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TREMENDOUS CROWD JOURNEYS TO BOWIE For First Saturday of the Maryland Spring Racing Season • ■ Arcady Carries the H. P. Whitney Silks to Victory in the Capitol Handicap, Atoning for Noahs Defeat in the Springtime Handicap ♦ BOWIE, Md., April 4. — Conditions were ideal for the first Saturday of the Maryland racing season and there was a tremendous crowd out at Bowie to cheer the thoroughbreds. The program that had been prepared was an excellent one, with four of the seven races worthy of the feature position. The Capitol Handicap of seven-eighths, for three-year-olds, was the most important offering and brought a H. P. Whitney victory when Arcady was first home ahead of J. F. Richardsons maiden colt Bruns, with S. Mosts Balboa the one to save third. This victory in a measure atoned for the defeat of Noah, the Whitney hope in the Spring Time Handicap. Seven started in the Capitol and it was a horse race all the way, with Arcady the one to hold command at all stages, though at the end he was ridden out. Sandhurst, a stable-mate to Arcady, raced close after the winner until well into the stretch and it seemed that he was ready to carry on should the leader tire. Hoot Mon and Cloudland raced forwardly until both tired of the pace that was set by the winner and when they retired in the stretch Bruns came from far back to be second and Balboa also finished resolutely. Through the final eighth, when Stutts realized that Arcady had his rivals safe, he did not persevere with Sandhurst, the stable-mate, and as a result he finished farther back than probably would have been the case with any other in the field showing the way. Arcady is a three-year-old son of Peter Pan and Querca, by Broomstick, and he was only raced three times as a two-year-old, finishing second to his stablemate Reminder the first time out and his second start was a victory in the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont Park. His other start was in the United States Hotel Stakes, that went to Sunny Man. There was something of a surprise in the running of the five and a half furlongs of the Springtime Handicap when J. F. Richardsons Tester was winner from the Greentree Stables The Vintner and Dazzler, another from the same stable, saved third from Comixa. with Noah lapped on the McLean mare. NOAHS DEFEAT A SUKPKISK. The surprise was in the defeat of Noah, for his other appearance made him appear best of the company he was meeting. He had just a bit of an excuse when he was bumped in the stretch, but at the time he was hanging out distress signals and he would probably have been beaten without the • bumping. There was a long delay at the barrier, for which Comixa was chiefly to blame. The start was a good one and Noah at once went into the lead, but Tester was right after him and the pair of them were soon four lengths before the others and The Vintner was racing third, while Dazzler was just a bit slow to be under way. Comixa steadily worked her way up until in the stretch she was lapped on Noah, but Tester was still right after him and. swinging into the straight, Meyers saved ground with him. Noah bore out a bit when the pinch fame and when he swerved in again he bumped The Vintner, but in the meantime Tester had found his way through on the inside; and, finishing with a rush, was two lengths clear at the end. The Vintner was an easy second and Dazzler, coming resolutely at the end, just nosed out Comixa for the short end of the purse. The race suggested that Noah after all is not the sprinter his first race of the meeting suggested for he showed a lack of courage when the pinch came at the end. LADY BOSS MAKES GOOD. Lady Boss made good in the opening three-quarters dash when, after forcing all the pace, she led home Jacques, with Neptune finishing a good third ahead of Care Free. No time was lost at the barrier and Lady Boss quickly assumed command, with Poor Sport and Admirer chasing after her and the others following in fairly close order, while Care Freen brought up the rear. Harvey nursed Lady Boss along in her lead with the result that she was able to make every post a winning one and still have j three lengths to spare at the end. Jacques closed some ground to take second place and Neptune also was going well at the end. Care Free closed a big gap and Poor Sport quit badly after he had met with some interference. | It was rather a nice lot of juveniles that ! went to the post in the half mile of the | Valiant Purse, and it brought victory to the III. I*. Whitney silks when Dedans, the son of Peter Pan and Dendera, led home the I Greentree Stables Irresistible with Youare. j | another Whitney starter, in third place! I ! Little Blaze was first to show from the j start but Irresistible worked his way to the ! ; front, closely lapped by Endor. He drew into two lengths before the others while l Continued on twelfth ?afe. , ; BOWIES BIG CROWD Continued from first page. Youare was racing third and Dedans was following his stablemate. There was little change in these positions until inside the final eighth where Dedans moved up with a rush on the outside and coming on straight and true he was two lengths to the good at the end. Youare also finished with excellent courage when he was just a head back of Irresistible and in a few more strides he would have taken second place. The others were strung out with Freda D. last of them all. There was a disgraceful reversal of form came out of the running of the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth race when R. Bentons Vexation was an easy winner over G. Winfreys Blue Hill and S. W. Grants Prince Tii Tii, with four others following behind. In his previous race he was soundly beaten by Friday 13th. Blue Hill and Prince Tii Tii. Today he dashed to the front in the first eighth and he made an absolute joke of the race, going into a long lead and just galloping in front of his company all the way. Blue Hill and Prince Tii Tii closed some ground in the last quarter but there was never a time that either threatened the winner though both had beaten him easily before in a mile and seventy yards race while this was over the mile and a sixteenth distance. Dr. OMara was winner of the mile and seventy yards of the Parkway Purse when he led Mrs. A. Swenkes Red Wingfield home by half a dozen lengths, with F. M. Kelleys The Poet three lengths further away and just a length before Charles Thieriots Prince James. The only other starters were The Roll Gall and Yankee Princess and they finished as named. Yankee Princess was first to show at the rise of the barrier but The Poet was rushed around the first turn until he was showing the way when the back stretch was reached. Dr. OMara was two lengths back of him and leading Yankee Princess by a length, while%Red Wingfield ran in fourth place. Prince James was particularly sluggish and raced along last of the company. There was little change in these running positions until nearing the strt-tch turn where Dr. OMara finally wore down The Poet and took command. At the same time Red Wingfield moved up ai:d while he had no chance to catch the Farrell colt he readily disposed of The Poet. The r«»ce run by Prince James was a real dis-j appointment and while he closed some ground his was a sluggish performance.
