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BOWIE OPENING NEAR Maryland Spring Racing Season to Begin Tuesday. « Plenty of Excellent Material inj Prime Condition Awaits the Bugle Call. BALTIMORE. Md., March 31.— The spring racing season of 1928 is at hand. On Tuesday. April 3, the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association will throw open the gates of Prince Georges Park at Bowie for the inaugural Maryland meeting. The racing at Bowie will be of eleven days duration and will occupy the spotlight of public attention for the entire period as no other American track will be in operation. Bowie racing will be marked by revivals of the Inaugural and Prince Georges Spring Handicaps, ,000, dashes of seven-eighths and one mile and a sixteenth, respectively. for three-year-olds and over ; the ,500 Capitol Handicap, a dash of seven-eighths, for three-year-olds exclusively, and the ,500 Bowie Kindergarten, a dash of half a mile for two-year-olds. Purses will range from ,200 to S2.Q00. There will be additional rewards of 50 for every Maryland-bred horse that wins a race of less than ,000 in value and 00 for winners of ,000. The disastrous fire that visited Bowie last year proved a blessing in disguise, for a new and modern plant arose from the smoldering ruins and now Bowie ranks with the foremost racing establishments in the East. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. Situated midway between Ealtimore and Washington. Bowie is served by the Inter-urban Electric line and reached by as fine hard roads as are to be found anywhere in the country. Stuart Layton will run his Club Special from the Baltimore station of the electric line every day. It costs a little more to ride in Layton*s de luxe cars, but there are comfortable seats for all patrons The Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads will run special trains down from New York. Philadelphia. Wilmington and Havre de Grace. The racing will begin every afternoon at 2 :30. A conservative estimate of the number of horses now quartered at Maryland tracks and at the Benning course in Washington is 1,500. and a majority of these will be available for Bowie racing. There have been daily arrivals from the winter racing and training grounds and practically all of the thoroughbreds that are stabled at Bowie are ready for the races. Among the recent arrivals from New Orleans was the Louisiana Derby winner, Jack Higgins. His owner was forced to find stabling accommodations on the outside of the Bowie track, as all the stalls are either occupied or reserved. Jockey C. E. Allen came along to ride the Louisiana Derby winner in all his races in Maryland. AKIUVU.s 1 ROM TIJUANA. Preston Burch. who is in charge of the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, has arrived from Tijuana with eighteen horses. Freddie Hopkins got in from Benning with an equal number belonging to Hairy Payne Whitney of New York. A. G. Robertson, of this city, arrived from New Orleans with William Mahers Fly Hawk, Fairy Maiden, Beprove, Lily Sue, Cloudburst IT. and Lincoln Plaut. Robertson also is training George W. Lofts Blandris and Hamca. "Kentucky Colonel, Re c-rtsons • own property, was also included in the shipment. Jockey Henry Burke, who can ride at 110 pounds, came on from New Orleans and joined the A. G. Robertson stable. Frnie Hall brought Nat Evens and five others that he wintered at Pimlico. R. L. Freeman, of Morristown. N. J., has sold Ba -krope to Ral Pari, of Baltimore. This plater was purchased by Freeman last fall from Parr. Probably the hardest horse to condition here is Real Artist. He has to be led on the oval and if he takes it into his head to run the reverse way of 4he track his rider has to let him do so. He is barred from the racing strip until after work lours in order to make it safe for others. The most dangerous candidates for the Inaugural Handicap here on opening day appear to be Aucilla, Shasta Lad and Willie K. They are right on edge and all have shaded three-eighths in :36 and three-quarters in better than 1 :15%. Jimmy Gallops" Brown arrived Thursday from New fork. Lie will serve in the pari-muluel plants on the Maryland tracks. Jim Milton, starter on all Maryland mile tracks, arrived Thursday from Cuba, where he served as assistant general manager of . Oriental Park. Jockey Harry Howard arrived at Pimlico from Cuba.
