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HOLD REPARATION HIGHLY : J. E. Davis Representative Reported in Tip-Top Condition. Looms Up as Formidable Candidate for Inaugural Handicap at Bowie E. B. McLeans Eligibles. - BALTIMORE, Md., March 23. A new and formidable bidder for the ,000 Inaugural Handicap, which will be the reward of the winner of the feature of the opening days spring racing of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association at Bowie next Tuesday, has developed at Washington in Joseph E. Davis Beparation. This Virginian-bred son of Trojan and Humility, the best horse, perhaps, Temple Gwathmey bred during the years he operated the Canterbury Stud of Fauquier and Culpeper counties, has been training under the eye of Matt Brady over the Benning course since March 1, and training well. He is as far advanced toward racing condition, indeed, as is George Wing-fields Gentral Thatcher, Bennings favorite for the Prince Georges opening special. Twice last week he galloped three-quarters of a mile in better than 1 :18 over the Benning course, one of the slowest in the country. Benning track is slower than Bowie track because there is no fast backstretch such as the Bowie course boasts. General Thatcher is apparently a natural Bowie horse, but inspection of the form of the last two years racing will show that he is no better at the Southern Maryland track than Beparation. Beparation was all but unbeatable at Bowie a year ago last fall. Three of the six victories credited to him last year were scored at Bowie, two of them in the Autumn. In the Southern Maryland Handicap, November 24, a 0,000 race of one mile for horses of all ages, he defeated Flint Stone, Exodus, Time Exposure, King Solomons Seal, Flagstaff, Stanwix, Fair Gain, Hephaistos, General Thatcher, Dunlin and Avisack. Reparation can go any distance and is good in going of any sort. But if Brady were asked the route over which he preferred to start the Trojan horse he would say seven-eighths. There is a Madrigallian two-year-old in the Davis string that has gone a quarter in a shade better than 23 seconds over the Benning course, but he is not for spring racing. Brady will save, him for Saratoga. Prodigious, a good mare, training more satisfactorily this year than she did last, will be Reparations racing companion at Bowie. There are three prospective Inaugural Continued on eighth, page. HOLD REPARATION HIGHLY Continued from first page. Handicap starters in the stable of Edward Beale McLean of Washington. John F. Schorr has been readying up at the old Ben-ning race course for the Bowie meeting. These are Comixa, Gold Bug and Modest. Noel, brother to Escoba, the other nearly fit seasoned campaigner of the McLean outfit, does not class up. Schorr will be content if he accounts for a claiming purse in the course of the Bowie meeting. Comixa, a daughter of Colin and The Minx, she a French-bred daughter of Irish Lad, won five races last year. She was always campaigning in the swiftest company. She is good at Bowie and seven-eighths is one of Iter favorite distances. Gold Bus, a son pi All Gold and Golden Rod, a purchase of last year from the H. P. Whitney stable, is the McLean candidate for the impending Golden Jubilee Derby of the Kentucky Jockey Club. He is a powerfully set up colt, not the quickest beginner ever, but fast nevertheless, and commendably determined. Robert I. Miller believes he has a couple of good three-year-old prospects at Bowie in Spartan and Roland, colts he bought last summer at Saratoga from the Rancocas stable, and lie will have them ready the lirst week of the impending spring meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. Neither won last year, although Spartan started ten times and Roland six. They were among the Rancocas two-year-olds that fell sick with influenza in the early spring and were comparatively green for want of early racing when Miller bought them late in August. Spartan is a son of Dick Finnell and High Degree and a near relative on the distaff side of Midway, Tree Top and Buckhorn. Thirty-third, dam of Midway, Tree Top and Buckhorn, is a daughter of Sir . Dixon and High Degree. Roland is a son of Sweep and Tapiola, she a daughter of The Commoner and the dam of Mulciber and Rose Brigade. Roland carries a heavy stream of the blood of Hindoo. Grandsire of The Commoner, Hindoo was also the sire of Catalpa, the mother of Tapiola. Both colts have grown considerably over winter and both, are training well.
