Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-05
RICHMOND COLTS WILL OPEN SEASON nv NEWPORT \
CASTERS RACES TO OPEN
ON BAL |M0RE COURSE.
Meetings Will Begin April |
al Bowie or Prince
Georges Park.
WILL LAST FOURTEEN DAYS
Southern Maryland Agricultural A.
soclntion VIII Distribute About
10000 TO Participating Horsemen
Each Day or Contest.

""cin1ioh VIII Distribute About
$4,000 TO Participating Horsemen
Each Day OF Contest.
BALTIMORE. March 4.-Bowie race
course-Pr!nae Georges Park is its
hishhautin name--wiil be the scene /.
of the fi,st race meeting of the East
of 1922. The meeting at Bowie will
begin on April l. IT will 20 CON
Quoted by tho Southern Maryland
Agricultural Association and on each
OF It's fourteen days some $4,000 will
be distributed among the participat-
ing horsemen. No race will have N
smaller value in added money than
Sl'ooO Handicaps will pay $1,000.
There Will be some small stakes. Be
cause OF the earliness OF Bowie
spring racing the Southern Maryland
Association has never attempted tn
put over an elaborate porgram or
STAKES. Few horses that have not
taken part in winter racing in the
south are ready to compete in stakes
In the first fortnight OF April. II
mas been considered better policy to
Keep the overnight purses up and
SUIT an races to the fitness of the
available horses. In Maryland the
Bowie meeting will be followed by
meetings of thirteen days each mt
harve de Grace and Pimlico Four
$4,000 stakes will be decided in the
course of the Harve de Grace meet
ing. The session at Pimlico will he
marked by rcncwa! OF the s40.0Oo
Preakncss, Maryland's richest 3-year-
old special.
Plenty or Material.
mere VIII be plenty of material
or the impending meeting n, Prince
$3.50 FarK Seventy-fve or
eighty horses wintered there under
sne eye OF Richard Pending. a former
stecpiechase jockey who became the
Bowie superintendent several senson.
PACK and has developed into one or
.he best ever. Every day or 80 n car.
,oao OF horses rolls in from Havana.
-NeNt come two or three carloads
from New Orleans. Some OF tho
i'".ses that participated in the rec
"''ished meeting at the Fair
Hrounus' New Orleans, are racing M
Mobile. but not the best. The hest
are assembling ut Bowie. Two car
uoaos nave recently arrived from the
hippodromo de Ia Condesa where
winter meeting of rorIy DAYS Inn,
began on January Il, was conducted,
ny James r. O'Hara and C,dson
bryan junior. the geniuses OF Bowie
acihs. Mr.. OHara has Just come
-, -"cAico 10 superintend the
preparations for the forthcominm
Bowie meeting. Mr.. Brvon eSnn.,
10 remain IN Mexico for nnn,ha
fortnight. 'ot"eF
Hiring irOniisinE Rider.
+, inohs the arrivals from Mexico ia
i.uward Nice, OF Colorado. Rice din
not bring much In the way OF horsas
nut he Is nccomanied by vo,,nr
W ,uer OF me highest promise in wayt.
way Is IS and has an apprentice al
iowance. Unless lie backslides 10
should make his mark MT pnu,ia 80
at the other tracks OF MARYLAND ana
new York later on. He is possesaed
Oh much natural Skill He docs NOT
worry ms mounts at the barrier ana
Whiie he was riding at the Hipno-
urotne de In Condesa, he was almost
Invariably away well. He rides bet
yer out In front than from behind
nc mas natural instinct for mace
ana never asks too much OF :: horsnt
merely because that horse hann.ns 80
be out in front and runninr aas,I,,
t's most conspicuous fault is his TEN
uehcy' when he is riding in the ruck
OF race, to seek short cuts homo hv
me ran. Generally this is n good
thing TO do. But there are times when
IL can't be done. when the longest
way round Is the quickest way home
49, MS not yet learned to diScrim-
mate. Rice. or whoever Rice peddles,
MN to. here, or about New York. must
teach Wayt that all races are not run
inc same way. that the strategy that
WINS success on one occasion may nor
De practicable another time wayt 10
quick and intelligent Watson y.
youth OF Il, with a wider experiences
man Wayts. will be In Baltimore in
.iinc Tor Bowie opening. He is com
.nS With the stable OF Wallin and
brEan. Watson's winning average MT
the Hippodrome de In Condesn was
better than Wayts Watson. unoues-
.iohaoiy' is the more finished rider of
the pair. But he is heavier than Wayt
ana not so generally serviceablc.
When all CT the horses that are
coming from the South and West
shail have assembled at Prince
ieorge's Park, there will be some 700
avnilablc for the impending meeting.
which VIII be an abundance. O'Hara
once conducted n spring meeting OF
seventeen days duration at Bowie
with fewer, than $50 horses. Sickness
had Frustrated - per cent OF n col
ohy or 800. Most OF the staff that as
sisted in the management of the Him.
podrome'de In Condesa meeting will
be on the job at Prince Georges Park.
Joseph \. Murphy and Edward Tribe
VIII DO In the judges stand. Herman
Conkl!n one of the Hippodrome de la
condesa stewards. will serve as di-
rector of racing, George Miller will
handle the starters flag