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BOWIES BRIGHT PROSPECTS - Nearly ATI the Stables Racing at Pimlico at Prince George Park. Program More Ambitions Than Formerly "With Two 0,000 and Two ,500 Added States as Headllncrs. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 3. Very nearly all the horsemen now racing at Pimlico will be represented in four richly endowed stakes to be decided at Prince George Park, Bowie, in the course of the fortnights racing the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association will conduct toward the end of the month. Nominators are J. S. Cosden, Joseph E. Davis, A. C. Bostwick, General James A. Buchanan, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, Montfort and B. B. Jones, William Woodward Belair Stud, August Belmont, Gifford A. Cochran, William R. Coe, H. Rozier Dulany, Robert L. Gerry, Samuel D. Riddle, Edward Riley Bradley, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, H. G. Bedwell, Ral Parr, Joseph Marrone, Howard Maxwell, Alfred Hennen Morris, Robert J. Walden, George Wingfield, Commander J. K. L. Ross, Walter J. Salmon, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N., Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Payne Whitney-, Richard T. Wilson, William P. Burch, Selby L. Burch, H. M. Howard, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, John Farrell, Jr., Frank J. Farrell, Spalding L. Jenkins, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Edward F. Simms, Edward Beale McLean, Robert 1. Miller, Thomas W. OBrien, "Victor Vivadbu, J C. Milam, Scott P. Harlan, and others. A more ambitious programthan has been run in the past at the Southern Maryland track, which is situated midway between Baltimore and. Washington on the interurban electric railway, has been advertised by general manager James F. OHara for the impending meeting. There will be two 0,-000 stakes, the Southern Maryland Handicap, one mile, for all ages, and the Thanksgiving, one mile and three-sixteenths, for three-year-olds and over, and two of ,500, the Endurance Handicap, one mile, for two-year-olds, and the Prince George, one mile and a. sixteenth, for three-year-olds. Between 70,000 and 75,000 will be distributed among the participating horsemen. Already every stall within the park has been taken. In addition to some SOD horses that will stable at Bowie the meeting will have a colony of 200 cr more at Benning from which to draw. Benning horses will be brought to and from the course as they race in special vans. Mrs. Vanderbilts great gelding, Sarazen, winner of the Champagne and Laurel Stakes, Continued on twelfth page. BOWIES BRIGHT PROSPECTS Continued from first page. conqueror of. the brilliant Happy Thoughts in a 5,000 match at Laurel Parle, undefeated in nine races, will be a headliner of the Bowie meeting. Trainer Max Hirsch says that the son of High Time and Rush Box will be pointed for the Endurance Handicap and tho Southern Maryland revivals whether he goes west for a match race with Wise Counsellor, the Cincinnati Trophy and Queen City Handicap winner, or not. Sarazen has speed of the sort that made Hamburg, Sysonby, Artful, Colin and Man o War famous. He races as though no distance is going to be too great for him. After Sarazen had galloped Happy Thoughts off her feet at Laurel Park Hirsch declared that he would be willing to match him, if the High Time gelding were his, against any horse in the world at any distance up to a mile and an eighth. Sarazen, with all his speed, appears to be indifferent to track condition. He won his first races at Chicago and Saratoga in muddy going, the Champangne Stakes at Belmont Park on a fast track. Whenever a horse comes to him he has something left. Superintendent Richard Pending will have the track safe and sane at Bowie this fall. Year by year ho effects improvement. Presently he will evolve a uniform footing the entire length of the course, notwithstanding nature gave him freakish geological conditions with which to cope. Probably as many as 200 horses, those that raced at Laurel Park and elected to rest through the Pimlico and Marlboro meetings, have assembled already at Bowie and are working regularly. Preparation has been made for the reception of twenty of various ages of the Jones stable, which have been racing in Kentucky. With the filly Fair Phantom, which is still much on the job. the Jones stable cut a brilliant figure in last Novembers meeting at Prince George Park.
