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WHITNEY STABLE TO BOWIE Trainer Rowe Preparing Gadfly and Transom for Features at Prince George Park. Harry Payne Whitneys . Eowie string, which will be under the management of young James Rowe, will include the three-year-old fillies Gadfly, Fly by Day and Transom, the two-year-olds Dazzler, Transmute, Gonfalon, Miss Whisk, Husky, Nemesis and Memento. The elder Rowe, who is director of the Whitney breeding enterprises as well as head trainer of the racing stable, will be busy this month at the Brookdale farm trying out the yearlings that will race next season as two-year-olds. The elder Rowe has developed a useful assistant in his son. Gadfly and Transom are to be made ready for tho Prince George and Thanksgiving handicaps, dashes of one mile and an eighth and one mile and three-sixteenths, the former for three-year-olds exclusively, the latter for three-year-olds and over. The Prince George Handicap will have an added money value of ,500, the Thanksgiving 0,000. BOWES OPINION OF GADFLY. Gadfly, which defeated Untidy and Sallys Alley at Pimlico last spring in the Oaks, has always been thought by Rowe to be as good as the best three-year-old filly of the year even if Untidy did turn the tables on her at Louisville in the Kentucky Oaks. Gadfly is a daughter of Chicle and Gadiola, she a daughter of Cylgad and Mineola. She is, accordingly, of the family of Tryster, Johren, Liberty Loan and Burgomaster. No wonder she stays well. Under reasonably light weight she will be hard to lick in the Thanksgiving Handicap. She had Homestretch as straight as a hoe handle to beat her a length in the Pimlico Autumn Handicap. Out of sorts through the summer, Gadfly probably is better now than she was when the Pimlico meeting began. Transmute and Gonfalon will be the Whitney starters unless the stables plans miscarry, in the ,500 Endurance Handicap, a dash of one mile for two-year-olds exclusively. Transmute made a fine showing in the Maryland Futurity revival.
