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HUSTLE AND BUSTLE AT OLD PIMLICO. Many Metropolitan Stables Will Take Part in Maryland Jockey Club Meeting Starting Today. By J. R. JefTery. Baltimore. Mil., April 30. — All is hustle ami bustle at Pimlico, where the spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club will open tomorrow, under conditions that appear more promising than at any time in the leng and honorable history of this famous old racing organization. The past few days have brought the arrival of numerous important stables from plater quarters and there seems to be good ground for the prediction that Iimlico is to be the scene of the finest racing. from the standpoint of the quality of the horses engaged, ever served up to patrons of the sport in Maryland in the spring season. Many of the Important metropolitan stables are represented : t the track and will begin their campaign of 1917 there. Ill" outlook is for uniformly large fields in all divisions of the racing, but the contestants will l.e of more satisfactory quality than those area in action at Bowie and Havre de Grace. At the latter track, especially, the larce fields of medio, ro horses that have figured so frequently on the programs at sprinting distances, have been anything but coadacbre to forasfal racing and it will be a welcome relief to racegoers when the quality of the horses in the daily action shows an improvement. The Pimlico course, which was transformed into an up-to-date racing plant last year by the judicious expenditure of a large sum of money, presents a pleasing appearance to the eye just now in its new garb of ; pring greenery. It is indeed an attractive home that the Maryland Jo key Club no v possesses and on" that is in thoroagh keeping with the traditions of this fine, old organization, which has b on supported since Colonial days by nsea prominent in the state and nation. George Washington Tatron of Club. Among the early patrons of the Maryland Jockey Clubs meetings was George Washington, who took keea delight in driving from Mt. Perana to Annapolis, where the first races were held in 1748. In Ma diary the "father of his country." makes mention of these visits. Another famous member of the Maryland Jockey Club in the old days was President Andrew Jackson, his lonnectiou with the organization dating from 1881, as shown by an natogranh letter, a copy of which adorns the walls ol Bacing Secretary Biggs office at Pimlho, ami in which he declared that he had always "taken an interest In aaaoctatfaaa calculate] to improve the breed of the American horse, and appreciated the efforts which the Maryland Jockey Club was ,|. -voting to that liid." Marybtnders prominently Identified with the political, social and business life of the stale who hive lent their a dive aid to the organization include Governor John lee Carroll. Governor Saiiiui 1 Ugle, Governor Bharpe, Governor Robert Eden. Governor Odea Bowie. Chailes Carroll of Carrollton. last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, Col. Benjamin Tanker, of Prince Georges County. Cd. John Eager Howard. Col. Ivlward l.lojd. Charles Bidgety, ami many others whose names fiuuie largely in the htetery of the state and wboae de ace adnata are now carrying on the sport with the same laudable aims ntid on the same high plane that has characterized the Maryland Jockey Club from its inception ill Colonial days. In view of these conditions it is n..t to be wondered at that the race meetings of the club arc invariaMy looked forward p. as notable events in tin- social calendar of this locafity and participated in on that basis by the very lxst element of this fine old community. Btaarl Folk broaght the useful plater Fanes iast from Tijuana for E. G. Sonic and has heea training him since his arrival at Havre do Grace, but will shortly turn him over to T. J. Shannon, who already has in charge the filly BteUarina, which .Mr. Soule purchased recently. The Boale stable will be meed over the New Voile tracks al Die done of the Maryland s..;;soM. whih the Polk string will Im- shipped to Windsor for the opening ..f the Canadian racing season at ReaUworth Park. May 12. Bri? of War Highly Esteemed. The filly Brig of War, by Bridge of Allan W; t Las-, which finished second in one of the two real ■ ■hi races at Havn de Grace Taeeday, is higbly . stecmed by good edges among the horsemen. She is a fun. -lookiig filly, with a high turn of speed, and wite better lack at tie start, sh-might here finished first instead of second, even though pittid against ;,s goad a filly as Mis.-. Burgomaster, one of the Javeatte stars of the Tyree siring, baa shown hcrseH to be. B.e.i Tramp, the two year-oM brown cett h. Von Tr p Honaetta, arhieh ran third to Piedra and Jim Hefferiag at Havre lie Grace Thnraday, on the occasion of his initial start, is a fine-lool.-ing youngster of stnrdy .information and racj appearance. He is the property of Edward Cebriaa • .f Haa Praaciacn, uho his embarked in breeding on an extensive s-ale at San .bee. al. Trainei Al Fan-oil. who i- handling tie- Cebrian horses. considers him to be tie- best of the promising band of juveniles that he brought east. Before leaving Tijuana, where the rhriaa becnea spent a good part of tin winter, this colt arorked a quarter in 12... ami gooii judges have picked him as being fir abei • the ordinary. Borne of the less aretentioaa of the stables Fiat have been participating in the racing at Havre de Grace, arill not he seen in action at Pimlico, be nil! be shipped to Canada for the Devonshire Pari meeting, where the competition will he less keen. it is expected.
