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A. C. BOSTWICK FINE RIDER Owner of Mate and His Brother "Pete" Rate Most Skillful Horsemen in America. A. C. Bostwick, owner of Mate, Preakness and American Derby winner, is not only a steward of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, but there is no more skillful horseman in America. He can not ride as lightly as his younger brother, G. H., better known as "Pete," hence he can not ride as often. His uncle by marriage, F. Ambrose Clark, a right good amateur jockey himself twenty-five to thirty-five years back, and the winner of many an open steeplechase, rates Albert the better of the Bostwick brothers. Mrs. Clark, their aunt calls it a dead heat. Pete Bostwick will ride Mrs. Clarks jumpers at Arlington. Both the Bostwicks have won steeplechases and hurdle races in England. Albert Bostwick expects to show three or four winners in the field. He thinks particularly well of Zinitia, a mare by Battle Axe, he picked up in Ireland last winter. Scuttle, his three-year-old maiden filly, by Whiskaway, from Sea Tale, which has taken place money in the Pimlico and Coaching Club American Oaks renewals at Baltimore and Belmont Park, is to have a shot at the Arlington Oaks Purse of about 2,000 July 11. Bostwick has a weakness for Scuttle because of her mother, Sea Tale, daughter of Sea King and Anecdote, a good steeplechaser in her heyday, and a favorite mount of his in the hunting field these five or six years.
