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VETERAN RUNES WILL RACE AT BOWIE. Couple of Smart Two-Year-Olds Also in Mirasol Stable Managed by Jake Byer. Raltimore. Md.. March 30. — Runes, a veteran of three years of hard racing and a favorite everywhere oast of the Mississippi river and in Canada, and a t OB pie of two-year-olds by Fitz Herbert, are the stars of the string of the New York moing picture man. who hides his identity under the track name of Mirasol Stable, will campaign at Bowie this spring during the spring session of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. The Mirasol horses are being managed this year by Jake Hyor. It is no cinch that Hyor will be able to got Runes ready for the Bowie Inaugural, which is to be the feature race of the opening days program. Hut the stout littl- son of Voorhees will be scon aad -r colors before the mooting bus proeeeded many days. Klines always be-ins the season well in Maryland. It has become a habit with him. East year he made si mething of a whirlwind finish, for he surprised a big crowd at I-aurcl one day last October by defeating Spur. Borrow, mttcrgold and Short Grass at one mi.o and an eighth in 1:" 0~-.. Runes has wintered satisfactorily and is carrying more flesh than usual. The two Fitz Herbert two-year-olds were bought last summer at the sale of the yearlings of the French stud of Clarence H. Maekay along with another youngster named Free Love, by the French stallion C!ionborski--Courtesane. One is a filly re-oeiitly named Fan Tan. foaled by Speotrum. anil tiie other a colt. Lord Herbert, foaled by Manzanita. The filly is a bay of fair size and fine balance with black points. She has four good sound legs under her and she knows how to use them. Lord Herbert Resembles His Sire. Lord Herbert is etrlklagly like his sire in eon-formation and action. He is part American. His dam. Manzanita. a daughter of Meddler and Flocar-Uae, she a daughter of St. Florian — Carline and the dam of Muster Roberts, winner of the last Helmont Iark Autumn weight-for age race in which he defeated Fair ITay. was bred in Kentucky before Mr. Makiv transferred his thoroughbred stud from the Hill.- Crass country to Franco. The colt showed H quarter in lietter than twenty -four seconds, when ho was tried out last fall and lie has matured handsomely over wlater. The performance of tie so and other sons and daughters of Fitz Herbert engaged to appear at Howie will bo followed this spring with sympa -Miotic interest by Marylauders. who remember gallant Fit;: Herberts victory over Superstition in the Howie Cup at Iimlico in 1109. Some of the breeding sharps bald that Fitz Herbert will not mile-good at the stud. Hut many of the raeing experts aha nw biai run at Washington as a two-year-old in 1908 did not figure that he would make much of a race horse. A. J. Jeyner. his traiaer was one of those. loyaer sold him for |4,5M ami it was under the silks of Samuel Hildreth that ho did his groat racing as a three and four-year-old. Hut Fitz Herbert*! Maryland admirers will have to bo shown. Believing that a great race horse is apt to git something like himself if he has a half banco, these Marylualers are not going to pass Fitz Herbert up until he has failed. The ether youngster Hyor will bring to Howie for the aUraaol st:.b!e is of the family of Domino. Hamburg. Yankee and a score of other Ameriean flyers. For Oaartaaaae, its dam. was a daughter of Meddler — Correction. This one is a well set up brown filly and there was something suggestive of Oorrectioa in the speed she showed in her yearling trials. She will be ready early.
