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MEMORIAL NOW STAKE Race Honoring T. K. Lynch Feature of Bowie Holiday Card. i Nine Contending for ,000 Added Prize Campbell Puts High - Weight on Conquer. F- BOWIE. Md., Nov. 23. The memorial to Thomas K. Lynch, former official of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association and veteran turf writer, becomes a full -fledged stake tomorrow with the alteration of the customary Thanksgiving Handicap to a race named in his honor. Formerly this tribute had been paid in an overnight event. The headline holiday attraction is a mile and a sixteenth affair, carrying ,000 in added money, which has attracted" nine overnight entrants, five of them being good stake winners. . Best of the lot, in the opinion of handi-capper Jack Campbell, is Mrs. Louise Viaus J Conquer, which raced to a dead heat with Honey Cloud in the Southern Maryland Handicap last Saturday. This five-year-old son of Victorian and Note o Love has been assigned 122 pounds, conceding from eight ,to twenty pounds in actual weight to his .rivals. Despite this, hes bound to be one of the choices, possibly the favorite, though Uiot at as short a price as he was in the Week-end mile and a sixteenth. SKIES SULLEN. j The skies were sullen and threatening this afternoon, with a promise of rain and a I muddy track for the turkey day competition. This should not harm the stake attraction, fe.s the six leading contenders all are excellent mud runners. j Conquer has had two races over the track and they say the Virginia gelding is at peak form. Prior to these efforts, he accounted for five straight over three different courses, carrying considerable luggage in all. This morning he sharpened up with a half in :51 and under Gilbert one may expect a keen effort from the son of Victorian. F Busy K., whose victory in the Yorktown .Handicap at Empire City in July brought a sixty day suspension for trainer Ogle on a stimulation charge, promises to be the one Conquer will have to beat. The Busy American colt won the Bryan and OHara Memorial over this track last November and earlier this month finished a creditable third to. War Admiral and Mucho Gusto in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park. His three-quarters in 1:16 over the track was the best move at that distance shown here recently. It says hes on edge. CLODIONS RECORD. i Clodion, a son of Pharamond, II., which started his 1938 campaign with a victory oVer the Bowie oval, was a most commendable third to Conquer and Honey Cloud in the Prince George Autumn Handicap. Many thought he would have won that, only for being forced to race through the deep going for the greater part of the trip. He was only a length off the leaders at the end of that journey and takes on no additional jweight, whereas Conquer picks up two. .Given fair racing luck, this gelding should prove a stern contender. Scrooge, a five-time winner this season, registered in neat fashion Monday and four pounds less weight should be appreciated. This son of Haste favors the track and it is questionable if he ever was better. Aethel-wold is another winner during the meeting Which must be accorded consideration. This Continued on twenty-third page. MEMORIAL NOW STAKE Continued from first page. Challenger II. three-year-old is a much improved horse and his 106 pounds appears a favorable impost. Chanceviews connections must be praying for mud, as only such going would make him formidable. At least, such is the testimony offered by his initial effort of the meeting. There he was beaten off. Mr. Canron would be a possibility on best fall form, but there is a chance he may have been knocked out by his race in the Bowie Handicap. Unheralded, even though in with a mere 102 pounds, appears outmatched, while it is impossible to give High Velocity serious consideration after his effort in last Saturdays stake. There he was five lengths off Conquer and Honey Cloud at the finish. ESTABLISHED IN 1915. The Thanksgiving Handicap, as the Lynch Memorial formerly was known, was first established in 1915 and has been responsible for two track records. In 1926, when it was run at a mile and three-sixteenths, Backbone traveled the distance in 1:57 to beat the redoubtable Peanuts, a mark which still stands. Two years later it was decided over the mile and a furlong route, with Jock establishing a record of 1:52 in whipping Chance Play and others. Thats still in the book. Tomorrows race gives promise of an excellent contest, though the field is not up to the best ones which ran in the Thanksgiving Day stake of other years. In addition to the pair of record-breakers mentioned above, the race also was taken by Misstep, which holds the mile and a sixteenth track mark; the Preakness winner, Mate, and the sturdy Calumet Dick. Mate, incidentally, is the only horse to account for two renewals. As a three-year-old he packed 117 pounds to victory and two years later won it with ten pounds less aboard. Distance races will be another feature of the holiday sport, as five of the seven events are at a mile and seventy yards or farther. Two of the contests will be at a mile and a half. All have drawn large fields and should provide competitive racing.
