Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-21
BOWIE RACES WILL
DRAW 1000 HORSES
Owners OF Thoroughbrcds Make Ap-
plication for Stable Room-Win
Erect Additional Buildings.
TYREE WILL SEND HIS STRING
Washington THURMAN Has Number
OF Good Performers Among His
ioungsters-Electr Railw
Building Terminal Station.

BALTIMORE. MD. February Co
The demand for stabling room for the
spring race meet Mt Bowie from April /
to April u. inclusive has been so great
that General Manager Jim OHara has
given contracts for the erection Of $50
additional stalls. The Southern Mary
land Agricultural Association. under
whose auspices the meet will be given
mas leased three acres of ground which
ndloins the plant for the stables They
Will hc completed about the middle OF
March.
O'Hara has received requests from
thoroughbred owners for SS7 stables
and from Indications in the neiKhbor-
hood OF 1000 horses will be on the
grounds when the bugle blows for the
opening race April /. Everything lis
ready for the arrival OF the early horse
men and. with the present weather con-
, tinuing. horses Will have sufficient time
TO get into excellent condition for the
opening OF the Eastern racing season.
facing programs for the meeting
have been distributed to horsemen. Tho
opening contest Will be for younpster,
! al TOUR furlongs. Tho second Will be
Tor three year-olds ut five and one-half
| furiongs. The Bowie Inaugural Handi-
cap, which Is the fourth number on tho
cara, VIII be at seven furlongs, out
or the chute. The third event will be nj
tnree-quartcrs OF a mile, for four-year-
olds and up The last two races will bs
over distance OF ground, the nth he
ing Mt mile and twenty wards and
the sixth at mile.
The demand for stnblinE room spenks
well for the success of the initial meet
ing under the auspices OF the Jockey
, Cub The conditions OF the races hayo
becn so arranged as to give all horse
men Il chance to win one or mora
we'll filled
Secretary McLennan writes from New
Orleans that the first shipment Of
! thoroughbrcds from the Crescent CITY
I" Eowie VIII be made the first Of next
week. Practically all the thorouR hbreds
which raced there will he seen carving
silks at tho Prince George County trnc,s
Requests for stabling room have been
received from owners now racing Mt
havana Cuba III. C. Bcdwell. who
purchased farm in Howard County.
near Laurel. has put In applications
| Tor thirty-two stalls; John w Panglc.
| four: Walter Congdon, five; Larry
carey. four. and ~. +. Dayton, four
teen. All these horesmcn are at Ua
vana.
DR.. ]. s. Tyree. the Washington turf
! man. who had a very successful sea-
son with two-year-olds in 1914, has
visited Bowie and selected his stabline
room DR.. Tyrec will race preten-
! tious string at Bowie. and, a, his
youngsters generally give n good ac
! count OF themselves none probably
VIII he overlooked when starting.
The Washington. Baltimore and An
napohs electric road began tho cree
ton or terminal mt Bowie to-day.
The new facilities when completed will
he great improvement, and the pa
irons VIII not BIO compelled to wait
for trains after leaving the track. In.
cidentally the transportation ,facilitio,
prohahiy VIII be the best in Mary
land.
Persons Will be able to leave Baltt.
more or Washington ns late as
o'clock and arrive Mt the track in time
for the first race.