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j Here and There on the Turf Leaders in Steeplechasing. Marylands Racing Finale. : Marlboro May Be Mile Track. , l With the steeplechase season over for 1922 1 the Greentrce Stable proves to have been the most successful, with total earnings of 5,365 in cross-country racing. C. K. Harrison Jr., finished a good second with a total of 2,211. The best individual money-winner was the Greentree Stables Soumangha. Three vie- . tories and a second brought her earnings to 3,045. This mare is a seven-year-old and is the mother of two horses of racing age. Putting her back in training has been eminently successful. She is the daughter of the Belmont-bred Don de Oro and Sunrise, by The Bard. The second best money winner was Mr. Harrisons Sea Tale, a six-year-old daughter of Sea King Anecdote, by Tom Ochiltree, and she was not far behind the other old mare when with three firsts, a second and a third her total reached 1,280. Damask, the well-named five-year-old son of All Gold and Crinoline II., by Broomstick, was the second best for the Greentree Stable-, when his solitary victory in the 0,000 Manly Memorial at Pimlico and a third brought a total of ,350. . But the old gelding Courteous, which a few years back was performing in the army officers races, earned more for Mr. Harrison when 1 he accounted for ,130 of the stables total. . Baronet and Overmatch were two others of the Harrison string that earned in excess of E ,000. For the Greentree Stable, besides Soumangha - and Damask, the winners of more than ,000 were Roi Craig and Mohican. . There were twelve horses contributing to the 2 Greentree Stable earnings and twenty figured i in the Harrison winnings. The Greentree Stable - won a total of nineteen races, was twelve s times "second and seven times third, while 3 the Harrison record was twenty firsts, ten seconds - and sixteen thirds. Mohican was the e winner of the greatest number of races with five times first and six times second. This is an interesting showing for the two leading steeplechase stables of the year and it speaks well for New York steeplechasing, when it is remembered that the Greentree Stable earned its money over the Long Island courses and those of Maryland. Mr. Harrison gathered considerable of his stake and purse money in racing over the Canadian courses. He campaigned a bigger string and he won a greater number of races, but those that fell to the popular Greentree silks were of greater value. Steeplechasing has a real part in the general scheme of the turf and there has been a decided improvement in this branch over the racing of 1921. Further improvement is promised for 1923 and this picturesque end of the sport is in a fair way to come back to greater importance than it has enjoyed in " many a year. Just eleven more days of racing remain before the eastern season comes to an end. The initial meeting at Dade Park closed Saturday and it was, apparently, a meeting that must have been surprisingly successful to its promoters. Marlboro has filled in most entertainingly between the close of the Maryland j : l 1 . . 1 . E - . 2 i - s 3 - e Jockey Club meeting at Pimlico and the opening at Bowie. These closing days of the great sport eclipse anything ever offered before in Maryland at this season of the year. In the old days of the Washington Jockey Club, when the track at Benning flourished, there were good horses continued in training to take part, but in its best days there were few such horses as those now stabled at Bowie. The program for the opening day was one that would have been a credit to Saratoga in mid-August. And it is there that the best from the West meet the best from the East and the best from Canada. Bowie has attracted the best from the West in the powerful string brought on by Mont-fort Jones and there are many of the best of eastern racing still in training in the Xalapa Farm-Lexington Stable confederacy, while these are not the only representative horses there are to draw from. For the first time since the inauguration of Bowie racing the silks of August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, will be shown. George Odom has a string of the Belmont two-year-olds for racing at Bowie and he has also in the same string some of the Robert L. Gerry horses. Preston Burch has some of the best that have been shown under the silkr; of the Nevada Stock Farm and Thomas Hcaley will race some from the Walter J. Salmon and Richard T. Wilson establishments. James Fitzsimmons has the Quincy Stable string and one of the band, Captain Alcock, has given that stable tremendous importance in the closing days of the racing year. William Wallace has kept Frank J. Farrells Horologe in training for the meeting and Max Hirsch is still in the picture with the horses of J. B. Smith and George W. Loft. J. S. Cosdens string will race at Bowie, as well as the small but select stable of E. F. Cooney. Frank Browns Heph-aistos and many another stable that has figured in the best racing of the year have given Bowie new importance. It is just possible that before many more years the Marlboro track will be converted into a mile ellipse. The Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair Association owns a tract of 185 acres, where the little track is located now, and it would be a simple engineering feat to double the size of the track, or, in fact, make it any size desired. Plans were de- signed some time ago for this enlarging of the plant and they progressed to a stage of deciding on a site for the grandstand, the placing of the paddock and the general out-f line of the new track. No work was done, but the feasibility of the change was convinc- ing. Now that a tremendously successful meet-5 ing has just been completed, the matter of enlarging the track is again under considera- tion. It is nearly a sure thing that if the association was assured of the open dates that were had this year the change would follow. The plant was all too small for the patronage that was accorded and in another year better horses and larger crowds would be present.
