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VALUABLE CUP TO BE RUN FOR AT BOWIE Baltimore Md February 27 One of the features to be run during the spring race meeting at Bowie will be the Hotel Belvedere Cup Handicap The cun is worth 500 and must be won twice by an owner to become his personal property although not necessarily iu succession The Bowie meeting is to open spring racing in the east beginning April 1 and running through April 14 twelve days in all allThe The Belvedere Cun Handicap will be run Wed ¬ nesday April 7 and the distance of the race will be one mile and seventy yards for threeyearolds and up Entries will close for this big event Monday April It Is safe to predict that the best horses in training at the track will be sent to the post Thoroughbred owners will have two chances to carry off the cup dnrinr 101 ii In addition to being contested for next spring the trophy will bo put up again next fall and at each race meeting thereafter until It is won twice by an owner ownerOnly Only the month of March remains before the thor ¬ oughbreds will race in Maryland Meetings at Havre de Grace and Pimlico will follow that at Bowie and it will be May 10 before the curtain falls on the sport in this state Already Maryland is taking on a racing aspect Several owners have arrived from New Orleans while others have visited Howie during the week to look the plant over The Prince Georges county track is ready to receive horses horsesApplications Applications are being received for club member ¬ ship Manager OHara announced today that the privilege of membership would be limited to the states of Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia Delaware and the District of Columbia It is the intention of the management t6 erect a handsome clubhouse within the next year ami If present plans do not miscarry it will be second to none in the country countryMaryland Maryland owners are expected to carry off the honors during the Bowie meeting Foremost among them will be Col Ral Parr whose thoroughbreds will bo handled by the Garths Other Marylanders who will race their strings at Bowie include J Merryman Black of Cockeysville who will have Babe Thrill Mollio S Thelma J and St Ilelene William Jennings of Mount Washington witli Col ¬ onel Ashmeade Kittery and two twoyearolds Frank Frlsbie of Savage with Soldier and Pharaoh Al Weston of SiIIsbury with thoroughbreds be ¬ longing to Mrs L A Livingston R T Wilson and several of his own N K Beal of St Indigo with Kl Oro and Sehaller and Harry Rites of Ar ¬ lington with Battery and Lazuli LazuliThe The first shipment from New York will be made tomorrow night when K H Snapper Garrison will send the Marrone stable to Bowie At the same time the horses belonging to W T Anderson will come and others will follow almost dally until well along In March
