Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-28
Crowd Of $4,000 Slated
To See Campbell at Bowie
Stiff Wind Aids
In Drying Track;
Vertex Fovorite
BY JOSEPH B. KELLY
star Raeing Editor


With sunny skies replacing
yesterdays fog and rain, early
bird fans staked claim to some
$500 unreserved seats well in
advance Of post time at Bowie
today for the richest John B.
Campbell Memorial Handicap
In six runnings Of the mile-and-
a-sixteenth race.
Although It rained hard last
night. q sharp wind was help
ing In drying out the track.
Vertex. who rates with Chal-
ledon and Gallorette among the
best horses ever bred In Mary
land, was a Us favorite to win
his second straight 100000
event within q week against
10 select rivals. His regular
jockey. Sammy Boulmetis. win
ride.
With II starters, the Camp
bells pot Of gold would amount
to $1l7,150. making it the most
handicap ever run at
a Maryland track. The winner
is due to carry of $76.147.
Crowd Of $4,000 Expected
The prospect of the hardest
fought Campbell since Social
Outcast beat Fisherman and
Helioscope four years ago was
expected to attract the largest
crowd Of the Bowie meeting.
some $4,000.
Last Saturday the New Jersy-
owned son of The Rhymer and
Kanace proved his 35-year-old
trainer, Joe Piarulli, a former
school teacher, had nursed him
back to perfect health when ne
captured the 0,000-added
Gulfstream Park Handicap In
Florida.
Although Vertex, who races
for Frank A. Piarulli. the train
er's father, and Joseph ]. Bru.
netti, was the decided choice to-
day, he was far from unanimous
one with the experts or the So
dollar bettors.
There was strong backing for
Brookmeade Stables Oligarcify.
pegged at lit pounds, Z less
than the topweighted Vertex.
Oligarchy's connections hoped
the track would be fast at post.
time. Bobby Ussery. subbing
for the suspended Chris Rogers.
was due to pilot Oligarchy. who
was expected to 60 on as sec
ond choice at about 4-to-l. %"
Post Time Is 4:3S
The Campbell was scheduled
as the eighth race on Bowie's
final weekend program and
post-time was set for 4::38 PM
There will be no telecast OF the
race but q description was to be
carried on radio via MICS mon
itor program.
Not only was Vertex faced
with Oligarchy. but two train
ers, the canny William Hal
Bishop and the veteran Clyde
Trout, new trainer for MIS-.
Ada L. Rice's stable. were
double-teaming the favorite
with strong entries.
Bishop was saddling his Hare
Raising, l16, and Pete's Folly.
ll3, and Trout the surprise
starter, Air Pilot, lightweight
of the field at 10 pounds, and
Talent Show, 113. Air Pilot,
who prefers mud. finished third
to Vertex in the GulfstreaIn
last Saturday. beaten less than
a half length at a mile and Q
quarter.
Must End Bowie Jinx =
Hare Raising was trying to
throw of q Bowie jinx, win-
ming the Campbell after taking
the Bowie Handicap. The
much improved former platter
claimed by Bishop last De.
cember for only $1,000 at the
Fair Grounds, is undefeated
over the Bowie track. taking the
Bowie Handicap and an allow
ance event. ga
Jockey Robert Lee Baird was
riding Hare Raising and Will
lie CarStenS will be on Pete's
Folly, which Bishop claims is
the better horse despite being
beaten twice by Hare Raising
since they came to Bowie from
New Orleans. Bishops strategy
called for sending Hare Raising
to the front to battle Vertex.
who usually races on the pace,
with Pete's Folly to do the late
running. q
Trout was in a position to do
the same with Talent Show.
the speed horse, and Air Pilot
the stretch runner. = o.
~ .
Backbone q Factor
Among the outsiders, Bon
crist Farms Backbone, who
won seven stakes last season in
his 3-year-old campaign, APP
peared to have the best chance
of springtng an upset. Having
drawn the inside post. Back
bone, l16, also was expected
to be sent along with the early
speed by Jockey Walter Blum.
Backbone indicated his fitness
at Bowie recently with a 1.103S
sprint effort.
Not completely counted out
were John L. Appelbaum's Mis-
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