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BOWIES OPENING NEAR Entries for ,000 Inaugural Handicap Close Thursday. Large and Excellent Field in Prospect for This Feature Some Promising Riding Material. BOWIE, Md:, March 21. With the close of the Havana meeting Sunday shipments of horses are expected from Oriental Park daily from now on, as quite a few owners who raced in Cuba all winter contemplate a campaign in Maryland this spring. With the opening of Bowie just a week distant there is much interest in the prospective field for the Inaugural Handicap, the ,000 added feature of the initial program. Entries for the race close Thursday, March 27, and it is expected that a surprisingly large number of good handicap horses will be named. Such as Reparation, Shuffle Along, Donaghee, Opperman and Swingalong are reported training for this race. Elmer Trueman, Avho won half a dozen races at Marlboro and Bowie last fall for himself and C. C. Smithson of Washington, promises to have his veteran marc Widow Be-dotte and his live-year-old gelding Sea Sand ready for the colors in the first week at Bowie. These horses are only platers. Neither will start in any Prince George Park stake. But Trueman has been busy with them since the middle of February and they are galloping famously. Widow Bedotte, a Jersey-bred daughter of Ildrim, is in her tenth year. Nevertheless, she looks like a three-year-old and has plenty of speed. Trueman seems to be in a fair way toward . getting a stable of some strength. He got a letter the other day from Dr. W. R. Carter, in which Dr. Carter said he would be down early in April to buy some horses at Bowie. Dr. Carter and his brother raised Fitz Herbert for Harry Belmont and Lovetie and Dalmation for Mrs. Livingston. They have not had anything to do with thoroughbreds since Harry F. Sinclair bought Rancocas Farm and established Samuel C. Hildreth as its head, and are anxious to get in the sport again. Dr. Carter bred Widow Bedotte as well as Lovetie and Dalmation, and he seems to like the way Trueman has kept that daughter of Ildrim going. SMALLWOODS YOUNG BROTHER. There appears to be some promising young riding material at Bowie where upward of 500 thoroughbreds of various ages and conditions are preparing for the spring meeting. One of the likeliest is master Jennings Small-wood, a brother of Eddie, the last nanied one of the most succesful jockeys of last year. The younger Smallwood is in the employ of Robert I. Miller of Washington, who has Wellfinder at Bowie getting ready for the ,000 Inaugural Handicap. Miller intends to have the boy ride steadily. James Arthur, veteran developer of jockeys as well as a first class trainer of horses, is trying out a youth of Italian parentage called James Mastrongelo. Arthur has been in New Orleans all winter. He sent Mastrongelo on ahead of the stable he will campaign at Bowie. He thinks the lad has natural talent and will be mdre than pleased if he shows this year half the ability the brothers Lang displayed in their first years. Buck Forman, whose horses wintered at Bowie, believes he has a comer in young Vincent Stotte, a Washingtonian. Stotte has an easy seat, good hands and plenty of sand. Forman is trying these pleasant March days to teach him to be alert at the starting gate. When Stotte learns how to get his mounts away Forman will begin to put him up. Forman has always been a great hand for having his own boys ride. Carl Winfrey, who recently came on from New Orleans with a big string, but without his old standby Pastoral Swain, brought on William Harvey, a 90-pound lad of sixteen or seventeen, in whom he thinks he sees promise. Guy Milton is developing J. Paushon, B. E. Chapman has Albert Fisher and G. E. Alexandra has W. Marriner.
