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ONLY TEN MORE DAYS . Maryland Spring Racing Season i Opens at Bowie April 1. Horses at Prince George Park Being.-Augmented by Daily Arrivals From New Orleans. BALTIMORE, Md., March 21. With only ten days remaining before Bowie throws open -its gates on April 1 for the opening of the spring racing season in Maryland this city is now the mecca of turfmen who will campaign their. Horses at Bowie, Havre de Grace and Pimlico before going to New York, Kentucky or Canada. Each day brings new arrivals from New Orleans, the horsemen who racsd there during the winter shipping tneir horses north as soon as cars are availaoie. Among the first arrivals from the Crescent City was racing secretary Joseph McLennan, who immediately took up his duties in connection with the Bowie meeting. The stable of Frank Garrett, which wintered at Bowie, is made up of Bonfire, Cota dOr, Assistance, Carao and Roanoke. Bonfire and Cote dOr look exceptionally well. Always useful platers, when right, they will be ready before the Bowie meeting is far advanced. Bonfire, a son of Campfire and Honeymoon, is never so good as when racing over the Bowie course. He was graduated from the maiden class there last spring in a claiming race that attracted three or four winners and after that he took two other purses. In the stable of J. Edwin Griffith, now at Bowie in the charge of Harry Rites, ara J. E. G., St. Valentine, Frank Furst, Wheat King and four two-year-olds. These ara mostly home-breds from Mr. Griffiths Griff-wood Farm, which is in Baltimore County-near the picturesque village of Mount Washington. Rites arrived at Bowie last weelc after having given his charges considerabla work at the farm. They are all almost ready for racing. FREEMANS STABLE RESTING. Clyde Freeman, who won several races at New Orleans in the winter with Paul Micou. was the first horseman to arrive at Bowia from the south with a considerable string. He brought Cimarron, Reluctant, Wrecker, Peace Pal, Barbary, Millie G., Waukeag. Duelma, Antiquity, Recoup and Knot Gras3 here. He is freshening up these thoroughly seasoned campaigners for the spring meeting oC the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, which will begin April 1 and continue for twelve days. Paul Micou is no longer in Freemans barn. He was claimed after his last New Orleans victory in February. Jim Arthur has arrived at Bowie with his stable of fourteen which campaigned in New Orleans. Freezy Sneezy is the most useful performer in this string. The stable is well furnished in jockeys, having "Chicklets" Lang, Abel and Holmes. James Rowe has sent word he will ship seven of the II. P. Whitney racers down from Brookdale Farm in charge of his son to campaign at Bowie. The Sergeant-Swenke combination of fourteen, headed by Hidden Jewel, Despair, Royal Duck and Rock Bottom, also detrained from the Crescent City. Other arrivals from the southern metropolis were F. J. Kearns and W. V. Casey with six, F. A. Tansor with Golden Billows and one other, and Frank Farrar with Winner Take All, Gondolier and Who Cares.
