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BOWIE CARDORDINARY » Six of Seven Races at Maryland Course for Platers. * Euphrates Triumphs "in Midway Claiming Handicap; Vellas Second — Mally Jane Unplaced. BOWIE, Md., April 6— With six of the seven races under claiming conditions and the other bringing together maidens, there was a woeful lack of class in the sport offered at Bowie this afternoon. The weather was more like mid-August than early spring and the track was fast. The crowd was again a big one, even for Bowie, and the lack of class of the performers did not slow up the enthusiasm of the big gathering. Several of the races brought surprise winners, but that is to be expected when there is a lack of quality. One of the real surprises of the day came out of the running of the Midway Claiming Handicap, of a mile and a sixteenth, and the feature of the afternoon. It saw C. R. Fleischmanns greatly improved Euphrates the winner from H. G. Bedwells Vellas and H. S. Bowns The Freshman, while Mally Jane and Judge Fuller, the two that seemed the natural contenders for the purse, both further back. There was an earlier surprise when Ancient Mariner failed utterly in the maiden race. In the claiming handicap Vellas was the one to set most of the pace, with Judge Fuller and Signola going along after him and Mally Jane in fourth place. Judge Fuller was under restraint all through the early racing, but when he was let down and asked to race he was not there, while Euphrates, moving up steadily and under a good ride by jockey Robertson, reached a contending position when the stretch was reached. In the run home Vellas tired of the pacemaking and, in a driving finish, Euphrates was winner by a neck, while Vellas in turn was four lengths before The Freshman, which came fast at the end to beat the tired Judge Fuller for that part of the purse. DULL BACK. Mally Jane ran a dull race and there was no time in the running that she was really a contender. Rather an ordinary band of platers started in the six and a ha!f furlongs, second race, and, in a driving finish. Highland Chief just got up to beat home old Care Free, while Miss Fayette saved third place from Sir Barley. Care Free lost little time finding his way into command and he was hustled right along. Appellate and Miss Fayette raced after the old son of Colin, but Sir Barley, after beginning well from the outside position, was slow to be under way and he dropped back badly, as did The Hovel. It was not until the stretch was reached that Care Free began to tire and by that time Highland Chief had worked his way up to a contending position. Sir Barley had gone wide, but it cost a lot of ground and. while he was finishing with a great rush, he was too late and Highland Chief disposed of the tired Care Free. Miss Fayette just lasted to save third place from Sir Barley. Back of Sir Barley came The Hovel, which had also closed a big gap. William Garth won his first race of the season in the opening half mile dash for plater juveniles, when Wrap scored with plenty to. spare. Then, to make it still more of a Garth score, it was Caterpillar, from the stable of Dr. J. P. Jones, that was second. Dr. Jones is a son-in-law of the genial Virginian. Third went to W. T. Andersons Gaucho. All three of the placed horses were appearing under silks for the first time. In the same field were both Oncora and Era. a pair of winners from Havana, but they cut no figure in the running. WINS F.VSILY. Caterpillar was the one to cut out the pace, but Wrap was never far away and, when she started to race in earnest turning into the stretch, she circled around the others to come on and win with something to spare. Caterpillar was doing her best to save the place from Gaucho, and the others followed along in rather strung-out order. Maidens to race seven-eighths was the altogether attractive proposition that was offered as the third race. C. C. Halls Memory proved best, when he led home M. J. Cremens Sun de Meur and Sweepesta. from the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, after forcing the pace to last long enough to beat the Greentree Stables Ancient Mariner for third. Sweepesta went into an early lead and she was the one to force the pace, but Sun de Meur was close at hand, and both Memory and Ancient Mariner were racing forwardly. This was the order to the stretch, where Sweepesta tired badlly and, at the same time. Memory and Sun de Meur came prominently into the picture. Ancient Mariner was still a contender but he was doing his best and unable to make up any ground. Then, in the run home. Memory proved t« Continued on eighth page. . t t t f % t t e e I g BOWIE CARDORDINARY Continued from first page. have more left than the others, to come away an easy winner by five lengths. Sun de Meur caught the tiring Sweepesta in the final strides to be second by a half length and Ancient Mariner finished at the heels of the Burch filly. It was only by reason of being cut off and crowded out of the running at the start of the fifth race that prevented G. C. Winfreys Sleepy Time from being first instead of third. He was crowded completely out of it when there came some crowding as the barrier rose and, after being lengths back all through the running, he closed an immense gap to finish third to M. R. Pons Trojis and Walter J. Salmons Blue Flag. Brahman was the one to go into a long early lead and he was showing the way all through the early running of the mile and seventy yards journey. Rhubarb was going forwardly and Trojis was not far away, with the others in rather strung out order and Sleepy Time back of all. In the stretch Brahman quit badly and then it was that Trojis made her winning bid. Blue Flag had saved ground in the stretch and fought along with becoming courage to save second place, while the unfortunate Sleepy Time, after going to the outside, could only save third from the tired pacemaker. ■ * — _
