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j i HORSES NOW IN TRAINING AT BOWIE Some in the Griffith, Gardner and Forman Stables Weli Advanced in Their Condition. BALTfMOBE, Md.. March IB. Prahanay the most forward horses now at the Bowie track m areaara-lloo fir the Impending spring meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, which v. ill begin on the 1st of April, to ran two weeks. are in the stables ,,f .1. Kdwiu Griffith, i. W. Cm man ami William Gardner. Bowie going lias been bail for some time. There has been mii-h -now and some iee. but at intervals it has been in -11 ii condition tbnt work was peesibte, and on the days when ii was not the trainers of the-., establishments, Harry Kin-. William Short and George Keigler, resorted to the public roads. The roads of Prince George County. Maryland, iii which Bowie track lies, are dandy. Generally they are fit for galloping horse-. The horses Bites is preparing for the racing of the- first week of the Southern Maryland meeting are Mormon Elder, Amackassia, Ve 1... Griffwood, Katherine Harlan. Viririnia I.. ami Senator Broderick. Oae or two of these are t.. be -ehooleil for steepleehasillK later on. but t hey will race first 0:1 the flat. Mormon Elder, Amae kassin. Veto and Virginia I... the last named a filly that wcin a time or two in Maryland last spring. 1 in tee be the most forward of the bailel. They are moseUng up fast and will In. ready io show some speed as BOOO as the track beeomi-s sa fe enough for regular galloping. Waakeag, Lard Herbert. Peerless One. Ballad and Ballast appear the fittest of tin- -trine. Short is training for Parmaa. Pormaa was away in New Orleans all winter. These veteran campaigners have had a winteu- rest for the first time in many years, and they appear to be gratefal for i:. I.al- l.nl. a bane of ii-e-fiii class when the going suits, is jroiiic to win diirine. the first week of I he Bowie meeting, nal — the Prince George Park trainers 11 i-s their gaesa. The soft irac-k will suit his laci feet. He will not roeeiiire more than a couple of week- galloping. Lord Herbert, a frequent winner at Bowie last spring, is carrying plenty of lie -a. but i; i- flesh e,f supple, rubberlike .pialiiv . Malls ■ -:M +*» **,-*»« lo- i- full of giogMT. Hauberk, King Herod and s;. i iientin are in the Iormaii stable-, but they do mil ■appear to be : far adv. need as «re Shorts other oat hoiiuds. If. however, Kim; Herod stands he ought to make .1 Useful -printer m XI l|wng lie- is a son of Colin and Aeolat and has plenty of Speed. George Eeigler will he remembered as the onetime trainer of the stable of Frank Nolan of Albany. New York. He trained Old Koeni;;. Inia 1 .in. ami Sir John Johnson with meat skill and sacee-s 101 a number f years. He- has been ..11 the job all wiim r. Eeigler b dieves that Facie* Lassie and James A. Sheridan will be ready for the Cohan some time- in the curse of the first week cef the Bowie meeting, and he is fairly confident Hat no t wo-year-olcl- that wintered in these parts will have anything as regards condition on bis three youngster*, which an1 sons of Dalbonstc, Aeronaut ami 1 :-i 1 Km k Sand. Gardner, Zeigleia b — . races under the assasned name "Crown Stable." Gardner was at Bowie last week. a
