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J. E. GRIFFITHS STABLE Jeg and Frank Furst Expected to Carry Owners Colors at Bowie. Both Arc Training Soundly After Long Rests St. Valentino Going Along More Slowly In Work. BALTIMORE, Md., March 24. J. Edwin Griffith, one of Marylands leading breeders of thoroughbreds and a member of the last Baltimore County Racing Commission, should win some races at Bowie in the course of. the spring meeting that is to begin April 1. The veterans Jeg and Frank Furst, the former a son of Zeus, the latter a son of Dick Finnell, are going particularly well in work, and Harry Rites has four home-bred two-year-olds nearly ready for the colors. The two-year-olds were raised at Mr. Griffiths farm in Baltimore County, near Mount Washington. Jeg has not raced- since the spring of 1922, Frank Furst not since the . summer of 1921. Jeg, a singularly good-looking horse, has been troubled by bad feet and Frank Furst has had leg trouble. Neither has taken a lame step since Rites brought them to Bowie from the Mount Washington farm. Both are going halves in 52 and 53 and could go faster if their trainers desired. Jeg, which finished third to Broomspun and Polly Ann in the Preakness of 1921, and won a couple of races after that, is an Inaugural and Prince George Handicap prospect. Frank Furst probably will not shoot so high. There are, however, possibilities in him. Mr. Griffith and Rites thought well of him in his two-year-old season. The four-year-old St. Valentine, a son of Theo. Cook and Katriona, by Woolsthorpe, is exercising briskly, but does not seem to be as near lacing form as either Jeg or Frank Furst. St. Valentine failed to do as much as was expected last year, but was a fairly good two-year-old. The contender in a race at Belmont Park that was won by the high-priced Newmarket, he defeated Martingale, Miss Smith, Sunference and Sirflsini, horses that have since distinguished themselves. He had previously won a couple of races at Pimlico, defeating Wrangle in both. His first triumph was in a renewal of the Spring Juvenile Stakes.
