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Latest Turf News From Bowie BOWIE. Md., April 4. William Dugan*s good mare Leghorn has been retired and will be bred. Roger Minton. who conducted a stock farm for B. F. Messier at Guaybel, Cuba, was a visitor. T. Walgren. auditor at Jefferson Park, is here on his way to New York on a business trip. William Shea watched the races from the clubhouse, having come up from New Orelans recently. A carload of horses will be shipped from Bowie to Akron, _.. for the meeting to open there shortly. Chester A. Applegate was among the arrivals from New Orleans. His horses came here before him. Joe Reid has taken over the book of F. Smith for the Howie meeting and is making his riding engagements. Jack Adkins has taken over the horses of the Kirkfield Stable that were trained by J. H. Tevis during his illness. J. M. McKenzie has returned to Canada, having come to Bowie to confer with Jack Adkins concerning the Kirklield Stable. Kimball Patterson has purchased Evelyn Sawyer and Fannie Bean from J. R. Skinker and will campaign them at Cleveland and Chicago. Both Our Birthday and Current Events came out of the last race of Tuesday lame, but it is not unusual for them to be "nodding after a race. S. Thomas, whose leg was broken by a fall at New Orleans, is at Elizabeth. X. J., where it was found necessary to break it again to have it properly reset. James Rowe was an arrival from Brookdale Farm and has entirely recovered from an operation which he underwent recently. He will go back to Brookdale Saturday. St. Henry, the young stock horse and a half-brother to Sir Barton, will be bred to several of the Jones mares. Ormondale is another stock horse at the farm. Dr. F. W. Ashe is back from Havana and is doing missionary work for the Huntington, W. Ya.. meeting that opens on April 12. Dr. Ashe will serve in the stewards stand at that meeting. Consistent Baby Grand, one of the stars of the J. K. L. Ross stable, is reported about ready for the colors. He will be a starter at Havre de Grace, according to word from Commander Ross Maryland farm. Before the running of the first race Burch said that his filly Mary Agnes, a daughter of Trap Rork and Lady Clinton, had the sweetest disposition of any horse he ever had. Rut he added it takes more than a sweet disposition to win races. Mary Agnes bean slowlv and did not cut any figure in the race, but she has still her sweet disposition and may learn the more important business of winning later.
