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BUSY SCENES AT BOWIE About 300 Horses Expected This Week from New Orleans 3Ionlfort Jones Stable of Stars to Arrive ArriveShortly Shortly lleparation to llace on Flat Flatfor for J E Daris BOWIE Md March 21 This is a busy week at Prince Georges Park where on April 2 the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association will inaugurate the spring racing season seasonThe The spring meeting of the Jefferson Parish Fair Association having come to a finish with the running of a 10000 Derby that was un ¬ expectedly won by the unconsidered Amolc there will be an influx of thoroughly season ¬ ed horses from the South SouthSpecial Special trains are expected today and Sat ¬ urday and track superintendent Richard Pending has been busy since Sunday bed ¬ ding stalls He does not know just what horses will be coming from New Orleans but he has made preparation for the quartering of some three hundred hundredProbably Probably thesa 300 racers will dominate the spring sport of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association They will at least be further advanced in condition than most of the horses that have wintered in these parts partsThe The strongest stable that will participate in the impending meeting will report Friday or Saturday when twentylive of the stable of fifty of Montfort Jones arrive from Vir ¬ ginia The Jones Stable one of the most powerful in the United States put in the winter at B B Jones farm in Clarke County Virginia now the home of Sir Barton and the B B Jones stud studThe The ageirt of the Jones Stable was at Bowie Sunday in search of more stalls which he did not get there being none avail ¬ able He said that he did not know what horses Kay Spcnce would bring over be Continued on third page BUSY SCENES AT BOWIE Continued from first page yond Oui Oui Miss Joy Surf Rider and Pegrasus but that practically all of the bit establishment are well advanced advancedMiss Miss Joy the most successful twoyear old filly of 1921 was a disappointment hist year She never seemed to show the speed that marked her twoyearold racing But she is training kindly now and ought to show something at Bowie Oui Ouis racing at Bowie will be part of her preparation for the Pimlico Kentucky and Latonia Oaks She was withheld from the Preakness and Kentucky Derby to be trained exclusively for races for horses of her own sex sexThe The horses of Joseph E Davis string Matt Brady is training at the old Benning course of the District of Columbia that will be ready for Bowie are Reparation Oran The Sphinx and Sagacious and a twoyearold called Hagerness These at any rate are the farthest advanced of the Davis thorough ¬ breds They have been galloping pretty much throughout the winter and are ready for hard work workReparation Reparation which did some fencing earlier last year was one of the sensations of last falls Bowie meeting Remembering him as a fencer and not a particularly good one either probably because he had not had a great deal of experience some 10000 men and women were taken completely aback on tho twentyfirst of last November when Repara ¬ tion trimmed All Over Maximac Clansman Bonus and Pegasus in a flat race of one mile and seventy yards Nor was this the only good race the son of Trojan and Jliimilily showed before winter came He defeated Opperman Duncecap Overtake Athelstan and AH Fair a few days later in another race of one mile and seventy yards After Repa ration beat him Maximac trimmed Lucky Hour Bon Homme Rockminister Hephaistos Nedna Captain Alcock and some others in the 10000 Thanksgiving Handicap HandicapBrady Brady has not given up the idea of mak ¬ ing a jumper of Reparation but at Bowie Havre de Grace and Pimlico the Trojan horse will race on the Hat He is the fittest horse probably of the Davis string and is to start in the 5000 Inaugural Handicap on April 2 if he continues to train satisfac ¬ torily torilyOran Oran Segacious and The Sphinx have been schooling through the Benning Held but aro being trained for flat racing at Bowie They are showing plenty of speed Kagerness is a daughter of Vulcain and Turkey Red II Sho is a half sister of Flannel Shirt She is one of three twoyearolds in the Davis string The others are Relentless a daughter of Vulcain and JHmation and a chestnut son of Zeus and Hopscotch
