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CARMAN STRING TO RACE AT BOWIE. Baltimore, Md., November 9. Trial by Jury, G. M. Miller, Startling, Surprising, Queen of Paradise, Nigel, Lady Barbary and the two-year-olds AVhitnev Belle, Amalgamator, Bright Star and The Onlv One, constitute the stable Richard F. Carman and his son, R. F. Carman, Jr., will take to Bowie after the finish of the limlico meeting. Since his return from Canada early in September Mr. Carman has freshened his horses, and they have been winning at Laurel and Pimlico. AVashing-tonians will follow the fortunes of the stable at Bowie with particular interest, for the Carman string is a AAashington outfit. Mr. Carman wintered the major part of the establishment at Ben-ning last year and prepared its members on the old AAashington Jockey Club track last spring. It is hardly likely that either Achievement or Surprising will race at Bowie. Surprising fell lame at Laurel, and Mr. Carman and AVilfrid Aiau of Montreal, his partner in the ownership of Achievement, also of Trial by Jury, want to save the big son of Hastings for the season of 1917. All of the others, however, are on edge. Trial by Jury, for which Mr. Carman and his partner paid 0,000 to Captain E. B. Cassatt at Saratoga in August, has been showing in his work and, under colors, somethings of the speed which marked his performances as a two and three-year-old, and old G. M. Miller seems to have taken on a new lease of life. This active nine-year-old has not been beating this fall horses of the quality he met and defeated when he was in his heydey, but he is regularly taking the selling platers -into camp. Queen of Paradise, a home-bred three-year-old, is winning among the second-grade selling platers, while Startling, day by day, is weighted by eastern handicappers well up with the best of the sprinters. Lady Barbary came to the races at Laurel in October after more than a year of idleness and she lias not struck a winning gait yet. -She improves witli every outing, however, and is sure to win before snow flies. Nigel, a maiden until well along in the Laurel meeting, has developed into a longdistance runner almost, if not quite, as good as G. M. Miller is. J. Butwell and C. Borel will do the riding for the Carman stable at Bowie. Butwell has taken a stiff hold on himself here in Maryland and is showing dash and initiative of a high order. He is. in fact, riding as well as he ever did, and if he keeps on at his present gait he is sure of a good engagement next year. Borel kept himself fit by exercising horses for the Carman stable while he was under suspension and was ready, when the news of his reinstatement came early in the week, to don colors. It is not improbable that the senior Carman may take a string of second and third raters to New-Orleans in the course of the coming winter, as he did last year, but the bulk of his establishment will winter either at Kenning or Bowie under the eye of his son. The Carmans have a band of promising yearlings by The Turk and other stallions, all of them home-bred, at Benning, and the younger member of the firm will be busy breaking them through the month of December.
