The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-02


In Maryland, the Bowie meeting
will be followed by meetings OF thir-
teen days each at Havre de Grace
and Pimlico. Four $1,000 stakes
will be decided in the course of the
Havre de Grace meeting. The SEES
sion at Pimlico will be marked by
a renewal of the $4,000 Preakness.
Maryland's richest three-year-old
special.
for the impending meeting at Prince
Georges Park. Seventy-nVe or
eighty horses wintered there under
the eye of Richard Pending, Tor
mer steeplechase jockey who be-
came the Bowie superintendent sew
eral seasons back and has developed
into one of the best ever. Every
day or SO a carload of horses rolls in
from Havana. Next come two or
three carloads from New Orleans.
Some Of the horses that partici-
pated In the recently finished
meeting ut the Fair Grounds, New
Orleans, are racing Mt Mobile, but
not the best. The best are assem-
bling Mt Bowie. Two carloads
have recently arrived from the
HippodromO de Ia C0ndesa, where
a winter meeting of forty days
that began on January Ia, was con
Quoted by James F. O'Hara and
Cadson Bryan. jr., the geniuses Of
Bowie racing. Mr.. O'Hara has
lust come back from Mexico to
superintend the preparations for
the Forthcoming Bowie meeting.
Mr.. Bryan expects to remain in
Mexico for another fortnight.
Among the arrivals from Mexico is
Edward Rice. of Colorado. Rice did
not bring much in the way OF horses
But he is accompanied by a young
rider Of the highest promise in Wayt.
Wayt is eighteen and has an appren-
tice allowance. Unless he backslides
he should make his mark at Bowie
and at the other tracks of Maryland
and New York later on.
He Is possessed OF much natural
skill. He does not worry his mounts
at the barrier, and while he was rid.
ing at the Hippodromo de la Condesa
he was almost invariably away well.
He rides better out in front than from
behind. He has a natural instinct for
pace and never asks too much OF
horse merely because that horse hap
pens to be out in front and running
easily.
His most conspicuous fault is his
tendency, when he is riding in the
ruck of a race, to seek short cuts
home by the rail. Generally this Is
a good thing to do. But there are
h.
the longest way round Is the quickest
way home. Wayt has not yet learned
to discriminate. Rice, or whoever
Rice peddles him TO here or about
New York, must teach Wayt that
all races are not run the same way;
that the strategy that wins success
on one occasion may not be practi-
cable another time. Wayt is quick
and intelligent.
Watson, youth Of twenty.
one with a wider experience than
Wayts, will be i'm Baltimore i'm
time for the Bowie opening. He
Is coming with the stable of Wal
lin and Bryan. WatsOn's winning
average at the HippOdrOmO dc Ia
COndesa was better than Wayt's
Watson, unquestiOnably, Is the
more finished rider Of the pair.
But he Is heavier than Wayt and
not SO generally serviceable.
When all of the horses that are
coming from the South and West
shall have assembled at Prince
Georges Park there will be some
700 available for the impending
meeting, which will be an abund-
anCe. O'Hara once conducted a
spring meeting of seventeen days
durati ton at Bowie with fewer than
$50 horses. Sickness had pros.
trated rs per cent of a colony Of
500.
Most of the staff that assisted in
the management of the Hippodromo
de la Condesa meeting will be on
the job at Prince Georges Park.
Joseph A. Murphy and Edward
Tribe will be in the judges stand.
Herman Conklin, one of the Hippo
dromo de Ia Condesa stewards, will
serve as director of racing. George
Miller will handle the starters flag.