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1CLELLANDS WINTER PLAN . Will Race Xalapa-Lexington Stable Horses at New Orleans. Then the Establishment Will Be Sent to Tijuana So That Hon Ho mine anil Missionary Can Fill Stake Engagements. BALTIMORE, Md., December 14. The great barn of the Lexington and Xalapa Stables at the Havre de Grace race course, one of the most comfortable and commodious in Maryland, which sheltered last winter the Derby hopes Lucky Hour, Missionary, My Play, Runstar and Southern Cross, will be empty through the winter from now on. Edward F. Simms and his racing partner, Henry Oliver of Pittsburgh, will "winter" no horses anywhere this year. James W. McClelland, their general manager, on his return from Kentucky, where he took the three-year-olds Lucky Hour and Southern Cross immediately after the finish of the Bowie fall meeting, is making plans for an immediate trek southward with Bon Homme, Missionary, Princess dOuilly and several other thoroughbreds of less note. McClelland will be accompanied by Roy Waldron, who was his assistant in the management of the Lexington-Xalapa Stable this year and made out well, and jockey Andrew Snhuttinger. In announcing his plans for the winter McClelland declared that Tijuana was his ultimate objective. BON HOMME IN COFFROTH HANDICAP. "I will," he said, "race Bon Homme, Missionary and Princess dOuilly at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans, through January and part of February and then take them to Tijuana. I have entered Bon Homme and Missionary in the Coffroth Handicap and Tijuana Cup and will bring them to the post if the thing be possible. Just now it looks as though they cannot miss those races. In advertising for decision at a winter course a handicap of one mile and a quarter for three-year-olds and over with an added money value of 30,000 and a cup race of ,000, James W. Coffroth has revealed more enterprise than any other manager or a winter race meeting of my time. "Such enterprise deserves the active support of horsemen of all classes and all parts of the country. That is why I have entered Bon Homme and Missionary in the Coffroth Handicap and the Tijuana Cup. I would have entered Lucky Hour and Southern Cross and would be taking them along if their condition at the end of the Bowie meeting had warranted the suspicion that a winter campaign would be good for them. LUCKY HOUR TIIAINS OFF. "Lucky Hour, which had hard races In the Potomac, Edgemere, Washington, Pim-lico Autumn, Southern Maryland and Thanksgiving Handicaps and the Latonia Championship after he struck a winning gait at Belmont Park in September obviously was stalling. He needed rest. Southern Cross, which had laid up since September, was not as right as to his underpinning as he might have been. Lucky Hour and Southern Cross will rusticate at Mr. Simms Xalapa Farm with My Play until spring. They will have plenty of rest ond outdoor play, with no pampering. Next spring they will be taken up as soon as their condition justifies the belief that they will train. "The patrons of Tijuana racing will find that I have brought pretty good horses to the coast in Bon Homme and Missionary. Everybody in the East knows that Bon Homme is just under the first flight when he is right. Missionary has not had a fair chance yet to show his stuff. He is a whimsical horse and hard to manage. He was just coming to himself when the Bowie meeting finished." Bon Homme, which just now looks like the most formidable horse McClelland and Waldron will train for the Coffroth Handicap and Tijuana Cup, is a son of Sweep and Sue Smith. He is a four-year-old own brother of Suweep and The Almoner and a three parts brother of Meridians sire, Brocm- Continued on twelfth page. j j 1 , , MCLELLANDS WINTER PLAN Continued from first page. stick, and his sire. Sweep, both being sons of Ben Brush. Bon Homme is one of Bowie racings own products. He was the champion two-year-old of the Bowie meeting of 1920. On the form he showed at the southern Maryland course in the autumn he became one of the winter favorites for the Kentucky Derby renewal of 1921. He did not train satisfactorily in the spring of 1921, but came to himself handsomely in the autumn and won the Pimlico Autumn Handicap. He was a formidable handicap horse at Aqueduct and Yonkers last July and in the Saratoga Handicap had Grey Lag, the crack four-year-old, racing his best to beat him half a length at one mile and a quarter. He trained off in early August, but came to 1 himself again in November and won two races brilliantly at Bowie. Bon Homme is up to weight of any kind and good in going of any sort No distance daunts him. Missionary, a son of Hourless and Mission, is one of the yearlings of 1920 Edward F. Simms acquired when he took the entire crop of August Belmonts Nursery Stud. Lucky Hour was another of that group. ?.Iissionary is a beautifully bred colt from a Rock Sand mare, as are Mad Hatter and Man o War. He won the Manor Plandicap, Laurel Parks mile race for two-year-olds of the first class in the autumn of 1921, and was successful last spring at Havre de Grace and last September at Aqueduct. Long-distance running should be his game. Hourless defeated Omar Khayyam at one mile and a quarter in the 0,000 John R. McLean Memorial Cup of 1917 after he had won the Belmont Stakes and run Omar to a head in the Lawrence Realization, the Belmont and Lawrence Realization being three-year-old races of one mile and three-eighths and one mile and five-eighths respectively. Mission won a renewal of the Bowie Cup when the distance of that race was two miles. Missionary had a brilliant half brother racing at Saratoga last summer in Messenger, a son of Fair Play. After Messengers victory in the Grab Bag Handicap renewal Harry Payne Whitney offered August Belmont 00,000 for him. The offer was turned down. 1
