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ABUNDANCE OF HORSES FOR BOWIE. Many Now There, With Big Strings Coming from Other Training Grounds. By George B. Morris. Washington, P. C. March 5. — As fine a collection of thoroughbreds as has ever faced a barrier will be seen under colors during the spring meeting at the Bowie race track, which opens on April 2. The meeting will last for twelve days and incidentally ushers in the racing season in Maryland. During the past few weeks Bowie has been the scene of much activity. A large number of the stables which were campaigned at New Orleans have already reached the course, where they will be rested up for the opening day, while the horses, almost an even hundred, which wintered at the course, are receiving some light preparation for racing. There will be plenty of racing material on hand for the Bowie meeting. In fact, the stabling capacity has already been somewhat imposed upon by owners who have already made their reservations. and those who have been unable to get quarters at the track will have to seek some outside accommodations. In addition to the horses that winter at Howie by Monday there will ! e more than two hundred horses on the track, which were raced at New Orleans, while as many more will be shipped to the track at the close of the present meeting in Cuba. Several large stables are Ml at the old Pinning course and will be shipped over to Bowie within the next day or two. Among these will be twenty of the string of Harry Payne Whitney, which Albert Simons is training; a number of the Dr. J. S. Tyree racers; those of Paul Powers, in charge of the veteran trainer Willie Shields; R. F. Carmens string and many others. Today twenty-five imported racers, owned by Grant Hugh Browne, in charge of trainer "Pug" McDaniel. will be shipped from their winter quarters at Charleston, S. C. to the Bowie track. The large stable of the Kentucky Stable will also be shipped to the course today from Lexington. Bill Oliver has arrived from his New Jersey farm with a stable of ten thoroughbreds. The band is headed by the veteran Kcwessa. the seven-year-old son of MeGee — Sanfara. which, according to his owner and from his looks, wintered like a two-year-old. Kewessa is looking as fit as any horse oil the grounds and as he usually runs his best • races in the spring. Oliver is confident that he will get his share of the money during the Bowie meeting.
