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Here and There on the Turf Entries for the Inaugural. Paul J. Miles a Steward. Races for Epinard. Dominique Races a Route. With the publication of the entries for the Inaugural Handicap at Bowie there is afforded an idea of just how the long eastern season of racing will be launched at the Maryland track Tuesday. Twenty-four were named and still it is possible that more names will be received through the mails. But even should there come no other nominations the list is one that assures a worthy renewal of the seven-eighths sprint that raises the curtain for the long campaign of racing. The fact that the closing is so late makes certain that a large percentage of those named wiil be seen in action Tuesday afternoon. And there is another interesting angle in the fact that a great majority of those made eligible are horses that were not raced through the winter months. It serves to show that the thoroughbreds that have been in retirement during the cold months are considered far enough advanced at this time to racs the seven-eighths for the considerable sum that is offered by the Southern Maryland Association. There have been excellent reports from training quarters and the proportion of entries received from such quarters is a verification of these reports of horses that are ready. It has been expected that S. C. Hildreth would send some entries from the Rancocas Farm, but unless they are received by mail the only representative will be old Dunboyne. This horse was prepared by "Jack" Richardson at Bowie and has shown enough to warrant the belief that he will stand up again this year. William Garth has a strong hand in the J. S. Cosden pair Dunlin and Good Times, and II. P. Whitney is represented by Swingalong and Margin, a pair that Fred Hopkins trained at the old Benning track. All through the list are found good ones and the Inaugural cannot fail to bring about a great contest, should the weather and track condition be favorable for the opening. It is noted that there has been a change in the officials for the racing of the Southern Maryland Agricultural and Fair Association at Bowie this spring. Herman Conkling, who formerly served as a steward with George Brown, Jr., and Baker Waters has been succeeded by Paul J. Miles. All of the other officials arc the same as those of last year. Mr. Miles has long been associated with the turf in various capacities and acted in the stewards stand with Joseph A. Murphy and J. B. Campbell through the Jefferson Park meeting at New Orleans, while it was Herman Conkling that filled a like office at the Fair Grounds meeting. The conditions for the Epinard races in this country have been finally agreed upon and all that remains now is to fix the dates for the running of the three events. These will be run at Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Latonia at distances of three-quarters, a mile and a mile and a quarter respectively. The latest move in preparation for the entertainment of the French champion was fixing the sums and the conditions for and under which the races are to be run. The Belmont and Aqueduct races will each have 25,000 added, while the Latonia race will have 0,000 added. Thus it will be seen that the total just comes to the 00,000 that was hung up to bring over Ben Irishs Epsom Derby winner Papyrus last year. But in these races Epinard will have a greater money winning chance for the reason that he is not scheduled to take part in matches. The races are to be at weight-for-age and they are open to all. In each race the entrance fee will bz 50, with ,000 additional to start. Thus it will be seen that with these fees the prize money will be swelled bountifully. These races are to close July 15 and it is intended that Epinard will be in this country at that time. These various conditions have been agreed upon by the associations and by Pierre Wer-theimer, owner of Epinard, and the date of the closing for these races was fixed after consulting the wishes of the French sportsman. It is well that these races should be at weight-for-age, for that is the only test to decide a championship. That arrangement was forecasted some time ago and any other agreement would hardly have been fair to the distinguished visitor. Whsn the weights were announced for the Lincolnshire Handicap and Epinard was required to take up 140 pounds it was evident that he would have a hard row to hoe in the English handicaps. To begin a season that high in the handicap was, to say the least, discouraging. It is probable that owners enough will be found to take a shot at the French champion at scale weights to bring about high-class contests in all three of his races, and it is devoutly to be hoped that he comes up to his races in a condition to adequately represent the French turf. Coming to this country early in July, as is proposed, Eugene Leigh should have ample time to have him fit for his best in September. Mr. Leigh is familiar with American methods and Everett Haynes, his jockej, is also an American rid;r who will have some advantage over a foreign rider. Altogether the plans for Epinard in this country are ideal. Kimball Patterson has induced Dominique to race successfully over a mile and seventy yards distance. In fact, he brought the sprinting son of Peter Quince to a condition that made it possible for him to hang out a new track record of 1:42 for the route when Edward Arlingtons good campaigner was a recent winner at the Tijuana track. Dominique was the winner of the Walden Stakes, at a mile, at Pimlico as a two-year-old in 1919, but he never afterward showed well in other than sprinting distances until this recent achievement. When he was purchased by Mr. Arlington for winter racing he was valued chiefly as a sprinter, but Mr. Arlington saw possibilities in the son of Peter Quince and Berry Maid that were overlooked by other sportsmen. He has no reason to regret his purchase and it is probable that Dominique will go on to greater things since his rejuvenation by trainer Patterson. It is the plan to race the Arlington string in Maryland and it will be shipped to Havre de Grace for the spring meeting.
