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G. W. WINGFIELDS STABLE To Be Campaigned at Bowie Pilgrim and Knot Also to Race at Prince George Park. BALTIMORE, Md., November 10. The entire stable of George Wingfield of Reno, one of the leading thoroughbred producers of the far West, will race at Prince George Park, Bowie, through the November meeting of the. Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. The Bowie meeting will begin on November 18 and run through to the 30th. The getaway day feature will be the ?10,000 race of one mile and a quarter of the Tranksgiving Handicap. Preston M. Burch, who has had the Wing-field horses in charge all year, has nothing sufficiently mature for the Thanksgiving Handicap, but his string is strong in serviceable two-year-old material. General Thatcher, Ambler and Blue Hawk, which were sick in June after training brilliantly in Maryland earlier in the year, have come aiound again. General Thatcher, a strapping son of Sweep and Polistina, has become particularly formidable. He will train for the ,000 Endurance Stakes, Bowies race of one mile, for two-year-olds of both sexes. His only fault is his fractiousness at the barrier. Burch makes a fairly decent barrier horse of General Thatcher by putting Prank Keogh cn his back. Cordial relations have been established between Keogh and the headstrong General. The son of Sweep, which resents association with Parke, will do anything in reason for the veteran Keogh. Blue Hawk and Ambler, sons of the gigantic Atheling II., the stallion head of the Nevada Farm Stud, will go in the Endurance race with General Thatcher if they continue to train as satisfactorily as they have been. Other good two-year-olthi of the string are Humboldt and King Charming. Even Parke, the jockey of the Wingfield stable, has improved since Burch shipped from Long Island to Maryland. Parke, always a brisk lad at the barrier, has begun to ride with confidence after leaving the post, also to finish with energy. Burch is so much encouraged by the brace Parke has taken he is looking for a billet for him in some winter racing stable that has an enterprising trainer. He believes that if Parke is placed with some horseman going to New Orleans or Tijuana or Havana who will find plenty of good mounts for him the young man will come back East in the spring a finished jockey. Parke is well behaved and temperate. Selby Burch will send his five-year-old Garry Herrmann gelding Pilgrim to Bowie with the Wingfield horses. Pilgrim hasnt the best legs in the world. But he has practically everything else a race horse needs. If he were soundly underpinned he would be racing with handicap horses of high class, rather than with first-flight platers. He ought to race to his best form over the cushioned Bowie course. William P. Burch will send four or five campaigners of the strings of Samuel Rossj and Admiral Cary T. Grayson to Bowie with his son. They will include Knot and My Own. My Own did not come to racing until August and he has had little experience. But he was good enough at Laurel Park to finish second to Cherry Pie in the ,000 Manor Handicap and at Pimlico to bring up third to Sallys Alley and Martingale in the second division of the Pimlico Futurity. Like My Dear, My Own is a natural long distance runner. He will be Admiral Graysons starter in the Endurance race, and unless his opponents step spryly ho will about win.
