Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-18
FINE CARDS At BOWIE
MANY WELL-KNOWN ANIMALS
ENTERED FOR SPRING MEET
Prominent Horsrmcn All Over East
Manifest Interest In Mary
1uud 'Truch.
Especial To The Times Dispatch

Especial I" The Times Dispatch.
BALTIMORE. March l7.-whcn a
count of the horses that wintcred at
B.nning, iiavrc dc Grace, pimlico. the
southern training places at Charleston
ana Aiken, and tho many private cstab-
Iishmcnts scattered through the Dis
trict Of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia,
Southern Pennsylvania and New Jcr-
soy is made. it viii bc found that the
Southern Maryland Agricultural hsso-
cation Will hHvc Il matter of 100 or SOD
from which to draw to fiji the seven
daily races az the fourteen days pro
gram Of the coming Bowie meeting
April To "a, inclusive
For. in addition to these, half tho
thorouchbrcdS that have been racing
at havana, New Orleans, JuarcH and
Tia Juana viii be coming this way
after the finish OF tho Hot Springs
meeting, while tho other half will make
for tho tracks of the Blue Grass cir
cult. Two hundred now stalls. many
more than were destroyed by the fire
OF last November. III which $4,000 or
$4,000 worth OF horses lost their lives
have been SGT up since the first OF the
year. and still there is not room at the
new track for all tho horses that Will
race there. Scores of them will have
to put w with stabiinE at Bcnnn;
Laurel and Pimlico, and at the Driving
Park opposite tho Maryland Jockey
Clubs track. and the Inconvenience Of
daily trips To and from Bowie in motor
buSScS and express cars.
The Southern Maryland Agricultural
Association. having fallen heir to the
Washington Jockey Clubs old place in
the scheme of Eastern racing. begins
and finishes tho Jockey clubs racing
seasons now at Prince Georges Park
And Prince Georges Park, although It
has about ii still tho suggestion Of
raw ncwncss. is situated midway be-
! tween Baltimore and Washington on
the interurhan electric line, IN nm en-
Vironmcnt as picturesque as that Of
any race track in the country. While
il is seasoning slowly, the aesthetic
among its patrons would do We'll to
remember that Belmont Park. now as
attractive TO the poetic eye as 1t is
magnificent in its vastncss. was new
to an offensive degree only Il few sea
/ sons back
1 Not all the horses OF the great
Eastern stables will he ready for the
Bowl" opening on April =. Neverthc-
| less, many OF the l;asts leading sports
men will send to Prince Georges Park
the most prccocious OF their thorough
bred lyers. Among these sportsmcn
are August Belmont. the chairman OF
the jockey club: r. T. Wilson, president
of the Saratoga Associations: Willis
| sharpe kilmer. Harry Payne whitney.
w X. Coo, Clifford \. Cochran, A. X
Macomher. Richard l.. Carman. Henry
! T. ONnard, Wilfrid Eiau. of Montreal:
! Richard T.. Carman, ~, Samuel Ross
Edward u. Mclean and nr. j. S. Tyrec,
OF Washington: G. X Skinker. u. Ray
m"nd. of Montreal: J. Il. Street Col
onel Israel AIiltiadcs Parr, OF Balti-
more; y. n. Parr and Joseph r. Davis.
Of West Virginia; Robert Walden, Al
| fred iicnncn Morris. william l.. Oliver
/ Archibald Rarklic and G.. 4. Muller, Of
Phiiadclphia; William Shields. Paul
Powers. Alexander Humphreys, John
! Oliver kecnc, Williams Garth, Lewis
Garth. William Sheedy. Thomas clyde.
\. G. Weston. the Quincy stable An
,hony l.. Astc and w. r. Anderson.
Richard Pending. who has made
something of Il reputation as Il track
superintendent in the past year, put
IN the winter improving the going at
Bowie. by taking advantage of tho
uniformly good weather OF January. he
succeeded in ironing out the uneven
places. OF which horscmcn had not un
reasonable ground for complaint last
season and the season before. The
SHOWS and rains OF the last fortnight
have helped Pending materially In
Fighting things up. for they have
/ packed. as no roller could. the new
soil he put down.
Bowie track is not fast. as persons
used TO Belmont Park understand fast
tracks. The soil OH which it. lies is
sandy ana porous. much like the soil
ut hrnn!nG. Nevertheless. n FIRST -clas 81
/ Sprinter can get threc-quarters Of a
/ mile In 1913 or better over the new
track when the conditions are right
and the going is ideal for carly spr,nN
and late fall racing
The Bowie directorate have not vet
devised "A scheme Of stake specials fol
the spring meetings at Prince Georges
| Park. They have been experimenting
for Il couple of seasons to find out just
what kind sportsmcn, who get read,
for April racing. like. But In the ma I.
Ter OF overnight purses, Bowie yields
to no track i'll the East. No purse this
spring viii have Il value of less thar
S6on IN added money, and the handicaI
features Will pay 800 and more Also
each OF the daily programs will consist
OF seven races.