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i Latest Turf News From Bowie Be Dr. D at at nv and . A. „. m his tn the to x,_ L. ar and at se *■ the m a a te oi p, m h; has JJ bl big ■ ■ pi tl CJ K f lor u a _ . a all tl p p » G • J 1 e -y V ■ j " tl _ Milton Gray was a New York visitor. L. A. Carey is a New Yorker who is a Bowie regular. The horse Jimmie B. has been nerved by McCarthy. The horses of J. H. Deavenport arrived Havre de Grace from New Orleans this morning. Max Gordon, of the theatrical firm of Lewis Gordon, is a visitor from New York with H. Middleman. Mortimer F. Lynch is a regular of the New York delegation, with Washington as headquarters during his stay. Ben Beach has been appointed agent for Ed Trotter stable and will leave Lexington shortly, taking jockey Wallace with him. W. A. Porter, agent for the stable of J. K. Ross, made his tirst appearance at Bowie was busy all afternoon, telling of his 1 adventures in far away Tijuana. Lorena Marcellia has been sentenced to the • schooling list. Marshall Cassidy has changeJ schooling hours from I to 10 oclock every morning. This schooling is conducted from 1 barrier in the seven-eighths chute. W. L. "Billy" Oliver came over from i Havre de Grace, attracted by the holiday card that was offered. He is pointing Dexterous for the Harford Handicap on the ■ opening day of the Havre de Grace meeting. ■ Sheridan Clark, secretary of the Dorval I Park track, is a visitor at Bowie and doing ! missionary work for the Canadian racing. He ■ a decidedly optimistic view of the conning racing season, now that the dates for Canada have been announced. William Garth, trainer for J. S. Cosdens i racing establishment, and his son, Woods, , made their tirst appearance at Bowie today. , Garth has his string at Pimlico and he expressed himself as more than pleased with 1 the progress that is being made with his s candidates for the Preakness StaKes and • Kentucky Derby. Five have been named 1 each of these great three-year-old races, • but the three of which the greatest things s are expected are Dunlin, Martingale and ■ Golden Rule. It is the intention to show v* of them, at Havre de Grace. Elaborate preparation is being made for r the racing at Bowie Thursday when the e Pershing Handicap will be the feature of the e program. Among the army officers who will ■ grace the occasion with their presence are e General John J. Pershing, Major General 1 John L. Hines, Major General Henry T. Allen. - Major General R. C. Davis, Major Gen-1 - eral Wm. EL Hart, Major II. C. Dunlop and Mrs. Dunlop and Captain H. A. Barnes and J Mrs. Barnes. There will be many other r officers and their aids who have also signified J their intention of Icing on hand that day. 1 • 1 i ■ ■ I ! ■ i , , 1 s • 1 • s ■ v* r e e ■ e 1 - - J r J Jack Adler came over from New York for the big racing day. J. B. Smith will ship the horses of B. Harding to Havre de Grace Monday. J. C. Fletcher. Canadian breeder and sportsman, was an arrival from Toronto. Phil McGinnis of starting gate fame made his first appearance at the meeting today. B. B. Jones came up from Audley Farm to see his horses race and watched the races from a grandstand box. James "Airplant" Casey is on hand, but says that he will not begin the racing season until he moves over to Havre de Grace. Matt Brady has decided to ship the Joseph E. Davis horses over from Benning to Pimlico and will take theai to Havre de Grace to meet their engagements. Spalding j. Jenkins, president of the Mary- land State Fair Association, that conducts its racing at Laurel, was attracted by the good card and came out to the track. Jack Welch combined business with pleasure when he came to the races today, hav- ing come to Baltimore for the opening of his new production, Chauncey Olcott in "The Heart of Paddy Whack." The coming Maple Heights meeting is at- tracting considerable attention among the hcrsemen and among the stables that will send horses there are Kenneth Karrick with a division of the W. R. Coe horses and the Kenton Stable. Fred F. Livingston, secretary at Thorn -" . cliffe Park, was at Bowie today and announced . that the Thorncliffe mcetngs of this 1 year will follow Woodbine Park, both in the , spring and fall. The spring dates will be ■ from May 2S to June 4 and the fall dates I from October 1 to October 8. j I H. P. Conkling, one of the Bowie stewards | ! who also served at New Orleans, said hei would like to correct an impression that the Smallwood riding at this meeting was the same jockey who was suspended at New Or- leans. The rider who was punished at New r Orleans was J. Smiallwood, while the one 5 riding at Bowie is E. Smallwood and is no relation to the other. Eddie Dugan will he back in August Bel- monts service again this year. He has * joined the stable according to a report at t Bowie and is galloping horses for Louis Feu- stel at Belmont Park. Some years back, . and while S. C. Hildreth trained for the 1 chairman of the Jockey Club. Dugan was the ; first rider for the stable. Since that time "" Dugan has been abroad and spent a con-1 " siderable time as a prisoner in Russia. He 8 came back to the American turf at Tijuana 1 during the winter and demonstrated there that he has not lost his cunning in the sad-•• ■ die.
