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BOWIE MEETING NEARING OPENING DAY. Many Prominent Turfmen Have Reserved Stabling and Horses are Plentiful. Washington. March 2$. — How ic the newest of Marylands racing plants, is ready for the opening of the Eastern season, which is scheduled to be gin on April 1 with the spring meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, which will run through to April 11. Spring meetings at Havre de Grace uud Pimlico will follow before the thoroughbreds leave New York for what promises to be the best season of racing since the hostile legislation against the sport. Many Improvements have been made at Bowie and the- track has been in such excellent condition that horses wintered the-re are as well advanced toward real racing condition as are- the hundreds that arc-arriving day by day from the southern tracks. Every stable of the big eastern circuit will be-represented at Bowie-. The- best horses will come up from tlie south to take part in the fray. Among tin easterners of prominence who have applied for stabling accommodation are August Belmont, Richard T. Wilson. Price McKlnney, James Butler. Thomas F. Clyde, Robert Wahten. Col. Ital Parr, .lore Wheelwright. A. D. Parr of Clarksburg, W. Va.; Gifford A. Cochran, Schuyler I.. Parsons, Harry K. Kaapp, Andrew Miller. John E. Madden, John Banford, c. K. t;. Billings. Frederick Johnson. George F. Johnson, Harry Payne Whitney, Lewis S. Thompson. Thomas F. Ryan, J. Temple Gwathmey, W. It. Coe. Archibald Barklie. the- Quincy Stable. Herbert L. Pratt. Grant Hugh Browne-, apt. K. P.. Cassutt, II. II. 11-w itt. A. P.. Hancock, W. S. Kilmer. Jefferson Livingston, the- Ureentree stable-. George D. Wldener, Mrs. Lillian A. Livingston. Henry T. Oxnarel and James ,. Oxnard. There are- at Washington more- than 150 horses that did not go south at the- beginning of the whiter and st of the in are nady. The Washington winter was generally mild anil the going of the olel Binning track, where they are training, has been good right along. These horses bilong to the Mizpah Stable. Michael Daly. G. Muller of Philadelphia, the Quinary Stable. Richard F. Carman, William Carter, John Kelly. Jere Murphy. W. T. Anderson. William Brooks. Henry T. Oxnard. Samuel Boss. Edward B. McLean. William Garth, Lewis Garth, Woods Stockton. William P. P.urch and William L. Maupln. Part of the Carman string took part in the New Orleans meeting anil returned to Washington; last week. In addition to the- horses that went away last fall— ltroomv ale. Startling, ti. M. Miller. Ella I.ry-soii. Garnet and Typography — Mr. Carman brought back a good mare in Linda Payne and a rattling good three year old colt in Skeer Face. Skeer Pace has tin- reputation of being the smartest three-year old deeveloped at New Orleans. He is to be the Carman starter in the Inaugural Handicap on the- opening day Some of the horses that took part in the New Orleans and Juarez meetings stopped off at Hot Springs for the spring racing there, but a goodly contingent slreadj lias arrived at Bowie and more an- coming.
