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READY AT BENNINGS. The spring meeting of the Washington Jockey Club March 23 to April 14 has almost arrived, and every day Is a busy one at the Bennings track. The stables are filling up and by Monday next there will not be a vacant stall at the track, and the accommodations in the village of Bennings for both man and beast will also be taxed to their utmost capacity. C. W. Leavitt, Jr., the landscape gardener and race track constructor, is at the track putting on the finishing touches. On the track itself he hauled sand for all the wet places, where the clay does not dry out fast enough. The lawn of the clubhouse and first turn has been decorated with trees, shrubs, evergreens, etc., very much improving the general appearance of things. Mr. Leavitt says: "I do not consider the top soil of the Bennings track a mistake by any means; in fact, I think after the track thoroughly settles and the superintendent has really good dry weather to thoroughly and constantly work it, it will be one of the safest, best and fastest tracks in America." Clerk of the course Crickmore has issued the program book for the first twelve days, and the conditions generally should suit all comers. Purses have been materially in-; creased, and each day presents a most varied program. The two-year-olds which will fill the events for the baby racers will come from the stables of F. R. Hitchcock, the Columbia stable, J. E. Lane, William Jennings, the Pepper stable, Col. Edward Morrell, P. S. P. Randolph all of these are now on the grounds, August Belmont, which stables came from their winter quarters at Garnett, S. C; the Goughacres stable, W. C. Daly; James McLaughlins stable of forty horses, many of them two-year-olds, and others are due in a few days. Morning Telegraph.-
