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MAR YLAND RA CING SEASON BEGINS TOD A Y fA w ■ INAUGURAL HANDICAP » Big Feature of Bowies Opening Day Program ♦ Seventeen Named to Contest foi ,000 Added Prize — Outlook Bright for Good Sport. BALTIMORE. Md., March 31.— While the weather today was bleak with early forenoon rains, indications are that conditions will be favorable for the opening of the racing season of the Southern Maryland Association at the Bowie track tomorrow. The track cannot be fast for the opening day, but the going should be safe and the card of races arranged for the opening day is one that should fittingly usher in the new season of sport. The big feature of the opening day is th* Inaugural Handicap, a seven-eighths dash for three-year-olds and over, to which ,004 is added. It is to be run as the fifth race and no less than seventeen of the eligibles have been named through the entry box. It comprises a field of remarkably good sprinters and there will be few withdrawals before pest time. The Greentree Stable is numerously represented with The Vintner, Leopardess and Moonraker each in the list. King of the Spa. which performed so well at Miami, and Magic Wand are named from the Rold-Lawrence Stable. J. F. Richardson is represented by Fraternity II. and Tester, two that trained at Bowie, and Woods Garth has named the J. S. Cosden pair, Cloudland and Yankee Princess. These are the "couples" in the race, while the other notables of the promised field are J. W. Beans Donaghee. the good one that has been schooling through the field this spring and Joseph E. Davis Reputation, a campaigner that has always shown to great advantage over the Bowie track. This Inaugural will bring several good ones out of winter retirement and they will be ready to meet those that have been seasoned at Miami and New Orleans. HORSES FIT AND READY. All training reports indicate that the winter seasoned horses will find the idlers fit and ready and never before has the Inaugural held out greater promise. The setting for the Inaugural is indeed attractive and Joseph McLennan has brought together fields that are evenly balanced and calculated to make the opener a worthy one. The five and a half furlongs race for three-| year-olds, known as the Promenade Purse, promises well with five named to bear silks. There is a half-mile dash for juveniles in which two of the Whitney two-year-olds will be uncovered, and the other races are under claiming conditions. Each has called out a big field and the entries for the first day of the racing suggest that there will be an overabundance of horses through the eleven days of the meeting. Baltimore is eager for the opening of the new racing season and the hotels are filled with horsemen and those who find their keenest enjoyment in the sport. Many New Yorkers are on hand for this opening, in fact a greater number than ever before, and it is promised that the transportation facili-I lies will be severely taxed to take care of the opening day crowd. Maurice Hayman has completed his arrangements for his Hayman Special, that is so popular with a numb Mr of the racegoers. This special train will leave from the Baltimore station of the W. B. and A. at 1 :45 p. m. each day, arriving at the race course in ample time for the fir:;t race. It leaves j immediately after the running of the last jrace. The train this year will consist of four comfortable and commodious cars, and indications are that it may be necessary to increase its size. With the coming of the horses there also came a big colony of jockeys, and in that department the sport will be well supplied. | : ; , | j ■ j j j I , I j I | j
