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FOUR FEATURES FOR BOWIE Two Stakes of 0,000 Each and Two of ,500 Each Listed in Coming Meeting. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct 20. With two slakes of ,500 each and two of 0,000 each as features, the program announced by James F. OHara, general manager of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, guarantees the distribution among horsemen who take part in the impending fall meeting at Prince Georgo Park, Bowie, a matter -of 60,000 or 70,000. Also it insures the participation of many of the best horses that will have remained in training through the autumn meeting of the Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs, Louisville, and Pimlico trade, Baltimore. Bowie racing will take up the .last fortnight of November. It will encounter no competition in any quarter until Thanksgiving, a few days ahead of its finish. Thanksgiving will mark the beginning of the winter meetings at New Orleans, Tijuana and Havana, But these winter racing places are far away. With the best of the thoroughbreds that will have been racing in Kentucky and Maryland available, there will be more than enough to overfill every stable of Prince George Park and outside accommodations. The ,500 specials of the Bowie program will be the Prince George and Endurance Handicaps, the former a gallop of one mile and an eighth for three-year-olds exclusively, the latter a dash of one mile for two-year-olds of both sexes. The 0,000 races will be the Thanksgiving, a handicap of one mile and three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and over, and the Southern Maryland, a handicap of one mile for all ages. Twenty thousand dollars more than was offered last fall will be added in the Bowie stakes. The program book of the coming meeting, on which clerk of the course Joseph McLennan is now working, will be announced presently. It will provide for horses of all classes. Overnight purses will range ,300 and up. Superintendent Richard Pending has Prince George Park in fine condition now. The going will be improved, however, if there are five or six days rain in mid-November, while the horses are disporting themselves at Marlborough.
