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EXCELLENT MATERIAL FOR BOWIE MEETING. Almost Every One of 350 Horses Wintering in Maryland Ready for Racing. Bnlthaare, Mil., March Ts. — If the horsemen who have been racing at Havana. New Orleans. Juarez and Hot Spring* imagine that they are going to mate a grand slam at Bowie during the first two weeks of April with their winter seasoned Campaigners, they will discover their mistake quickly. Among tin- H.",| horses of various ages that have Wintered at the tracks absat Havre de Grace, V.ash-ington. Baltimore and Laurel, there are less than two dozen that will not be ready for the color* April 1. The whiter has been rough hereabouts, especially in February and early in March. Oftener than once the trainers at Washington have found the old Benning course frozen hard. It is rare, indeed, that the light, porous soil of the Kenning course freezes as often as aUCU in the course of a winter. Hut invariably there has been a thaw iu the course ,,f the day following the freeze, and the horses have miss:-d no work. They are not as hard and fit as they vviil Ix- when they assemble at Pimlico after the Howie and Havre d.- Jrace meetings, but. Without respect to age. they will be ready for battles with the winter-seasoned horses at the moderate distances that will mark Howie racing. Bowis Meeting Beginning of Eastern Racing. The Howie meeting, which will usher in the eastern racing season, will begin on April 1? and continue to April 14. Every horse stabling at H lining now. barring thirty or forty jumpers, will take part in it. and so will the horses of stables that have put in the cold months at the private training place* scattered through Maryland. Virginia, southern Pennsylvania ami New Jersey. The stables of greatest pnwalsnsx* at Helming that are readying up far Howie, belong to Kdwurd Beale .McLean of Washington: Harry Payne Whitney of New York; Samuel Baas and .1. S. Tyree of Washington: L. S. Smith and ;. A. Muller of Philadelphia: Joseph B. Davhl of New York; Paul Powers. William Shields. Lewis Garth, Captain C. K. Rockwell. C. S. A., retired, J. II. Streett, Q. K. Skinker and Clarence h. Mnfhnj of New York: Colonel I. M. Parr of Baltimore: leva Murphy and Herbert L. Pratt «»f New-York; Kiehnrd P. Carman. W.lliam Bheedy and Wilfrid Viau of Montreal; Archibald Harklic ot Philadelphia and W. 1. Hurch. Among the horse of mature years at Helming of which something will be heard at Howie and elsewhere in .Maryland are: Clapperbill and Broino of the Whitney string: Kingly. Flittergold. Fenmouse. King Neptune. Hilly McGee, Celto, Carbide. Achievement. Trial by Jury, Sheer Face. Tudor King, Jack Carl. Tiie Decision. Hrooks and Holiday. Some of the three -year -olds of promise at the old Washington Jockey Club track are Honnie Witch, Ultimatum. Crank, Alvord, Sunflash, Sea Cull and Napoleon. Numerous Two-Yea.r-01ds at Benning. Two-year-olds are more nunerous at Benning than the representatives of any other class of runners, and they figure to have a right royal time at Howie. The new rule of the Jockey Club. Which bars youngsters that have participated in racing before the first of April from events decided ou Jockey Club tracks until they shall have attained their third year gives the youngsters that have wintered about Washington and in the north generally something of an edge on the two-year-old racing. Helming two-year-olds, probably, are fitter than the youngsters that will come down from New York, and there are so few two year olds that will come up from the south that have not disqualified themselves from racing at Bowie, by violating the Jockey Clubs rule, the competition of the Hot Springs and New Orleans contingents will be negligible. Harry Payne Whitney, who for a half doz n rears Wintered his second string at Norfolk, has more twa-yenr aids at Benning than any other prominent owner. There are eighteen youngsters in the baud. Albert Simons is handling for the owner of Brook-dale Stud, and the feed box tip from the Washington track is that these are the most forward two year olds hereabouts. Hut W. P. Hurch and Max Smart are training likely bands for Bamuel Ho-s and other Washington sportsmen, most of them importations fr abroad. laigene Leigh has a string of fifteen belonging to Mr. McLean. Dr. B. I!. Larries has eight or ten belonging to Br. J. S. Tyree. and Lewis Garth has a half dozen or more of his own. None of these trainers has been altogether idle, so one may predict with safety that Simons will not have a dean sweep at Howie.
