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LEWIS GARTH TO RACE AT BOWIE; Will Have Stable of Fifteen Horses Ready for Opening of Maryland Season. WASHINGTON. D. C. March 7? Lewis Garth has brought up from Virginia a miscellaneously owned string of flat runners and-steeplechasers of various ages", and it is his intention to have the flat runners ready for the call to duty the opening day at Bowie which will Ih April I and the chasers on the job the first cross-country day at Havre de Grace. There nre-six two-year-olds and nine runners of mature years in thp Garth stable at .Benniug. They came this way.rronw.theJnEth -farm; --wriich ls iir Albemarle . .County." -Virginia; ready to begin brisk work, and they have hot missed a day of the ten they have been at Benning. In a colony of unusually forward horses: they are as forward as the most advanced. The two-year-olds, of the string belong to Captain Ral Parr and J. S. Cosden of Baltimore. The younger Garth brought these youugsters to Benning to give them a special preparation for Bowie and Havre de Grace racing, while his father, William Garth, is busy at Pimllco preparing the big end of the establishment for the Maryland Jockey Clubs two and a half weeks of racing in May. Two of the most precocious of. these Parr two-year-olds are home-bred youngsters, a son and a daughter ofTheo. Cook, a young Ben Brush stallion which jumped into the linieliglit last summer by sending Esquimau, Agnes Cook and one or two other winners to the races. The colt, which is called Smart Guy. probably will be the Parr stables first winner at Bowie. This youngster is a well set up bay, a much .bigger two-year-old than Esquimau was u year back, dam Cannie Miss, she a half-sister of Republican. Smart Guy is as quick as a cat on his feet, and it is play for him to work a quarter in twenty-four seconds. The filly is called Fanny Cook, and she is named for the mistress of the Garth kitchen, a lady of the brunette type, whose first nnine is Fanny. She can run also, or .she would not have been named for the Garth cook. Fanny Cooks dam was Schnapps, and she was a fast daughter of Burgomaster Irish Reel. Benning trainers think highly of a gelding by Wrack Aurine, a half-brother of Billie Hibbs, Pater and Poor Butterfly. This youngster is a good chunk of a horse. He is unnamed. History, a black gelding, by Ogden Traditional, hence a close relative of Eternal, . looks like, a youngster that might mature early. A Vnngy colt by Ormon-dale Witful, and a half-brother of Wistful, may take more time, but he will arrive. This one is called The Wit. And there is a trim bay gelding bred at Thomas Fortune Ryans Oakwood Stud, which is in Nelson County, Virginia, by Sea King May Florence, and a descendant of Firenze. Of the old. horses Robert Oliver, Rhomb and Smithfield are jumpers, and they will bear the silks of young Garth and Woods" Stockton. Smithfield, a Canadian-bred son of Havoc, showed a good performance at Pimlico last fall in the Manly Memorial, He finished fourth. All that he seems to require is a bit of steadying. He was rather unruly last year. If Smithfield trains and schools satisfactorily at Havre de Grace young Garth will get him ready for the Green Spring Valley Steeplechase at Pimllco. Bravado, Dr. Rue and Nebraska will race with Smithfield under the silks of Mr. Stockton. Virginia Yell., a winner at a long price on the last day of the Bowie meeting of 1918, belongs to J. P. Jones, Coral to Captain Parr and Goblin to William Garth. Lewis Garth is going to try his best to make a good fencer of Goblin, which took several chances in the field last year and did not do badly.
