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J BOWIES ,000 STAKES Three Stellar Features Offered for Spring Meeting Opening April 1. j Much Activity at Prince George park Horses Arriving From Various Winter Quarters. BALTIMORE, Md., March 7. Now that I the Maryland racing dates of 1324 are approved by the Racing Commission and tho g schedule for the four big tracks of the state I a announced, the various racing associations a are proceeding with their plans for spring r racing. I Bowie, as in former years, will throw open . its gates for the first spring meeting of tho i year in the east. Tuesday. April 1, is tho i opening date and the Southern Maryland , j Agricultural Association is offering three valuable stake races in addition to an at- j t tractively arranged program of handicaps and , overnight races for the eleven days of t the sport at Prince George Park. The stake races and the dates on which t they will be run are as follows: Inaugural Handicap, ,000 added, to bo j run April 1, for three-year-olds and upward; seven-eighths. Capitol Handicap, ,500 added, to be run April 5, for three-year-olds; seven-eighths. Prince George Handicap, ,000 added, to i be run April 12, for three-year-olds and.up-j - , ward; one mile and a sixteenth, j With the Bowie meeting only three weeks ! j , distant there is much activity at Princo , George Park these days. All of the horses which wintered at the course are going along i daily in a way that suggests they will bo icady to give the seasoned veterans from the winter tracks an argument from the ; start. H. G. Bedwcll has announced that he will not ship his Kenton Stable racers to Bowie, ! but will wait for the Havre meeting. J. Ilealy, who handles the small string of J. W. Murphy, shipped four over from Phocnixville, where they wintered, to the i, Bowie track. It is planned to make a few additions to this group before the open-! ing of the Maryland season. aj . Clyde Freeman was among the first arrivals ! at Bowie from New Orleans, bringing on I a half-dozen platers which he raced at that point. The apprentice, Farland, accompanied the shipment. T. A. Doyle has returned from Cuba and I taken up four horses which he wintered at I , the Gentlemens Driving Park in this city. i This stable has moved on to Bowie, t Jockey D. Stirling has been engaged by 1 trainer Jack Richardson to ride for him i This year; Stirling is now galloping horses r of that string at Bowie. l It is expected that Woods Garth will bring up from Virginia about twenty of the J. S. Cosden horses for racing at Bowie. Frank Bray has canceled his reservations 1 for stall room at Bowie for the horses he has been racing at Havana this winter. t
