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Here and There on the Turf Bowies Peculiarities. No Test for Juveniles. Preakness Closing. Timmaras Prospects. Again it has been shown that the Bowie track is one that, while it suite some horses exceedingly well, is "poison" for other and better horses. When the course of the Southern Maryland Association was first constructed it was a decidedly difficult, piece of ground for horses to race over. Since that first meeting, conducted in October, this racing strip has been wonderfully improved by the constant care and attention of Richard Pending, the track superintendent, but with all his care and attention Bowie remains a racing ground that is different from any other in the country. The track is a safe one and popular with trainers by reason of its generous cushion, but many a horse that is capable of winning over almost any other track is hopelessly handicapped at Bowie, while there are others that win at Bowie and are unable to show anything like the same ability when asked to race over other courses. Bowie brings home the adage of "horses for courses and courses for horses" more than any other American track. It is the invariable rule that the horse which runs well in a particular going will repeat, while the one that shows inability to run well in the same going never learns how to gallop over it successfully. Reparation, the rangy big son of Trojan and Humility, which won the Inaugural Handicap for Joseph E. Davis, is one that has always raced well at Bowie. He wintered at the track and Matt Brady brought the big horse back to the races in great condition. Care Free, Noah and Rupee were other winners of the first day of the meeting that have shown well in the Bowie going on other occasions. Because of the peculiarity of Bowie in the matter of its soil, it is well nigh impossible to judge two-year-olds that are brought to the post for the first time. There have been two-year-olds in other years that would show brilliant form at Bowie, only to fail over the other tracks, just as there have been others that improved wonderfully after leaving Bowie. Of the eleven two-year olds that went to the post in the opening race of the meeting, seven were appearing under silks for the first time and the winner and second horse came from the first time starters. In this connection the guess is hazarded that EL P. Whitneys Miniator, the winner, will show to better advantage over other tracks than Bowie. He won, but he galloped in a fashion to suggest that he was not at home in the going and Me A tee had to use a deal of skill to make the victory certain. It is possible that the son of Pennant is one of those horses that will only do what he is made to do, but he did not stride with the confidence and freedom that is expected and it may have been that he will show to much better advantage over another track. This may also apply to many other two year-olds that will go to the post before the end of the meeting and it does not do to put too much reliance on the two-year old form at Bowie. This first field of two year olds was a worthy one, as far as the general make up of the runners is concerned, and it was remarked I that they were well behaved and showed a ! degree of education that counts for so much in the young thoroughbred. Next Tuesday the stakes of the Maryland Jockey Club are to close for entries and the date is of especial importance from the fact that the 0,000 Preakness Stakes is one of the features on the list. This race is over a mile and three-sixteenths distance, at scale weight, and is for three-year o!ds, entire colts and fillies. Carlaris, the sensational English-bred winner of the Tijuana Derby and the Coffroth Handicap, in record breaking time, will undoubtedly be one of the eligibles to this rich race when the nominations are made known and he will doubtless make his first 1926 eastern appearance at either Pimlico or at the Havre de Grace meeting that precedes the meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club. Carlaris is one of the most talked of eligibles of the Kentucky Derby at this time and on all he has shown he is right in line for the same prominence among the probable nominees to the Preakness Stakes. The fact that the Preakness Stakes has such a late closing assures that a greater percentage of nominees will go to the post than would be the case with an earlier closing and, while the big race may lose a certain amount of publicity by reason of its closing date, it suits both the trainers and the racing public well. Other PimUco stakes that are to close at the same time are the PimUco Spring Handicap, Benning Handicap, Pimlico Oaks, Rennert Handicap, Spring Juvenile Stakes, Pirnlico Nursery Stakes, Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, Bowling Brook, Incentive and Pimlico Home Bred Stakes. T. W. OBriens Timmara made something of an impression in his first 1926 effort at Bawie Thursday when he was a cantering win nrr at five and a half furlongs. This hand some black son of Westy Hogan and Plureen is the OBrien hope for the Kentucky Derby and he will doubtless be named to go in the Preakness Stakes. Trainer Burttschell has not hurried Timmara and has brought his charge up to the races carrying plenty of hard flesh and the colt creates the impression that he is fit for the tightening up that must come before he is ready for a mile and a quarter on May 15 with the best of the three year-olds. Of course, five and a half furlongs means little and the colt did not beat three-year olds of Derby pretentions, but the race was ample to prove that he has been brought back to racing form possessed of becoming speed and his robust condition suggests much better things. Last year Timmara showed a disposition to go on and unless all signs fail he will race as far as any other three-year-old this year. Whether or not he will find his way to the top class only racing will tell, but at this time he is well calculated to take care of himself among the three-year olds he will be called upon to meet during the Bowie meeting. Before long there will be other Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby candidates shown at Bowie, when a better line will be avaUable on just where Timmara belongs, but he is the first of the good ones to show his wares and his showing was an eminently satisfactory one * _
