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BOWIE TRACE IMPROVING SQUEELER DEFEATS YANKEE NOTIONS IN A CLOSELY FOUGHT FINISH. Misick Stable Takes Two Races with The Busybody and Quien Saba Kentucky Boy Defeats Lucius by Inches Track Gossip. Baltimore, Md.. Xovember 10. A featureless card was decided today at Bowie. The fourth race, a dasli of six and a half furlongs, brought together a band of shifty platers. The race furnished a stirring contest, the finish resolving itself into a long and hard stretcl, drive between Sqneeler and Yankee Xotions, in which the former got in in the final strides to win by a neck. Yankee Xotions set a fast " early pace, but when lie began to tire in the stretch he swerved to the outside and forced the winner out with him. The J. D. Misick stable scored with two more good things" this afternoon, when The Busybody and Quien Sabe followed up Dr. Charcots victory of yesterday, by winning the third and fifth races. There were tips galore for the opener, a six and a half furlongs dash for maiden two-year-olds. Kentucky Boy proved best of the band and managed to struggle home a nose in advance of Lucius. The latter finished fast and would have beaten Kentucky Boy with another stride to go. The track conditions showed a decided improvement over yesterday and the going was in good order. It was hard and firm on the backstretch, but a bit soft in the last quarter. While loading his horses at the chute at Pimlico A. J. Joyner traded the plater King Mart for Man-slayer with James Hewitt, who represented the Thorncliffe stable in the transaction. King Mart ran in the hitters stable colors this afternoon. James MacManus lias decided to winter his horses at Gravcsend,. where they will be shipped at the conclusion of the present ineeting. Frank T. Coddington. former editor of the Washington Herald and. of the Detroit Free Press, was a visitor at the course this afternoon. Mr. Coddington has a host of friends among the turfmen. George Odom has succeeded Edward Rathnian as trainer of Lily Heavens. E. C. Griffiths has purchased from Sam Louis the plater Plumose. The latter lias been turned over to W. B. Mitchell, who will ship her to Cuba to race for her new owner. John .7. Mackessey, who will act as paddock judge at the meeting to be held at Warrenton on Saturday, leaves for that place tonight. Harry X. Price, the Washington turf scribe, also went to Warrenton to report the ineeting for his paper. Arthur Brent has taken over the horses of L. A. Seregni and will ship the stable to Xew Orleans on Saturday. T. J. Shannon has decided to remain at the Bowie course wtih his string during the winter. Walter S. House is another horseman who will winter here. Edward McBride will remain at the Gentlemens Driving Park track with the band of yearlings he picked up during the summer and fall. He will have one three-year-old in his stable, Reprobate. The sprinter Viley is back in the stable of his former owner, J.. Phillips. The latter purchased him from his son, George, this morning. John J. McGraw was an arrival from New York this morning. He will remain over for the week end. Xews reached the track this morning of the death last night at his home in Arlington, Md., of Lon Forbes, a well-known clocker. He was taken sick during the Laurel meeting and succumbed to a paralytic stroke, which followed a severe attack of Xeuritis. He was survived by a wife and a son, seven years of age. The body will be shipped to his former home at Louisville, Ky., for interment. He was employed for several years by Joseph Murphy and R. A. Kennedy. Jockey J. McTaggart has announced his retirement for the year. He will leave tomorrow for his home in Xew York City, where he will spend the winter. Jockey Keogh left for Xew York this morning to jconfer with J. E. Widener regarding his engagement with that owner for next year. This mornings work-outs, over a slow track, at Bowie included the following: All Smiles Seven-eighths in 1:35. Amazon Three-quarters in 1:19. Brave Mile in 1:54. Burbank Three-quarters in 1:21. Budweiser Mile in 1:51. Carlton G. Three-eighths in 39. s Counterpart Mile in 1:54. Christie Half mile in 50. Freda Johnson Three-eighths in 38. Fruit Cake Half mile in 53. i: Gloomy Gus Three-quarters in 1:20. Golden Bond Half mile in 53. Kewessa Half mile in 54. Lady Bob Five-eighths in 1:0675. Leading Lady Half mile in 50 ; Marse Henry Five-eighths in 1:05. Margaret X. Mile in 1:47. Ray o Light Mile in 1:53. Sevillian Half mile in 54. Spectra Three-quarters in 1:20. Star Gaze Half mile in 51. Zodiac Mile in 1:30.
