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BOWIE OPENING DAY CLOSE AT HAND. Final Preparations for Inauguration o" Eastern Racing at Maryland Track Next Saturday. Baltimore. Md.. March 2S. Only a few days remain before the thoroughbreds will be racing once more ill Maryland. Next Saturday Bowie opens its gates for a twelve day meeting which will mark the opening of the racing season of 1910 in the ,ast. A big bunch of horses is already at the track and more are scheduled to arrive within the next few days. Ry the time opening day rolls around between 300 and 4M horses will be stabled at Howie, with 200 more at Renninc which will be available for the racing and will be sent on the daily racing train. With a backward March, horses trained in this latitude are not as forward as usual, and for the first few days at least the horses which raced at New Orleans and Havana will have a shade the better of the racing. New York horsemen say their strings are all backward, and it is hardly likely that much -will be heard from tin in before Havre de Grace at least. Everything is in readiness for the ojiening at Rov ie and the track is in good condition. Some improvements have been made in connection with the workini: of the mutants, which will enable the spectators to get their money down quicker than under the old system. Another machine has been put on for the combination straight, place and show bets, and a KB machine for straight and show bets. Although all days are now busy days at Bowie more work was probably crowded into Saturday between sunrise and sunset than on any day this season. The touch of spring brought out the majority of the thoroughbreds quartered at Prince Georges Park and the oval resembled a merry-go-round for the horses that will try for the purses during the twelve days of the meeting. Trainers expressed themselves as well pleased with the sort of weather now prevailing, and stated that if it only continues they will have their animals in tip-top condition by the time the bugle is blown at 2:90 oclock next Saturday afternoon. Although practically all the thoroughbreds that raced at New Orleans and Havana during the winter are at the track, more from nearby and distant points will cause in during the week, so by Friday all the stables will be filled. Like the majority of the other plants in the country lack of quarters is one of the chief drawbacks. Secretary McLennan spent several days last week at Beaming making arrangements for the horses that will race at Bowie during the meeting. A number of horses that raced at Juarez and at the beginning of the meeting at Hot Springs will arrive this week. Several stables that wintered at Charleston also will arrive. The addition to the lawn in front of the grandstand was completed some time ago and visitors who perfer to view the races from this spot will not be crowded, as in the past, unless an exceptionally large crowd turns out. The plant has been touched up here and there, nnd when the gates are formally opened patrons will see several improvements. The pari-mutuel plant will be thoroughly gone over this week by Marty Mahoney to ascertain that everything is in working order. The force will be larger than last year, and a couple of extra cashiers will be employed to hurry things along for those who hold tickets on winning horses. Kenneth Karrick has arrived at Bowie from the south with Ilandfiill. and brings word that his father. William II. Karrick. will come in this week with the horses of Harry K. Knapp and Schuyler L. Parsons. The best-known of the horses in the elder Karricks stable are the veteran miler Yankee Notions and the four-year-olds Phosphor and Sharpshooter. Young Karrick does not believe that either Phosphor or Sharpshooter will be ready to beat horses of the highest quality at Bowie this spring, but they have important engagements later on. and it will be necessary to get some races under their belts in order that they may be ready when the bugle blows at I.elmont Park. Sharpshooter, one of the best of the long-distance running three-year-olds of the season of 1915. is to be Mr. Parsons candidate in the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps. Yankee Notions, a fast and courageous little horse in almost any going, will be the Knapp representative in the Inaugural Handicap on the opening day at Bowie. Yankee Notions was none too sound when he went into winter quarters last fall, and Karrick has kept him steadily at shed work all winter to prevent his filling up. He is. therefore, about ready. None of the three -year-olds of the Karrick stable will race in Maryland. They did not do as well as their owners honed last year, and they will not be asked to do much until early summer. Young Karrick. too big to ride any more, is now a full fledged trainer. His colt Handfull was a winner in Maryland last fall, and he has come back this spring ready for the colors. Handfull is a son of Royal Flush III. and Modreda. He is not as crazy at the barrier as was his brother Firestone, which put a peed many gray hairs in the head of Sam Ilihlrelh a few years back, and probably not as good a horse. Rut he has improved in size over winter and young Karrick is confident he will give a good account of himself in average company. James Johnson, a recent arrival from New Orleans at Howie, brought the veteran campaigners Republican, Ins Kay. Ben la. Gleaming, Duke of Dunbar and Lord Marshall and a couple of two-year-olds in So Eze and Africa Bean, the former by Salvation Illusion, and the latter a son of Boanerges and Afric Queen. Africa Reau is a half-brother to none other than Africander, the greatest three-year old of loot. The stable I.arry Carey brought back from New Orleans includes Cliff Field, a useful selling plater at one mile and a sixteenth or thereabouts; the three-year old Tribolo, which won at Relniont Path last spring, and Illuminator, a three-year-old son of Von Tromp that Carey bought in New Orleans.
