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GOVERNORS DAY AT BOWIE Slippery Elm Meets Defeat in Principal Race of the Day Jockey Rodriguez Has Field Day DayRiding Riding Four of the Seven SevenWinners Winners POWIE Mil April C Today was Governors Day at Howie and a box was especially decorated for the Maryland executive and while he was unable to attend a large number of the state sen ¬ ators were on hand and enjoyed the afternoons sport The track had dried out somewhat but still remained slow while the weather was quite an improvement over that of the day before beforeThe The main event of the day was the Covernor Kithie Handicap at six and a half furlongs which brought out some speedy horses Slipperv Kim being the top weight atllJl pounds The running of the race however found the more lightly weighted Manoevre in front at the finish a scant neck before Slippery Kim The latter was outpaced while going down the bickstretch but made up ground gamely in the stretch and fin ¬ ished wearing Manoevre down poor riding and his heavy impost over a difficult track belli re ¬ sponsible for his defeat Arrah Co On quit badly after leading for a short distance distanceJockey Jockey Kotlriguez had a field day winning four races with Cobalt Iiss Satana Manoevre and AVilldo AVilldoForm Form followers received a setback in the first race for twoyearolds when S A Cloptons Kepeat failed ffise re AuntDMit at lucrative odds took up the running early and held on gamely to the end Omer K ran forwardly throughout Kepeat met much interference but finished a fast going third thirdCobalt Cobalt Lass the popular choice acconnled for the second race in handy fashion She moved to tin front on the back stretch and was never seriously threatened thereafter Who Cares caught Mose tiring in tin stretch and disposed of him and easily took second place Mose showed the most early speed but tired in the fintil racing racingSatana Satana with a fine display of sliced shot to the front at the start of the third race and held sway throughout The Lamb away flatfooted made up ground steadily but the effort told and although going fasest of all at tin end he could not catch the flying leader Hetsinda easily held third platu safe from Peccant which came from far back in the stretch stretchDOUBLE DOUBLE FOR PELICAN STABLE STABLEHelle Helle Cohorts running right back to her last race again made a dmlde for the Pelican Stable Trainer Murphy sent a fast horse to the post and she shook off all contention drawing away easily when momentarily threatened by Mistress Tolly which came frim far back in the last quarter Cain de Cause ran prominently and tired when the pinch came but held the short end of the purse purseKodrigue5 Kodrigue5 made it four for the day in the sixth when he brought Willdo up with a well timed rush in the first long distance race of the meeting at one and a quarter miles to win from Austral the favorite and Yorkist Austral had no excuses and easily disposed of Yorkist in the final quarter quarterS S rouse the racer which broke down during tin last meeting at Hot Springs has been shipped here to S A Clnpton who will send him to tin Devers Farm at Havre de Crace to be turned out outThere There are fiftysix horses of the Koss estab ¬ lishment at Laurel under the care of trainer nv Hedwcll Mike Lynch has been ther schooling the twoyearolds for the past nth The three yearolds in this stable have all grown and filled out during the winter and trainer Hedwell reports that he did not have a sick horse horseThe The purses tomorrow will be increased to the extent of ti which will go to the horse finish ¬ ing fourth in the different races in addition to the S10 which is scheduled for the fourth horse run ¬ ups being the contributing cause of the increase increaseThe The hallermeu were busy after the fifth race Claims were lodged for three of the starters in that race but only Mistress Iolly changed hands C W Forman secured her for SJOd Helle Koberts was again retained by the Ielican Stable for SLtKtl and J Arthur retained Cain de Canst for 1010 1010The The condition books for the last six days of the Howie racing and first eight days of the coming Havre de Craee meeting were distributed by sec retarv Joseph Mclxnnan 1 T West arrived from New Orleans with the plater Tippo Sahib yesterday
