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CARMAN STABLE AT BOWIE Excuse Me Is Star of String to Be Campaigned During Meeting To Sell Stallions. BALTIMORE, Md., March 16. The star of the stable of Richard F. Carman, developer of Meridian, the Kentucky Derby winner of 1911, is the Maryland-bred colt Excuse Me. The latter was bred at Mr. Carmans Car-mandale farm in Montgomery County, just outside Washington, where Carmandale and Louise V. also were raised. He is one of a string of five at Bowie, where the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations spring meeting will begin April 1 to continue for twelve days. The others are Sextant, a three-year-old brother of Excuse Me, a two-year-old sister of Carmandale, a two-year-old filly by Meridian from Azyiade and a two-year-old colt by Meridian from Gaiety. The Carman horses are pretty well along toward racing condition and are getting plenty of work every day. If the going is heavy April 1 Excuse Me will bear the blue and white in the ,000 Inaugural Handicap, a dash of seven-eighths, that will bring some of the best of Maryland spring racing to the post. Sextant is a maiden that showed speed a time or two last spring and summer under the silks of E. B. McLean. Car-mandales two-year-old sister, a husky type, appears to be the best of the two-year-olds. She has shown a quarter in 26 seconds since her arrival from the farm and has not yet been permitted to do her best. The Carman breeding establishment will be a memory. Fire destroyed all but three or four of its mares last fall and Mr. Carman has sold the stallions Meridian and The Turk. He will sell Azyiade and Gaiety, the only mares remaining to him this year. His son, Richard F. Carman, Jr., has forsaken racing for the automobile business.
