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11ACING ENDS IN THE EAST BOWIE HAS MUDDY TRACK FOR FINAL DAY OF THE MARYLAND SEASON. Thanksgiving Handicap Is Captured Handily hy Bondage, with Hauberk, the Favorite, Second, and Brooks in Third Placfe. Howie, Md., November 30. The eastern racing season eauic to an end with the running of the usual .seven events at the Howie track this afternoon, and, as a result of the heavy rain of last night, the going was deep and made to order for the mud runners. As a result of the change in the track conditions, there were numerous absentees in every nice, but as the entry list had been large good-sized fields were named to start in all races. The Thanksgiving Handicap, for two-year-olds anil over at a mile and a sixteenth, was the most important race decided. Hauberk was made the favorite, with Mrs. .Tames Arthurs good two-year-old Iioudage, which won yesterday, the next in demand, and the latter was the one to do the trick. After Christie had made the running to the far turn, Robinson sent Hauberk to the lead and held it to the hist eighth. Bondage then closed up with his usual speed and had no trouble in drawing out and won the race easily. Hauberk was just, as easily second, while Brooks just got the show money. The Baltimore Junior Handicap, for two-year-olds at six and a half furlongs, resulted in a big upset when Lucius came home the winner. Friendless lead the field to the head of the stretch, closely followed by Mnuokin, where they tired badly and both finished out of the first three. Lucius went into the lead in the last eighth and then drew out to win by a length and a half, while Dandy Dude was able to take second money from Kilts by a length. Jockey Crump, who rode four winners yesterday, vas again in good form today as he won the first two races with Merchant and Progressive and then li.uded Bondage, the winner in the Thanksgiving Handicap. Two carloads of horses, the property of Ed. Moore, George Phillips. G. Hennessy and several other owners, were shipped to New Orleans, today to await the opening of the Business Mens Rnc-ing Associations meeting in that city, which opens mi January 1. Manager .lospeh A. Murphy stated today that he had applications for stalls for over three hundred horses that have been racing in these parts and that they will be shipped to New Orleans within the next week. Jockey Collins was taken seriously ill before the first race today and had to cancel all his mounts, and he was removed to the Haltimorc Hospital. Captain W. F. Presgrave. one of the best-known turfmen in the Tinted States and Canada, died suddenly last night of heart trouble at his home in .Salisbury, Md. Captain Presgrave raced some horses for himself and also trained the horses of J. K. L. Ross, the Montreal turfman, and Thomas Clyde. He was also in charge of the mutiiel plant at tlie Pimlico track in Haltimorc and last fall took charge of the mutuels at the Dorval Montreal track. lie trained many good horses in his time, among them being Bryn Mawr and Short Hose. Speedinast owned by Samuel Boss, the dam of Boss good two-year-old Ultimatum, died on Tuesday last at A. B. Hancocks LTlerslie Stud at Charlottesville, Va. J. G. Wagnon today purchased Bac from W. P. Austin, Jr. The terms of the sale wore private. N. Byer and W. L. Oliver shipped their stabks to Iikewood, X. J., where they will winter.
