Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-14
BON|FACE DEVELOPS
NICELY At maryland
Commander Ross. Owner, In
tends to Send Horse
TO Kentucky.

BALTIMORE. May Roniface,
son OF Transvaal and Ceriua. aud
winner now OF more than 100000 in
stakes and purses is another spring
development Of Maryland racing that
VIII go west presently To take part
In the renewals ut Churchill Downs
of the Kentucky Jockey Clubs Slp.-
600 handicaps for aycar-olds and
over. the Clark. one mile and fur
long and tho Kentucky. one mile and
4 quarter.
boniface will bear the silks in Ken
lucky OF Commander j. X. T.. Ross.
OF Montreal. who has owned him since
h" was 3-ycar-oid. and wilt cx-
plot him at the stud when he shall
have finished with racing. II was
partly because he owned RonifRcc
ono OF the soundest and most prom
ising. physically. OF the available
American stations OF the potent
Commando line that Commander Ross
recently sold to Monttort and u. H.
Jones. his even more famous race
horse. Str Barton. winner OF the Ken
tGchy Derby ana Preakncss. withers
aud Belmont stake renewal. nf the
season OF 1919. Boniface had won
up Ia the finish of last seasons rae
Ing little more shan s91. 900. lie
passed the 100000 mark. the coy
eted goal OF American race horses
at Havre de Grace in April. when he
defeated his great geldinE rival. EN-
termiuator. IN Il renewal OF the Phil
adelphia handicap.
Tn" prospect OF meetings between
FNtermipator and Boniface-Exter-
minai"r. also. Is to make a kentucky
campaign this sprinE-in the inn
pending Clark and Kentucky handi-
cap renewals invests those races with
the keenest anticipatory interest.
Kentucky could not get out OF the
East two more famous or better
matched horses. That both are in
better conditions than Audacious and
the other thoroughbreds of mature
years that are To go TO Kentucky
from New York Is certain. Both had
The advantage OF early spring train
Ing in Maryland. and both raced at
HaVrc de Grace. Before Extermina-
tor started against Boniface In the
Philadelphia handicap he astonished
a big crowd at Iiavrc de Grace by
winning the Hartford handicap re-
newal. n sprint OF six furiongs Boni-
face ran that powerful 3-year-o old
EeldinG Olympus to Il head in an
overnight race before he started in
the Philadelphia. 1t was the season
ing this hard race gave him probably
that enabled him To beat Extermina-
tor in tho philadelphia.
EXtermiuator is the more widely
revered OF these horses because of
his success in such popular specials
as the kentucky Derby. the I.atonia.
Saratoga, pimlico and Autumn Gold
Cups. But really there is little to
choose between them. In the last
two renewals OF the Pimlico Cup
Boniface and EXterminator have
driven furiously for upward OF three
eighths OF mile Exterminator to
win by the shortest heads in each
instance. IT Boniface had been Il
luckier In the draw for post pu-
sitions at P:r,lico last fall he. and
not EXtcrminator. would surely have
been the winner of the cup renewal.
1t was because he had to race on
Exterminator's right and make big
ger circuits in the turns than the
long striding McGee gelding took
that Exterminator beat him. There
was difference OF five pounds be-
tween these horses when they met
I'm the lac Pimlico Cup renewal
At Havre de Grace In April the
Handicapped jumped Exterminator
farther than his autumn form OF last
year and Boniface. warranted He
che handicapper) asked Extermina-
tor Ia give Boniface eleven pounds
Bonifnce accordingly beat Extermina-
tor by head. Rcsuming their p
years-old rivalry ut Pimlico on May
in the Pim,ico Spring Handicap
renewal. ENtcrminator under 1913
Siounds. Honiface under 1876. Extcrmi-
nator turned the tables and beat Boni-
face a head. The kilmer and Ross
champions do not seem to know how
to beat each other by wider mar
gin than IL head" And whenever
they hook up two or three furlongs
from the finish OF distance race
that Is inevitably To result in n head
victory for one or the other the drive