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GETTING READY AT BOWIE IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED AT TRACK IN SOUTHERN MARYLAND. Management Equips Track with Additional Conveniences for Comfort of Its Patrons Prospects Excellent for Meeting. Baltimore, Md., November 7. While improvements were being made on the Laurel and Iimlico race tracks, the management of the Bowie plant was not idle, and those who visit the course of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association during the fifteen-day meeting which opens on Tuesday. November 14, will find it one of the most up-to-date and complete in this country or Canada. In the vicinity of 0,000 has been expended by James F. OHara and others interested in the Bowie track to make It measure up to the standard they desire. No track for its age has anything on Bowie at present and the coming meeting, although exceedingly late in the season, gives every indication of being the most successful ever held by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. Speaking of the improvements at Bowie, one of the most important has been the enclosing of the paddock in glass, and this will surely be appreciated by the horsemen, as it will keep out the bleak northwest wind which has swept through the building at previous meetings. The paddock at Bowie is not unlike that at Laurel, the stalls being in double alignment, with a fenced-in walk on all four sides, which will safeguard against accident to those who seek inside information. Owing to the increased amount of business the "iron men" did in the spring the pari-mutuel department has been enlarged. Twelve new machines and as many cashiers booths have been installed and the posts have been removed from the center of the ring, which now makes it one of the finest where the French system of wagering is in vogue. The niutuel system, as it was conducted at Bowie, is simple and well liked by the speculating element, as they can quickly determine just how much the horse will pay. To the east of the grandstand a commodious bleacher has been erected. A new jockey board has been built and the grounds in front of the grandstand has been improved at the expense of several thousand dollars. Because of the lateness of the meeting there will not be any steeplechasing at Bowie this fall, hut it is probable that the jumpers will be given their first outing over the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations course in the spring. The car service promises to be better than ever during the coming meeting, and if such is the case, Bowie will certainly draw banner crowds, as racing at that track has been growing in popularity with each meeting. With the exception of a few stables that will have gone into winter quarters at the close of Iimlico racing, the same horses that have been campaigned at the Iimlico. Havre de Grace and Laurel tracks will- be seen in action at Bowie this month. The contingent of horsemen coming from Pimlico will be reinforced by some of those recently racing in Canada and there will be more horses available for the coming Bowie meeting than for any previous period of the sport there. A week ago every stall was reserved and the applicants were forced to take quarters at the old course of the Washington Jockey Club at Benning, from which place a special horse train will be run to Bowie on each racing day of the meeting. The stable that "Bud" May, one of the best known of the young western trainers racing in the east this fall, will take to Bowie, consists of but one race horse, but that one is Bayberry Candle and the May outfit will earn its keep. The attention of the racing public is invited to an inspection of the record of this mare this year and the skilful manner in which she has been handled. Without going into elaborate detail, it is sufficient to say that she began at Lexington in May by defeating the redoubtable George Smith which was destined to win the Kentucky Derby from Star Hawk in a race of one mile, which distance she covered in better than 1:3S and, since then she has won nearly a dozen races, mostly handicaps. She has campaigned east and west in all sorts of going and, if it cannot be said that she has beaten all the cracks of the mature division, she has, at one time or another, conceded weight to most of them and either taken them into camp or forced them to run their fastest to beat her. The performances of this daughter of Cunard and Tower of Candles, bred by Edward R. Bradley, places her in a class with other great mares of the past and she is right now as good as she was at the beginning of the year. That she will beat the best horses that race at Bowie if they attempt to take liberties with her goes without saying. Her mile and a sixteenth in 1:40 over a dull track at Iimlico Saturday, when the contending opponent was Joseph E. Wideners superbly set up Chiclet, a son of the British Derby winner Spearmint and Nature, she a daughter of Meddler and Correction and a half-sister of Yankee, was by no means the least brilliant of her creditable career. A mare of the stout old-fashioned sort that runs close to the ground without the smallest waste iu action, she husbands her energies well. May, who has trained many a first-class performer in his time, declares that she is the best workaday horse he ever saw and he has unbounded confidence in her abilities. Quite appropriately one of the horses that will go with Bayberry Candle to continue "the rivalry begun at Pimlico is Chiclet. This sterling performer did not begin racing until July and he is now at the height of his form. Nor is Andrew Jackson Joyner, the veteran trainer who sent Chiclet to the post Saturday, willing to concede that Bayberry Candle will again give the son of Spearmint and Tower of Candles eight pounds actual weight and a beating. Chiclet probably did not like the dull going of Saturday as well as did Bayberry Candle. Joyner is willing to give the Cunard mare at least one more trial. Joyner will take with Chiclet to Bowie practically every horse he has in training and among his good ones are George D. Wideners Columbine, the Walden Stakes winner, aud Lady Hillingtou; Joseph D. Wideners King Mart, and Thomas F. Ryans two-year-olds Harvest King and Sea Wave. Columbine is nearly the best, if not, indeed, the best, two-year-old filly of the year, over a distance of ground and her condition Is perfect. Harvest King, a strapping son of Sea King, bred at Mr. Ryans Oakridge Farm in Virginia, is already a winner at one mile. Jefferson Livingston and Edward W. Moore will take to Bowie after the finish of the Maryland Jockey Clubs fall meeting at Pimlico two of the strongest strings that will participate in the racing at Bowie. The Livingston and Moore strings arrived early in the week from Latonia in tip-top condition, the former under the management of Mose Goldblatt and the later in charge of Mr. Moore himself. Prominent among the members of the Livingston establishment is Colonel Vennie, the sturdy English three-year-old which won the Walden Stakes at Pimlico last fall. Always good over a long distance of ground, Colonel Vennie has proved his merit many times this year and he is better just now than he has been all year. Trainer Goldblatt expects to have him out a time or two at Iimlico and lie will race with the best of the Continued on second page. GETTING READY AT BOWIE. Continued from first page. mature division at the Southern Maryland tracks. Equally prominent among the Livingston horses is Julia L., a useful sprinter. She Avill lie especially serviceable at Bowie because of her ability to race on any sort of going. The others are Syrian, a rattling good plater over a considerable distance of ground; the sprinter Ed HoAvard, Bullion, Solid Rock, Matin, Cash on Delivery, Ben Hampson and Diamond. Goldblatt has had the consolidated LIa--iugston string since the finish of the Saratoga meeting and under his painstaking care the horses have improved markedly. Arriet, an imported daughter of Harry Melton he a son of Melton, Sysonbys sire and Koster Girl, is the star of the Moore outfit. Arriet beat the best horses in Canada at distances varying from three-quarters to one mile before she fell sick a month back. Her iudispositino has kept her in the stable for a spell, but she is galloping again and about ready for the races. Moore expects to sIioav her under silks at Pimlico before she appears at Bowie. Moores other good ones are the three-year-old Jack ReeA-es and the two-year-old Joyland and he has a competent lightweight jockey to ride them in W. Crump. John Powers, than whom there is no more skilful trainer of race horses in the country, Avill take the best sprinter of which American race tracks boast to BoAAie in Leochares. This son of Broomstick and Leayonara, which Avas bred by L. S. Thompson at Harry Payne Whitneys Brookdale Farm in Monmouth County, New Jersey, has been a winner for several horsemen through four years, and he has run fast at sprinting distances on many race tracks, but never AAas he as good as he proved himself to be at Pimlico,. Saturday, when he ran three-quarters of a mile in 1:11 oA-er a track that was not at its best.
