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TRAINING AT BOWIE TRACK 4 Dunboyne and Donaghee Leading Members of Winter Colony. Trainer Smith Expects Rean Thrcc-year-old to Cut Considerable Figure In This Years Big Stake. BALTIMORE, Md., March 10. Dunboyne and Donaghee are the most widely known members of the thoroughbred .colony now at Prince George Park, Bowie. This colony numbered 125 through December, January and February, and was the biggest winter colony of Bowie history. It is being reinforced steadily from the South, and its most precocious members are already training hard for the spring racing of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association that will take up the first fortnight of April and be marked by the decision of three ,000 stake races, while the overnight handicaps and purses will be of substantial value. The Prince George Park meeting will usher in the American season of major racing for 1921. Dcnaghee is Bowies most formidable Kentucky Derby prospect. Training satisfactorily now he will, unless he has bad luck, be a factor in the impending racing at Bowie. Dunboyne may cut some figure in Bowie .spring racing, but his chance, probably, is not so good. Donaghee is a good three-year-old that was not overrated last year. Dunboyne, conqueror of Purchase and Sir Barton in the Belmont Park Futurity of 191S, is eight years old. He has had several flings and been brilliant at times, but he has suffered several breakdowns. BEAN AND SMITH OPTIMISTIC. If Donaghee, New York-bred son of The Curragh and Mabel Straus, does not prove a factor in the big three-year-old racing of Kentucky and Canada in May, June and July, as well as in the sport of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association at Bowie in April, James W. Bean, of Washington, and his trainer, J. P. Smith will be sorely disappointed. Donaghee is a gelding now and more kindly and tractable than he was last year. Last year he showed repeatedly in private that he could do things he failed to do under silks because of his pugnacious disposition. A desire to kick at other horses whenever opportunity offers often hampers the racing of robust two-year-old stallions. Donaghee never found himself in a crowd last year that he did not begin to bite and kick. A retrospect of Donaghees racing at Bowie last November supports the Bean and Smith contention that he is a horse of considerable promise. In the ,500 Endurance Handicap Continued on twelfth page. TRAINING AT BOWIE TRACK Continued from first page. at one mile, for two-year-olds of the first j class, Donaghee finished third to Tree Top and Ttinkey, beaten only about a length and a half for all the money. He was all j over the track under the inefficient riding of young Rose. Nevertheless he beat Braca-dale, Pepp, Leopardess. Tester and Maxie. He had previously finished third to Sarko and Tester in a dash of three-quarters, beating H. T. Waters, Miss Whisk, Klondyke, Exploit and Miss Marcella. It looks as if Donaghee will go on any dis-tho 0,000 Preakness and the 0,000 Belmont stakes, the Easts richest spring specials for three-year-olds. He can run in both the Golden Jubilee Derby at Louisville, which has an added value of 0,000, and the Latonia Derby at Covington. Smith is, accordingly pointing for the Kentucky Derby revival. It looks as if Donaghee will go on any distance under weight. He was a long way back at the beginning of the stretch runs in his Bowie races of last November because in the first half of each he was busy trying to savage opponents. Whether Dunboync can be brought back to racing usefulness is, of course, problematical. The old Celt gelding did not race last year. He has not been under silks since a breakdown of a year ago last summer immediately after he had shown winning sprinting form. He is in the hands of Jack Richardson, of Texas, who is a past master of the art of making decrepit thoroughbreds forget their leg troubles and race like fresh colts. Richardsons work last year with Top Sergeant and Curtis was a fair sample of his ability in that line. Samuel C. Hildredth, Dunboynes owner, sent the aged son of Celt to Richardson in December because of the Texans success with Curtis, a half-brother of Billy Kelly, which Hildreth had developed and discarded after the horse appeared to have broken down hopelessly. Hildreth probably will send several horses to- Rich-! ardson from Rancocas farm in the course of the season. 4
