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; f . 1 FEATURE RACE OF BOWIES LAST DAY. Good Horses Expected to Compete- in the Thanksgiving- Day Handicap. Bowie, Md., November 2S. The last day of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations autumn meeting and the close of the Maryland racing season, will be Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 30. For the .final day of racing, the Thanksgiving Handicap itt one and one-sixteenth miles, will be the feature. There are twenty eligibles for this race and a large and representative field should go to the post. The weights have not yet been announced, but it is safe to assume that W. P. Orrs Leochares will be one of the top weights. Handicapper E. C. Smith required the son of Proomstiek to take up 130 pounds in the Southern Maryland Handicap the other day, and John Powers declined the issue. That race was over the mile distance, and it would have been a severe task tovsct the speedy gelding. Just how he will be treated in the Thanksgiving Handicap remains to be seen, but he surely will not be required to give as good a horse as Hauberk ten pounds in actual weight. This same Hauberk has come to be a useful nicer and he has reached something like the form he promised early in his two-year-old season. It was the success of Hauberk early in 1914 that induced AV. It. Coo to pay 12,500 for him at the dispersal sale of the J. L. Holland string. His J first nice for Mr. Coe was in the Keene Memorial at Uelmont Park and he was just nosed out for that rich prize by James Butlers good filly Comelv. He was never able to come back to anything like that performance and at no time while he bore the Coe silks was he able to race to his early promise, or attain anything like the successes of his brother. Gainer. Hauberk, now a four-year-old, is a better horse than he ever was for Mr. Coe, and his race Saturday, when he took up 120 pounds and beat a good band over the mile distance, will make him one of the really dangerous ones in the Thanksgiving Handicap. Hut while discussing the good ones, possibly the best on the grounds is J. AV. Mays Bayberry Candle and she will probably bo top weight over Leochares. This "remarkable mare is certainly more at home over the mile and a sixteenth distance than is the son of Broomstick, and she has on frequent occasions shown herself to be a superior weight carrier. She has been galloping well for May, and her known ability to race through muddy going should be an advantage at Uowie, for there is considerable top soil to the track and at its best it is slow going. J. S. Tyree is represented by both Celto and King Neptune in the closing handicap of the local season, and both of them are right on edge. Em 11 Herz has named Daddys Choice, which is well suited at the distance. George Odoni has T. J. Smiths Marse Henry as his dependence, but the route seems just a bit far for him. G. A. Mullers Fcnmouse is another, but she appears to have gone back slightly. Others in the prospective field are B. Murrays Sarirlliill, E. T. Zollicoffers All Smiles and Christie, It. D. Earles Kilmer, Mrs. James Arthurs good two-vear-old Bondage, E. K. Brysons Vermont, J. AV. Beans Indian Chant one that is improving with each appearance, Thornhill Stables Thornhill, S. Housemans Polroma, Archibald Bark- lies Holiday, the Northwood Stables Marchena and Joseph E. Davis Brooks, which has to his credit at the meeting a score over some of the fastest sprinters in training. From such a collection a truly excellent field is sure to come, and the Thnnksgiving Handicap should bring the sport in Maryland to a fitting close.
