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- -- Here and There on the Turf Mucho Gusto Wins for Araho Stable Bowie Opens Auspiciously Brooklyn in Good Condition Sande Seeks Another Derby i . Bowie was away to a smashing opening Thursday, with sunny skies smiling on a crowd, the size of which cheered the hearts of general manager Joseph B. Boyle and the other owners of the southern Maryland course. Featuring the inaugural program of the nine-day spring meeting was the seventh running of the Kowe Memorial Handicap, a dash of six furlongs, with ,000 added, which resulted in the white-spotted black silks of Mrs. Walter E. OHaras Araho Stable being carried into first and third places by Mucho Gusto and New Deal, being split by the sharply improved ex-plater Zoic, property of H. E. Enger. The victory was the first for the five-year-old son of Marvin May and Sweetheart Time, by Hanbridge, since he was acquired early during the Hia-leah Park meeting. Mucho Gusto raced seven times in the Araho silks at Hialeah with the best he could do being to finish second a couple of times. He was a starter in the Widener Challenge Cup and was a factor during the opening mile. Now that Mucho Gusto has broken the ice for the Araho Stable he may go on to more important achievements. His Howe Memorial victory undoubtedly returned a good portion of his purchase price. He is a superior mudder and may have been caught at a disadvantage at Hialeah, but his record shows that he can extend his speed over a greater distance when the going is off. Chances are that Mucho Gusto will encounter mud some time during the spring season and, if such should happen when an important race is run, the Araho veteran may take over a more formidable field than he defeated in the Rowe Memorial; but, getting back to the Bowie opening, a large and enthusiastic crowd was present as the major season got under way and further good times in racing, not only in Maryland, appear at hand. Supporters of Brooklyn, second choice to Fompoon in the Kentucky Derby futures, need have no worries about his being backward in his training. The upstanding bay son of Blue Larkspur and Knockaney Bridge has done everything asked of him so far at Idle Hour Farm by trainer H. J. Thompson and is beginning to show the lines of condition. Even so, Brooklyn has lost only ten poundsin the last month, and now tips the scales at about 1,130 pounds, which makes him a big enough horse for any man. Thompson has given him several workouts over the mile distance and if his program tor the Walden Handicap winner does not meet with interference, Brooklyn will be seen under silks during the Keeneland meeting, with his principal objective at the Lexington track being the Blue Grass Stakes on April 29 over the mile and one-eighth distance. Billionaire, the other E. R. Bradley Derby hopeful, does not hold near the promise of Brooklyn, but he is being prepped the same way as his stablemate. In his races last autumn, the brother to Brokers Tip, faltered in the late stages and he doesnt seem to have overcome this distressing habit. Thompson hasnt given up trying, however, and is endeavoring to educate the son of Black" Toney and Forteresse to run the last quarter faster than the first. Ordinarily, Billionaire may be expected to be called upon to set the pace for Brooklyn in the Derby if Thompson does not feel that some of the others in the race will do the job. Meanwhile, Brooklyn and confidence is in the air Jooks the part, at Idle Hour. Considerable glamor is being added I to this the presence of Earl vears Derby through lande at Louisville, with three , Candida es, conoshiftpr Fencing and Gloom Lsusier. fcenesWf er and Fencing were obtained from Joseph E. Widener at Hialeah Park. considerable improve- and they displayed txoenty-nintfya - Continued on HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. ment performing under the banner of Maxwell Howard, Dayton sportsman. Sceneshifter came very close to equalling the Hialeah record for the mile and one furlong on closing day, and would have done so had he been pressed, causing some horsemen to believe that he could have won the Flamingo Stakes, with such an effort the previous Saturday. Sande rode Gallant Fox, Flying Ebony and Zev to victory in the Derby, and almost scored again with Osmand and Brac-adale. Now it is his ambition to saddle a Derby winner and between now and Derby Day he will be one of the most prominent personages at Churchill Downs.
