Super
| ,ntendcnt Richard Pending has con-
| tinued his work of rendering uniform
| the texture of the going from one
end of the track to the other. Get
ting an even texture as . regards
footing Prince Georges Park. has hecn
/ difficult, because the mile course. with
Its seven furlong starting chute. lies
! on n piece of ground that shows
/ three geological strata. In the back
stretch, the Bowie course Is n thirty
| eight" y course. IN the turns and
through the homestretch II is n
| ..forty-four" sourse. This unusual
| condition accounts for the fact that
races OF seven furlongs and shorter
| distances are paced much faster than
are races OF one mile and over.