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BOWIES AMBITIOUS PLANS Two Long Distance Stakes to Be Featured at Prince George Park During Autumn Meeting. v. BALTIMORE, Md., October 24. The autumn racing at Prince George Park, Bowie of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association will be marked by the running of two long-distance stake races, oue at one mile and five-eighths, the other at a mile and seven-eighths. This information was given out the other day by General Manager James F. Ollara, who said at the time that the conditions of the prospective stakes would be announced as soon as possible. The values of the two longdistance races also will be fixed later on. They will be sufficiently attractive to bring to Bowie the best horses at long-distance racing that will le still in training after the finish of the Maryland Jockey Clubs November meeting at Pinilico. There should be plenty of staying horses in Maryland this fall. The Maryland Jockey Clubs two 0,000 specials, the Bowie Cup, a gallop of one mile and a half, and the Pimlico Cup, at two miles and a quarter, will bring this way the best long-distance muners of Kentucky and New York racing, Racing in Kentucky and New York will end on the 29th of October, the Kentucky fall season liaving begun considerably earlier than usual. The Maryland meetings at Pimlico and Bowie will have no competition. The Bowie fall meeting, -which will wind up racing in the east for 1921, will begin on November 15, two days after the horses will have finished at Pimlico, and continue through to November 20 eleven dnys in all. The finish at Bowie will synchronize with the beginning of racing at the winter courses of Jefferson Park, New Orleans, Oriental Park, Havana, and Tijuana, Mexico. The Southern Maryland Agricultural Association inaugurates and finishes the seasons of eastern racing regularly, Prince George Park having taken the place in the eastern scheme of racing that once belonged to Benning and the,.-old Washington Jockey Club. OVER 00,000 FOR HORSEMEN. The eleven days racing at Bowie will be marked by. the distribution among owners of the participating horses of a matter of 00,000 or more. The program lias not yet been made up. But the general scheme of past meetings will be followed, save that purses will be increased. The Bowie management will stage another race for horses owned in the army and ridden by officers In uniform, these races having proved popular features of Prince George Park sport in the past. The distance of i the military race has not been determined. That will be left to the election of the Remouut Service, which will have charge of the race. It is probable, however, that the distance will be fixed at one mile and a quarter. The army race on the fiat at Belmont Park in September was an affair of one mile and three-quarters and it developed one of the best contests of the Westchester Associations fall meeting. The advantage of fixing long distances for these army races is that long distance racing brings into competition steeplechasers that would not compete at one mile and a sixteenth, or one mile, or seven-eighths. The winner and the contender in the Belmont Park army race Courteous and Chester II. both are cross-country horses that had been trained to go far. The stabling capacity of Prince George Park has been materially increased since last spring and superintendent Richard Pending has continued his work of rendering uniform the texture of the going from one end of the track to the other. Getting an even texture, as regards footing at Prince George Park, has been difficult because the mile course, with its seven-eighths starting chute, lies on a piece oC ground that shows three geological strata. In the backstretch the Bowie course is a "thirty-eight" course. In the turns and through the homestretch is is a forty-four" course. This unusual condition accounts for the fact that races of seven -eighths and shorter distances are much faster than are races of one mile and over.
