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JUMPERS TRAIN AT BOWIE Pending Improvises Steeplechase Course for Schooling of Fencers During- Winter. BALTIMORE, Md., March 21. There is no jumping course at Bowie and probably there never will be. Superintendent Richard Pending has found starting a suitable sod in the sandy, porous soil of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations track impossible. But Bowie was the-home througl the winter of a group of ten or a dozen fencers of more or less renown that are training now for Havre de Grace steeple-chasing. - There .is a fine cross-country course at Havre de Grace and steeplechasing will be a feature of the. April session of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association that will begin April 16 and continue through the month. These fencers are schooling over four or five jumps that Pending, who was a first rate steeplechase jockey before he became a first rate track superintendent, has improvised. Possibly the best of the Bowie chasers Roi Craig, Gold Foyle, Shoal, Nonus, Eager and Bashdon are in Pendings own stable. Roi Craig, a discard from the Greentree Stable, is training soundly and looks particularly well. Pending says he will beat the best chasers that start at Havre de Grace.. Roi Craig did not look formidable at the time Vincent Powers let him go last October, but Pending won the Autumn Green Spring Valley chase with him at Pimlico in November. Shoal, winner of three chases last sea- son, is training as soundly as is . Roi Craig and showing foot on the flat. Gold Foyle which belongs to John Farrell, Jr., Avon at Havre de Grace last fall. The best Nonus could do last season was to win at Timonium, but Pending believes he will prove better than a bush horse this year. Nonus showed considerable promise the year before last. Bashdon is a three-year-old maiden of Pendings own that is schooling this spring for the first time. In J. P. Smiths stable is Mrs. Henry Datt-ners Henry Dattner, winner of the Junior Steeplechase of two miles for three-year-olds at Pimlico last fall. He is one of the likeliest four-year-olds of the whole Maryland steeplechase colony. At Laurel Park in October Henry Dattner finished second to the veteran Damask in a two-mile steeplechase. These jumpers will move out in the course of the next twelve days. There is no room at Bowie for horses that are not intended for flat racing. They will be shipped to Havre de Grace.
