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BOWIE TRACK IMPROVING MUDDY AND SLOW YESTERDAY, BUT DRYING AND SHOULD BE GOOD TODAY. Hasty Cora Defeats Alvord in a Hot Finish — Troxler Rides Two Winners — W. P. Burch Has a Good Two-Year-Old. Baltimore. Md., April 10.— The usual card of seven races was offered at the Bowie course this afternoon. Weather conditions changed for the better and a record-breaking Monday crowd was on hand to witness the sport. The racing was spirited throughout, with close and exciting finishes. The going represented a decided improvement over that of Saturday and by tomorrow the course will again l e in good condition. The best contested race of the day was when Hasty Cora defeated Alvord, after a bard dive, and Luther accounted for the sixth. Troxler had the mount on both these winners. Samuel Spencer was an arrival this afternoon, coming over from Havre de Grace. He reports that the pari-mutuel plan has been completed. Booths for twenty-seven sellers and thirty cashiers have been constructed and are patterned after the Laurel establishment. Among other arrivals today were R. E. Watkins from Hot Springs and C. R. Fleischmann from New York. Jules Carson sold the filly Alary Warren to J. Melherson on private terms this afternoon. She will be campaigned over the half-mile tracks iu Canada. Luther, winner of the sixth race, was bid up to 1916.sh00, an advance of 00, by Sam Louis. He was protected. William Shields. Richard F. Carman, M. Daly and William and Lewis Garth will transfer their horses from Penning to Havre de Grace Wednesday. W. P. Burch will ship direct from Benning to Pimlico. In his string he has the most promising two-year-old that has been galloped at Penning in Ultimatum, a son of Tltimus — Speedmass that will race under the silks of Samuel Ross, the Washington sportsman. This youngster is well advanced and is credited with three-eighths in 35 over the old course of the Washington Jockey Club. There will be a sale of horses in training in the Bowie paddock Thursday. It. O. Egan will dispose of Water Lily. Ada Anne and King Worth, while Archie Zimmer will offer Ancon. Bob Redfield. Richard Langdon and Cat o Nine Tails. Steve Judge said today that after the sale of the Egan horses he would return to California to take up other horses there. He has a half-brother to King Worth, by Von Tromp. Hearsay, a sister to the same fast sprinter now four-year-olds and a brother to Ada Anne. Colonel James. Louisiana sportsman, was operated on for appendicitis in the Cniversity Hospital in Baltimore last night. Phil McCinnis has not heard anything of the report that he may be engaged to do the starting at Dorval. Matt Brady will move over to Havre de Grace Friday from Benning with the Joseph E. Davis string. He has the three -year-olds Byrn Chant, The Decision and Alledo and the older horses are Vifir. winner of the Harbor Hill Cup last full. Senegambian and White Metal. Senegambian has lieen ailing for some time with a bad leg and it is doubtful if lie can be brought to the races, if iu-deed he can lie saved at all. G. R. Tompkins is due to arrive from his Glen-burnie farm in Virginia. He is shipping to Pimlico and has a string of well-advanced steeplechasers. William Walker will ship his stable to the Woodbine track at Toronto Monday. Stanley Fay is a seriously sick horse at the Walker farm near Toronto. F. J. Pons will lie at Havre de Grace for the first four days of that meeting and then will ship to Kentucky. He reports the first foal of the year at his farm. She is a daughter of Tony Bonero and Princess Thorpe. After his winning race of Saturday, L. Beckers Brighouse was advanced from 00 to 05 ami bought in. William Walker. Patrick Kooney and 1". E. Fitzgerald all took part in the bidding. Jockey John Pullman was suffering from a severe attack of indigestion today and had to cancel his engagement. Eugene Kutz came in from the west today with his apprentice rider J. Dodd. The stake blanks for the Windsor-meeting were received by Joseph McLennan and distributed among the horsemen today.
