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R. F. CARMANS RACING MATERIAL. Washington. D. C, March 22.— Diehard I.. Carman has brought from New Orleans to Dealing the most promising three year-old developed over winter for the coming meeting at Bowie. This is Skeer Face, a son of Hippodrome and Fleeing Venus. He was not in the band of veteran campaigners Mr. Carman took to New Orleans last fall. He was acquired down there and Mr. Carman and nearly every oth r horseman who has seen him race believes that lie will go any distance. No horse hereabouts has more speed for seven-eighths or one mile and he is sure to be a startr r in the Inaugural Handicap, a race of seven-eighths of a mile that will be the feature of the opening da.s racing at Bowie. Mr. Carman has another potential Inaugural candidate in Achievement, which wintered at Denning under the eye of Diehard F. Carman. Jr., but it is hardly likely that he will be ready. Achievement has grown into one of the biggest and handsomest horses on the Denning track, bit he is hardly mi to a high -class effort. The horses that Mr. Canaan brought back from New Orleans with skeer Fmc were Startling, Droomvale. Klla Dryson. 0. M. Miller. Typography. Garaet, Linda Payne and Biaaeaway. He lost tl pad wood out of a selling race. The horses are all ready for racing. Mr. Carman handled them more with a view of having them ready for the spring races in Maryland than to win at New Orleans. startling, a remarkably fist little son of Marts Santa, which came to hand early last year and ran several creditable races before the horses left Maryland, has become a likely sort of colt. The Caimans do not believe that he will be a stave;-, but they look for him t . race well within his distance. Klla Bryaon, the veteran of many a hard battle. is through with racing. Mr Carman will mate her this spring to Lis handsome Broomstick si ill,, a Meridian, which, with The lurk, is at Benning. The first foal to the cover of Meridian came into the world last Saturday morning. It i a hands.. no • »1 T and its mother i- the California mare Daruma. a fast sprinter not no many years back, and a big. fine looking broodmare now. Dam and foal are doing as well as , ,,iiiei be expected. Horizon. Achieve, Paradise Queen and one or two others of Mr. Carmans marcs are- due to foal shortly to Meridian, while The Turk has three as handsome yearlingi a- one would wish to see playing about the infield. The h-.t-s.-s mat wintered in this part of tie eountrx with Achievement under the- eye of the "junior" Carman were Surprising and the two-year "Ids Bright Stir. Caietv and the Only One. all fillies, the first named being ■ daughter of Star Shoot, the second a daughter of Sain an ! the other a daughter of Ballot. The Sain filly claims Minnie Adams, the best •laying CenarioU that ever came to the races, as her dam. and si-e- j A whale ef a two-year-old. She stHlids just under 18 hands, weighs close- to 1,125 pounds and has the development of u four- year-old. She can run. too. in spite of her size, ami will be ready to race next month. The two year-obis Mr. Carman bought last season were fillies, because he is ambitious to breed the- horses that carry his colors hereafter. lie acquired these youngsters to mate with Meridian and The lurk when they finish with racing. The Turk, best of the sons of lb-no. is a sure foal getter, and he stamps his offspring with his own bodily likeness, which is a good sign in a young stallion and indicates prepotency. More is expected of the four-year-old Surprising this year than that good -looking son of Marti Santa showed Inst ye-ar. Surprising was under the weather pretty much all year with a bad leg. lint the ailing member was treated last fall anil a winters easy galloping has restored it to its original soundness, apparently. Surprising strips as wi-ii as an] horse at Benning ami is nenrer a race, perhaps, than any other horse of the Carman string.
