Ordinary Card At Bowie: Cheap Grade of Horses Given a Chance at Prince Georges Park.; Accident Mars Initial Dash, Three Horses Falling and Injuring Their Riders., Daily Racing Form, 1918-11-16

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ORDINARY CARD AT BOWIE Cheap Grade of Horses Given a Chance at Prince Georges Park Accident Mars Initial Dash Three ThreeHorses Horses Falling and Injuring InjuringTheir Their Riders Bowie Md November 15 A card composed of selling and claiming races but lacking in any particular feature was well appreciated by a gen ¬ erous attendance at Prince Georges Park on the second day of the Bowie meeting The first nice was marred by an accident While rounding the fur turn Marie Connell ridden by A Collins stumbled and fell while Doctor Davis which Q Preece rode and Sundnria with Johnson up blinded by the dust cloud which arose fell over her Preece suffered a broken collar bone Collins suffered i cut face and severe shaking up They were moved to a Washington hospital Johnson was able to resume riding later in the day The race was easily won by Belario after leading throughout throughoutPonltney Ponltney owned by H Hoffberger a Balti inorean scored an easy and popular victory in the second race Poultneys performance was a good one as he was crowded back right after the start and was forced to close a big gap to overtake the leaders After disposing of Lackawannu in th j stretch he drew away to win in a canter canterAfter After riding the winners of the first two Rices jockey Ensor was sharply criticized for his efforts oil Sunnyland in the mile dash run as the fourth race in which J F Sweeneys Zouave scored the easiest win of the day Blazeaway dayBlazeaway was lucky to annex the third race After the Carman representative had opened up a big lead on the last turn he suddenly tired and June Bug almost overtook him only a small marsh separating the two at the end endOverconfidence Overconfidence on the part of jockey Sneidman who had the mount on Zinnia in the fifth Rice nearly turned victory into defeat After Zinnia assumed the lead in the last sixteenth Sneidman eased her up in the final strides and Silver Sandals coming again after tiring in the stretch just failed to overhaul the winner winnerThe The most interesting contest of the afternoon was the sixth a mile and a sixteenth nice in which AVild Thyme Millraee and G M Miller finished necks apart with the result in doubt until the numbers were hung up by the judges judgesBabette Babette scored in the last race in which Silk Bird was considered Inst The latter was out gametl by Blue Thistle in the final strides for place honors honorsPuts Puts and Calls was claimed by G W Fonnan after his victory on Thursday for 1050 Those of S C Hildreths horses intended for Bowie racing will be shipped by motor van from Pimlico daily dailyD D Hammond shipped the stable of G Holmes including Fleeing Sheik Wat Glorine Smart Money and Clark M to Havana today


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