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BENNING STAKES TO BE RUN AT BOWIE. Three Most Popular Races of Washington Jockey Club to Be Revived Next Fall. Baltimore, Md.. April 17. -The director! of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association have i!i id d to bring back into existence in the fall the thee most popular of the Washington Jockey Clubs autumnal stakes, races which up to Pans, were run at Penning track, in the District of Columbia, to whose dates, spring and fall. Prince Georges Park at Rowie. baa fallen heir. The races in question arc the Dixie and Maximum Stakes and the Washington Cup. The Dixie, which ill the hoydey of Benning was an affair at one mile and a half, for three-year-old fiUies, will be remembered as a race of one aide and a half, for three-year-old:, of both sexes. The Washington Cap, formerly a gallop of two miles and a quarter, lor three-year-olds and ever, will ! ■• revived as a race of one mile and thr •■ quarters for three-year-olds ami over. The Maximum will be renewed at two mile-, its former di lam- having b en three miles. Besides these features, which win hare added money values of from ,208 to ,580 each, Bowie will have in t f dl. a siries of two year-old staki I, the names of which have not yet been select d, at •iv en-eighths, one mile, and one mile and a sixteenth. These will pay from ,000 to ,500 each in added stouey. The considerable distance ace for two year olds has provea tremendouslj popular al Laurel and Pimlieo. It was in such races at these Maryland tracks that Spur. Dodge, rrankUa and Colonel Vcniii ■• proved two seasons buck, that they wire long distance runners of merit. And last fall at Bowie, it will be remembered, the two-yeur-oM Bondage, a mm of Ogden ■"afar Atalanta, astonished crowds of 4.000 and 5,000 by defeating Bnyberrj Caudle and Hauberk ill races of one mile and one mile and a sixteenth respectively, on the second us! day of the closing of the November meeting. These events are enthusiastlcaUy supported by horsemen. arho have found that training for them is not nearly so hard on young horses as training for the five-and-a-half furlongs and three-quarters sprints. The purpose of the Southern Maryland Assoc!* tlon in reviving the old Beaming features and instituting tins.- new stakes for two-year olds is to n-oiiiage the production of the t.p" of thnraugfabred likely to prove sirviceaide to the government as stock horses at remount stations. The government will need 3,000 or 4.000 thoroughbred BtalUoas of the l»st types for military horse sins in the m xt four or fire years.
