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REGARDING THE BOWIE MEETING. Racing Did Not Come Up to Expectations — Small Fields Despite Plenty of Horses. I.y J. B. JofferyL Washington. D. .. April 10.-Yesterday the scene of racing in Maryland shifted from Howie to the course of the Harford Agricultural and breeders Association at Havre de Grace, where a thirteen-day meeting was inaugurated. The Bowie meeting was a huge success financially, but the quality of the racing itself did not come up to expectations, principally because of an apparent indisposition ou the part of the horsemen to properly fill the races provided. Small fields predominated, especially for the races :t one mile and over. While adverse track conditions may, in some measure, account for the paucity of entries with which Bating Secretary Joseph McLeaaaa has had to contend, it does seem as if with a thousand hors.s on hand there should lave been keener competition for the purses. it is not improbable that next spring a greater proportion of shorter llleteafr races will be programed with the idea that the cards will be better filled than has been the case this year. Tie Havre de Brace book is built more along such lines and it is expected that the fields will be much heavier at that track and that the hors--s which have been having things their own way at Howie will be relegated to the rear to a great degree. Many of the bigger stables will come into action at Havre de Brace and the horses from the winter tracks will find it much more difficult to win there than has been the case at Bowie. Those from New Orleans Showed Best. It is iatereatlag to note that during the first ten days of the Howie meeting, thirty -three of the parses were won bj barsea that had raced at New Orleans and Hot Springs, nine went to the credit of horses that had raced at Havana and two to barsea shipped east from Tijuana, leaving twenty -mx purses that were won by horses that had not raced during the winter. Leaving the two year -oids out of the question, the Bewhl aarrtiag introduced no new racing timber of any particular note with the possible exception of Great Hugh Brownes King Herod, a three-year old son of the unbeaten Colin Aeolat. which won his only Iwo starts at the season in a manner suggesting that he may amount to something as a race bar Ml. In both races his opposition was decidedly mediocre, so it cannot yet be said that he has come up to the high expectations entertained of him by iiis owner, who regards him as a high-class race horse. In his first race hi- showed much greenness and did not get down to baadaeaa until the race was al most over, but in his second effort he ran prominently from the start and finished like a lion. He races like a stayer and his owner has therefore decided to give him a chance at the Kentucky Derby if he continues to train on satisfactorily. King Herod was bred in Knglaia! and was brought to this country last season liy his present owner. He wiatered at fhartestea, s. c. arlth the division of the Browne stable that former jockey ! . B. lluJdinl McDnnicl is training. Tippity Witchet Bc.-t Among Juveniles. Of the two year olds shown Miring the meeting. Tippity Witchet. winner of the opening race of the eastern season iu the colors oi his breeder. Harry iayne Whitney, is regarded as possibly the best. It is intimated that the divTson of the Whitney stable handled by Allicrt Simons oomaiiis several other promising juveniles that will be shown from time to time aa the season progresses. || U well understood, how.vt r. that .lames Uowe. manager of Mr. Whitneys racing interests, is himself dovelop-iag at Breokdak* Farm in New Jersey, the real juvenih star- of the Whitney establishment. ft aether two -year-old that has raced with distinction at Bowie is the Mirasol fltahetl Fan fan. a comely daughter of the great Fitz Herbert Spectrum, bred in Frame by I larence H. Ma« kay. She wiin iMith of her Howie starts in handsome fashion :,iid evidently is above the ordinary. Laud Lubber, which ran second to Tippity Witchet on the opening day, carried the colors of Gnat Hugh Brewae to victory in his succeeding start and maybe a fair sort. He. too. is an imported colt. No i-l anges or improvements are contemplated at Low ie hi the immediate future. It had been suggest d in some quarters that a sleepl chase course might soon be constructed, but the management has no present inclinations in that direction. It is thought that steeplechase races could let be satisfactorily filled so early in the season as early April. Officials Scatter After Meeting. There was a scattering of the Howie official staff at the close of the meeting. Presiding steward E. C. Smith has returned to Massachusetts. ■There he epeat the winter, pending th" opening of the Pimlico meeting, a fortnight hence. Presiding Jadge I is.pli A. Murphy has gone to his h e at St. Louis for an indefinite period. Pacing Socro tary Joseph McLennan will make a trip to Kentucky in the interest of the stakes of various Canadian racing clubs and will return to Maryland for the Pimlico meeting, with which he is to be officially connect. -d. as usual Starter Dade will likewise enjoy a respite until the Pimlico meeting, as James Milton will send th. fields away at Havre de Grace. Archie Chaaaer baa received glowing reports from Kentucky regardiag a yearling colt by his useful and consistent old campaigner Caugh Hill — Katv of the West, dam of the noted Ilermis. Caugh Hill is now doing stud duty at Hollywood Farm, in the Blue Crass country near Lexington. Kgmont, after an extended lapse from his accustomed good form, showed a v. inning effort at P.owie a few days ago in the colors of .1. Phillips, who acquired this once speedy horse last fall, when la-was in anything but ii; a promising condition. The horse has improved wonderfully in disposition and appearance aa a result of the application of proper methods of handling him, and bids fair to reward his new owner well for the attention bestowed upon him. The friends of the veteran trainer William Cahill will regret to team that he has had a recurrence of tiie serious sickness with which lie was afflicted last year.
