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AT THE MARYLAND TRACKS EVERY INDICATION OF A LIVELY OPENING FOR THE SEASON OF RACING. Many Horses Wintered in the Vicinity Are Well Along in Their Early Preparation — Colonel Parrs Stable — McLeans Two-Year-0!ds. n.iltimore, M 1.. Pehraary 10. — With tlio opening of the local season only about si weeks :iv:iy. horsemen iu this s.iiiiui uc already stirring :it ■ Uveiy rate am! are making active preparations far their 1»17 campaign, which will be aahered la April 2 at Howie sad win tin ii go to Havre lie Grace anal limlico. Pales* :;11 signs fail the Southern Maryland trail; is in for a banner meeting. Horses in abandonee are already in light and the stabling facilities of the track will be taxed to their utmost. Forty horses or more have wintered at Rowie and will 1:.- fit to raee from the first tap of the hell. A strong contingent also is getting ready at the tracks la the vieinity of Baltiasore, being housed at [leaning. Ten carloads of horses will lie nhlpas d direct to Bowie at the close of the New oilcans meeting and nor will cone- from Havana. The Kentucky Stable •rill ship twenty-five head to Rowie this month so that by the time opening day rolls around there Will be no lack of seasoned racing timber with which to start the mrrtiax The stables which have wintered at Penning are not so far Bhang as usual owing to the hard winter. hat the track is in pretty fair condition now and ham I are g oing along three-eighths in -13 or 45 every day. There will lie plenty of time liy April 1 to get the Bvaaiag contingent in first-class racing i mill ill— The track at Howie is in fine order and the horses tiiat have been wintering there have been able to pat la seme good work. The little contingent at the ; nth-nuns Driving lark is perhaps the farthest along and they will be heard from early. gn KcBrkles Promising Youngsters. T Wille McPride baa his stable at the Driving Park, and they are in fine condition. His string is headed by the good three-rear-old h probate, which showed so well on the Maryland tracks last fall. Etepro bate has grown into a strong, well-finished colt, and will be a dangerous horse at Howie from the start. I.esides H probate, McHride lias seven two-year oils which are shaping up finely. A bay colt by Sain is a fine looker and will come to hand early. An imported filly, a sister to Crimper, which was purchased at the Duryeu sale at Saratoga list year. is particularly well thought of by her own- r. A racy leaking colt by P.allot. a black colt by Pick Fhiiiell. an imported colt by Maintenon M:d two grand-looking fillies, one by Sapid Water and the other by Chmtanunda. make up the Mc-Itridc two-year-old string, which he will bring to Bowie. Contrary to his usual custom. P.illy Carth will rue nothing early this year. For. la! these many years the Sage of Albemarle has been coming up from Charlottesville to Penning while the snow-was on the ground and at the Washington track has sharpened up a string of youngsters which, year after year, cirri, d off the early plums as l-gularly as the seasons rolled around. Will Train for the Parr Stable. This year the amiable Virginian will be conspicuous by his absence, lie will race nothing at Howie or Havre de Grace and will ship direct irom Charlottesville to limlico. This year the veteran trainer has sfaraed a contract to handle exclusively the table of colonel Hal Iarr of Haltimore. The larr string is expected to cat a considerable figure in the years turf doings. Crimper, the colt which showed Ha much speed in his races last year, is expected to be the bright particular star of the band. The call has wintered will and. b ing thoroaghly acclimated, should improve on his ■ noa lag of i.. i car. Another that Colonel larr is counting on is Nebraska, which, with three star shoot yearlings, he bought last fall ef .John E. Madden lor .Sl.MK. Nebraska has develop d finely during the winter aad i* save to lie a clinker among this seasons three-.m ai-old .. Colonel larr has ten two-year-olds of i. at pr..iiii ■■■-. One of the Star Shoot yearlings is said to be the pick of the basket. .done! larr will be well represented over the sticks, the VCteraa Shannon River heading the jump lag brigade. Paddy Pong Legs, which Colonel larr • ght of bail Hera Im- 0,000 last fall, will be rheated oer the sticks. Willie Allen, as usual, will pil.it the larr .jumpers. Lewis GaHh wil have charge of his fathers horses this yiwir anil will have a mixed stable of nheat twenty head, which he is already preparing at Beaming tor tic Howie meeting. Alter the Maryland meetings the stable will be taken to Canada. Tight booae-hted two-year eida by Celt. Sea King uad Glorifier are in the Garth string. Benning Horsemen Prepare for Bowie. All the liors. men now at Penning are getting ninething ready for tl pining at l.owie. Albert Simons has twenty of the Whitney string at Washington, among them fifteen two-year olds. The older brigade, headed by ltromo. is being pointed fog the Southern Maryland meeting. Hroino is in line health and is expected to carry off all the 1 is nd leaps. W. I*. Hurch has Pltimatum. Crank. Alvord -i ml nine two year-olds, the propetry of Samuel Ross, !•. R. Hitchcock and W. C. Kustis. in train ing. I ltiniatnm has wintered finely and is being pointed for Howh. W. Shields has Top o th Morning and Judge Wingfielil iu charge and will have them both ready to race when the naaaea opens. Judge Wingfielil. after showing mm h promise as a two-year-old last year, a«eat off and did not live up to his early Jfa toff*. This year, however, he is coming out iu grand condition and will be heard from. Dr. Tyree has twenty head at Helming, including eight two-year-olds. Jjr. Lacrlck has charge of the stable this year and will have the horses ready for nil early Start. The pick of the two -year-olds is a c.dt by Sweep. This colt outworked everything at Washington iu his yearling trials. McLean Has Sixteen Two-Year-Olds. E. P. McLean has sixteen two-year-olds at Ben-ning besides his junipers. The two -year olds were bought of Mrs. i.i iugsteii and are |. her stallions. liiey will probably not gel an early start. The AlcLctm stable was trained last year by Lewis Carth. but this season they are in charge of Henry Craven, who trained for the late Col. Robert Ne- i!le yens ago. Freddie Williams is under contract to ride the atcLeaa jumpers. Richard F. Carman has twenty-five head at Washington and he will Ik? xvcll represented at Rowie. lie has eight or nine two-year-olds of fair promise. Mr. Carman has Imught a farm at Sandy Springs, lid., adjoining the property of Senator Rlair Lee. and will conduct his breeding operations there. He has thr ■• two-year-olds by his stallion. The Turk, at Reuning, but they are a little uinn r size. I*. Sheridan will have Rack Ray and four or five others ready for Howie. Karl Truman has a couple of fine-looking two-year-old fillies by lldriin, which he intends to start at Howie. TheaC fillies can ruu some.
