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THEYRE OFF IN MARYLAND Eastern Racing Season Begins at Prince George Park Today Winter Campaigners Prominent Prominenton on Opening Day Program Plenty Horses and Riders BOWIE Md March 31 If the weather is as fitting tomorrow as it is today the opening of the Maryland racing season at Bowie will be ushered in under most pleasing auspices Xothing is wanting to make it a gala opening for everything is in readiness and the program is one that the club may Well be proud of Every race is well filled due possibly to the purses being of hijh value There is no purse less than 1 brought about by the thenrplus nrplus runup i ley held over from the last day dayof of the fall meeting The Inaugural Handicap will be worth 1417 to the winner and every winner will get a trifle more than 1000 1000At At present there are li i horses stabled on the rrounds besides those that will be brought in from t lie Benning course where there are lO more many of them ready to race This insures plenty of racing material for the meeng and good fields are almost certain throughout the thirteen days scheduled scheduledThere There was great rejoicing here when it was learned that the Maryland senate had passed the Burke racing commission bill by a vote of 17 to 10 which means the salvation of the sport in this state stateHorses Horses from Xew Orleans predominate in most of the races for the first day excepting in the twoyearold dash nil of which are strangers to racing patrons Some of these are said to be fair youngsters Tan Son and Attorney being especially mentioned by horsemen who wintered at Benning as being better than the average averagePlenty Plenty of riders are on hand for the opening of the season the majority coming from Xew Orleans To these will be added Sande Xolan and Wessler all under contract to Commander J K L Boss BossAs As usual the crowd of owners and trainers had their spring gatherings swapping hardluck stories and experiences at Xew Orleans and Havana HavanaS S A Clopton arrived here yesterday from Hot Springs where he went to see Albert Simons who was taken there from Xew Orleans in poor health Simons improved condition since his arrival at Hot Springs has been almost phenomenal according to lopton He is now able to get out in the open and in fact he is getting well so rapidly that it will not be surprising to see him in harness again when summer comes around aroundJames James Bowe came in from Brookdale Kami X J last night to look after the Whitney business in this section All the horses are now in charge of Clopton and will probably remain with him until such time that Simons can get back to work workII II S Polk fresh from Havana in sneaking of the apprentices and other riders that wintered in Cuba believes that both Barnes and Carmody will ride well in this country but this cannot be proved according to his opinion until the acid test has been given them meaning that they will have to show their ability with the good riders they will meet when in the east and Kentucky Polk is con lident that E Kator will develop into a good rider as did his brother L Fator who was brought to the front by Polk PolkSPEEDY SPEEDY ARNOLD DOWN WITH FEVER FEVERC C A Applegates Arnold which was one of the most popular racers at Xew Orleans developed car fever en route froni the Crescent City and will not be raced here his trainer L J Itcinhcimcr having decided to ship him to Jamaica and to prepare him for the Mctro olitan season seasonBefore Before departing from Xew Orleans J Coburn purchased Oincr K which earned brackets in his last start in the Crescent City CityHarry Harry Tuna bought Machine Gunner at private Mle from G L Blackford Both youngsters will be prepared for their future engagements by trainer C Buxton W BuxtonW Knapp has changed his mind regarding giving up riding and reported this morning to trainer Ilenrv Mrl anicl of the B L Gerry stable at Pimlico PimlicoPaul Paul Valentine a leading horse owner and a breeder III the Argentine is a visitor visitorThe The gelding Buck Shot while being exercised this morning fell broke his leg and was destroyed destroyedapt apt II C Biinhury the wellknown Texas owner who raced a small but select string at Xew Orleans is making his initial appearance in east ¬ ern racing circles circlesB B A Jones C J Broekmiller J L Solomon G 11 Blackford and W II Fizer are among the prominent western turfmen whose colors will be vecn for the first time at the Prince George track trackAn An epidemic ° f f ver has attacked many of the horses quartered here but it is now subsiding Tenons Bon Swirl and Goldcrest Boy which suf ¬ fered the most an now well on the road to re rnvcry rnvcryFrank Frank P Capra will look after the engagements of jockeys Joe Bodrignez and apprentice Ilenpel during the Maryland racing season seasonThe The following jockeys will be seen under silks dnrjns the Bowie meeting F Coltiletti J Itodri guez T Parrlngton K Haynes C Ponce B Pauley V Ohert F Murphy C Gilbert It Ito jnanelU 1 Hanover F Hunt E Fator J Wil ¬ liams J Whittington J Burke G Walls and J Xieller A XiellerA I Dayton is an arrival from Cuba with Zoic Star Itwilm and Bill McCloy Jockey F Hunt accompanied the stable stableFrank Frank A Keegan has been engaged as superin ¬ tendent of construction at the Boss farms where extensive building is now in progress progressThe The following foals are reported from the J K L Boss farms brown filly by Kitzwllliam The Lark chestnut filly by Spanish Prince Wheat car carB B J Walden will Inuisfer the Bowling Brook horses at Middlebur to Havre de Grace April 10 10M M Daly has shipped Mrs W A Jeffords horses to Lexington to prepare the crack colt Golden Broom for the Kentucky Derby DerbyT T J inward1 is a recent arrival from Canada fl d will stay through the Maryland season
