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INTEREST IN MILITARY PURSE RACE Special Event for Bowies Closing Day Attracting Attention Army Officers to Bide Baltimore Md November 23 The size of the fieltt in the Military Purse tin sjiecial race for military riders which will lx the feature of get ¬ away days card a week from today will be lim ¬ ited only by the number of officer riders Lieu ¬ tenantColonel J A Barry the adjutant of the llth Division which is stationed at Camp Meade brings to the track Racing Secretary Joseph McLennan has found that the horsemen racing at Bowie are enthusiastically for the military race Among the entries promised him so far are G W Dodges Dervish Frank A Herolds Master Key Nihbs Melos a winner on the flat and through the field this fall Samuel Kosss Bonnie Cause W C Kennedys Egmont and J A Murphys Jimmy Burns These are all big powerful horses and they are ready to run runColonel Colonel Barry has written from Camp Meade that he will have at least eight riders and it is pos ¬ sible that there may be three or four others from other military posts in this part of the country The announcement that this military race was to be run at Bowie track has aroused the keenest interest among military men generally and among those concerned in the business of keeping up the horse supply of the army particularly They are deter ¬ mined to make the race a success successOfficers Officers of the remount division of the army are anxious to demonstrate to the country that the department of war has put the seal of its approval on horse racing as f means cf maintaining thor ¬ oughbred production For one vital lesson of the great war to the remount senices of the American and other armies is that without thoroughbred blood in its cavalry artillery and transport horses no army can be efficient It is thoroughbred blood that makes the military hors ear up under hard ¬ ships and keep striving The life of the thorough ¬ bred under the grueling conditions of war inde ¬ pendent of cannon or gunshot wuinds js five times as long as is that of the coldblooded animal Military races in which officers of the army par ¬ ticipate always make profcunl impressions on the
