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J r is s PROBABLE BOWIE INAUGURAL HORSES. Washington. I. C. March 30. — The racing season u of 1916 will be inaugurated at the Bowie race track k i c c c I • 1 i 1 I • J J ■ I i [ L ne-xt Saturday by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association and the- feature race of the opening day. the Inaugural Handicap. seven-eighths, for three-year-olds and over, bids fair to call to the post a good field. Secretary Jaeneh McLennan, who recently arrived at Bowie from New Orleans, looks for ten or twelve starters and not the least formidable of them will be sent out by Stables that wintered at Bowie and Benning. The Benning Inaugural candidates of tlie highest promise are G. A. Mullers Fenmouse. the Mizpah Stabh-s Kingly. William I*. Burchs Corsican. W. T. Andersons Star tiift. and Colonel I. M. Parrs The Masquerader and the Bowie aspirants are John W. Bangles promising three-year-old Prohibition and William R. Mizells Robert Bradley. These horses probably are as fit as any that have raced in the south, for in spite of the bad weather of the b:st four or five week*, their trainers have been busy with them every day. Fred Kraft believes that Star Gift is as good as she was last spring, when, it will be remembered, she wan winning frequently at Bowie, and Fenmouse and Kingly, the last named a Toronto Cup winner, have both been three-quarters over the old Washington Jockey Club course in better than 1 :1S, which work is considered as good as three-quarters in 1:1." at Belmont Park or other fast New York tracks. Fenmouse. which took on a bit of flesh over winter has grown into a grand-looking filly and she is good iu any sort of going. "Little Mike" Daly, who is handling her for Mr. Muller, speaks of her with enthusiasm and predicts that she will go any distance. Daly is training Kingly also, but he does not consider that handsome son of Stanhope II. as good at seven-eighths as Fenmouse is likely to prove herself. Kingly se-enis to prefer a longer route. But Kingly will start in the Inaugural he-cause he is preparing for a campaign about New York and he needs as much racing hereabouts as he can get to fit him for that campaign. Daly has still another potential Inaugural candidate in Flit-torgold. but it is hardly probable that Flittergold will start if Fenmouse continues to train satisfactorily. Daly is planning to make a long dis-tam-e runer of this brother of Fair Play and he will be rserved for the long races of the Bowie program, of which there are many. Corsican. a sen of Golden Maxim ami Personal. probably is no better than a useful selling plater when the best horses are- fit. but he has the advantage this spring of a first rate preparation. William Brooks has prepared him for the Inaugural and there are few better nun at fitting a horse ia springtime than Brooks. The Masquerader. a ge-ld-ing now, is behaving more like The Masquerader of two years back, when he was the most brilliant two-year-old in these parts, and William Garth believes that he will run to the promise of his juvenile form. It is the intention of Colonel Parr to pat The Masquerader to jumping, but not until i ■ has done a bit of fiat racing in Maryland Much has already been said of the improvement in Prohibition since last year and it is only necessary to mention here that he is galloping satisfactorily at Bowie- for John W. Bangle, who has ; taken over the job of training him. Robert Bradley, which wintered with Prohibition in the stable of .lames Arthur at the new Maryland track, is the-most , forward of the old horses there. He looks I about like he did last fall and Arthur believes that he will not give the starter as much trouble as he did last year. He- has had a lot of training at t a starting gate- that Arthurs fore-man rigged up for r the spe-eial purpose of teaching him gemel manners. When Bobc-rt Bradley i- right he is formidable in any company up to one mil and an eighth. A formidable Benning candidate for the Inaugural 1 in Richard !•. Carmans stable is tie- Hippodrome f three-year-old Bkeer Face, but he did not whiter r hereabouts. Sheer Face raced at New Orleans and I Mr. Carman brought him here fit. lb- has had no II more than enough gall ning since his arrival at t Benning to keep ;ln edge on ids spaed.
