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OVER 00,000 IN PRIZES o Bowie Management Makes Generous Provision for Horsemen. 4 Some Good Racers to Be Seen at Trinco George Park Expect Track to Be Faster Than Ever. BALTIMORE, Md., October 27. The program of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association for the coming November race meeting at Prince George Park, Bowie, provides to- the distribution among the owners of the horses that will compete of somewhat more than 00,000. The meeting will be signalized by the running of the Thanksgiving Handicap, with ,C00 added, and the Southern Maryland Handicap, ,500 added, both for three-year-olds and over, and the ,500 Endurance Race, a gallop of one mile for two-year-olds exclusively. James F. OHara and his associates in the management of the plant are considering a suggestion that they offer another special r.ico for three-year-olds and over at one ndlc and a half, one mile and three-quarters or one mile and seven-eighths, horses three years old and over to compete, but they have not come to a definite decision. The Thanksgiving Handicap was a gallop of one mile and three-sixteenths last fall and its winner was Bunga Buck, a stout little son of Vulcain, which defeated Slippery Elm, Tippity Witchet and Gnome after a hard and exciting drive through the homestretch.. This year the Thanksgiving Handicap will be a gallop of one mile and a quarter. Prospective starters are Bunga Buck, which has been going famously in Maryland this fall, and Hephaistos, another stout little son of "Vulcain, which won the ,000 Empire City Derby at Yonkers in July and recently defeated Emotion, Horologe and Modo in the ,000 New Rochelle Handicap at the Empire City Racing Associations course. But the coming Thanksgiving Handicap will not by any means be an affair between these sons of Vulcain. Prince James, the winner of six straight races in New York, in one of which, the Aqueduct Handicap, a 0,000 race of one mile and five-sixteenths, he defeated Captain Alcock, Sedgefield, Bon Homme and Mad Hatter and established a new track record of 2:11, has been provided with stabling for the Bowie meeting and he is the sort of horse that will run his best race over a deeply cushioned track. And there will be five or six other top sawyers going over from Pimlico, with the son of King James and Lacona, which today looks as good as any matured horse in training. Bowie begins the season of big racing in the East each April and ends it in November. The impending meeting of eleven days will begin on November 18 and end Thanksgiving, which this year will fall on November 30. The Pimlico meeting will attract from New York and Kentucky many of the first-class horses of various ages still in training. A number of these will race at Bowie. Some seven or eight hundred seasoned campaigners will be available for the final meeting in the East. Practically all the Bowie stabling is bespoken already. The interval between the finish at Pimlico and the beginning at Bowie will give campaigners that will have been hard at it through October and early November a breathing spell, for which they will be grateful. Great improvement was wrought last year in the condition of Bowie track and a bigger change for the better has been effected through the summer past. Last falls long drought handicapped superintendent Richard Pending in his constructive work. The frequent rainy spells of the last summer have aided to such an extent as to convert a course over which it used to take a first-class horse one minute and forty-one seconds to get a mile into a "thirty-eight and a hair or "thirty-nine" track.
