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BOWIES FINE OPENING " ♦ Vast Crowd Gathers to View Marylands New Racing. ♦ c Setting Sun Vindicates New Orleans Form in Winning the Inaugural Handicap. t ♦ ■ i BOWIE. Md., April 2— Setting Sun, the ; three-year-old son of Olambala and Sunburst, _ that races for H. K. Bryson, in a smashing . finish won the Inaugural Handicap at Bowie this afternoon. It was the feature of the new racing season in the East and the condition that comes with racing told when the r three-year-old that campaigned at New Or- t leans just nodded home in front of the Aud- | ley Farm Stables Fair Phantom and Harry , Payne Whitneys Broomster, two that were . making their drat appearance of the year. At the end the three were closely lapped, c with the result in doubt until the numbers 5 were hung up. t It was a brilliant opening cf the 1023 racing season and, after a couple of days of disi- f a agreeably cold weather, there was sunshine j and warmth to greet one cf the largest crowd that ever assembled on the couisa of the Southern Maryland Association track. Tht track was at its best and there was a de-lightful succession of races for the first day. It marked an auspicious beginning for Ireston M. Bureh and George W. Wingfields : Nevada Stock Farm when the stable colors took a double. This was scored when Lady Choco, a two-year-old daughter of Atheling IL. took the opening race and General Thatcher won his race from a band of three-year-olds. : FIELD OF TEX START. Of the nineteen that were named for the Inaugural Handicap ten went to the post and before they appeared on the track it was generally agreed that the result of the coij-tent was strictly between Broomster and Fair Phantom. There was little time lost at the post. From a good start Kummer at once went out to set the pace with Broomster, while Fair lhantom was outfooting the others. Through the backstretch the Whitney gelding easily held his lead and seemed to be racing with speed in reserve, but the filly j was right after him and well clear of the . Other*, although they were in fairly close order. Setting Sun was next to the rail and in rather close quarters. After rounding the far turn Fair Phantom drew up slightly on Broomster, but Kummer still had him under restraint and at the head of the stretch, where he swung out slightly, * he seemed to have the filly safe, but in the last eighth he began to tire and Kummer went to the whip. In the meantime Fair Phantom was closing up on him but doing b"r tone! best. Fair Phantom had Broomster a 1 short distance from the end. but she was a 1 tired filly and it was her last gasp. She had 1 given up her all to beat the gelding and in a 1 Hash it was Setting Sun that just dropped 1 his nose in front. In fact, the finish was so close that many in the stands thought the 8 filly was the winner and there was some surprise " when it was Setting Suns number that 1 was displayed. Preston Bureh began his campaing well for r George Wingfields Nevada Stock Farm J Stable when Lady ChSCO. a daughter of f Atheling II. anil Oiocolate Lady, won over a 1 good-looking band of maiden two-year-olds. * At the end she was doing her best to win by r a length from Hariy Payne Whitneys Ramshackle and the Kenton Stables Chief Archee was a close third. tJENEKAL THATCHER BEGINS WELL. ,. There ia a wide difference between the five e and a half furlongs of the Promenade Purse 0 and the mile and an eighth of the Preakness * Stakes at Pimlico, but the performance of ,f General Thatcher was of importance, for it 1 was tin; first showing of a prominent candidate " for the big race of the Maryland Jockey Club on Kay 12. It was not much of a contest for the son " of Sweep, bat was enough to deronstrate 9 that he is well advanced in his training and d that Preston If. Bureh has brought Mm back !; to the races after a winter at Benning one of the best-locking colts in training, lie was giving away considerable weight, but ll there was no stage of the race in wmeli the * result was in doubt, larke sent him away from the post quickly until he bad taken S a good lead and he was not hurried at any 7 other time In the race. There was ■ good finish in the fourth race * when Bygone Pays, under a gnod ride by Clarence Kummer, just lasted to beat IJrook-holt - and Coland was a close third. .1. A. Coburn claimed Jacobina from Mrs. T. II. Wilson for ,S0O. Mrs. T. H. Wilson claimed Grise.da out of f the sixth race for ,S00. .1. A. Cohorn took Sagamook for the same sum out of the same race. "hick" Lang and Clarence Kummer, the ; two J. S. Cosden jockeys, will do the riding j for H. P. Whitney at the Bowie meeting.
