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MARYLAND SPRING RACING BEGINS TODAY Everything in Readiness for Splendid Meeting at the Bowie Course . * — Twenty-Five Named for Inaugural Handicap, the Stake Feature of Opening Program — Grand Array of Horses on Hand and Ready » BOWIE. Md., April 2. — Bowie is all set to usher in the spring racing season of 1928 in the East tomorrow. Everything is in readiness for the opening, which promises to he a brilliant one. During the eleven days meeting four stakes will be run, the ,000 added Inaugural on the opening day, the Prince Georges, Capitol and the Kindergarten Stakes. Despite the rains that fell last night the going was in fairly good condition today and promises to be fast tomorrow. Every stall on the grounds has an occupant and the overflow is stabled at Marlboro, Laurel and Pimlico. There are 400 horses at the Hilltop course. The spring meetings at the Maryland tracks hold out every promise of high ]j i . : I i • class sport. There are four stakes carded at Havre de Grace, all of which carry an added value of 0,000. while Pimlico will have its usual array of brilliant features, principal of which will be the 0,000 added Preakness and the 5,000 added Dixie Stakes. The Inaugural Handicap, tomorrows feature, has twenty-five acceptances programed. The Whitney horse Afterglow is top weight at 12 pounds, with Aucilla and Navigator following at 125 each. Many of them have shown good trials, but there is certain to be a numler of withdrawals. The usual race for two-year-olds will open up proceedings and the last three races are over a long distance of ground. The officials sanctioned by the Maryland Racing Commission are the same as presided at the meeting here last fall and all are on the ground ready for action. Messrs. Landers, Wright and Layton, former employees of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in Baltimore, have formed a partnership and organized a corporation of their own. They have entered into an arrangement to help police the Bowie course, and may also be at Pimlico. JOCKEYS BBC ISTKKED. Jesse Bennett, who is in charge of the jockey rooms at the different Maryland tracks, reports that sixty-five riders will be seen in action during the Bowie meeting. H. Teller Archibald of Chicago has purchased a farm in Maryland between Middle-burg and the Ziegler place on the Virginia line, where he will establish a stock farm. It is Mr. Archibalds purpose to secure a number of choice mares which will be mated to Westy Hogan, which he purchased some time ago from John Whitloe. George Walker will be in charge of the farm. Six of the Archibald two-year-olds which wintered at Ben-ning have been shipped to Pimlico to join the division of the stable that George Arvin has at the hilltop track. E. S. Welter and Bob Freund. two of James Miltons assistants, had 100 horses at the barrier at Bowie this morning. Welter has arranged to erect a starting gate at Havre de Grace next week. A new nose rope made of rubber, the invention of W. A. Rheinhart of Baltimore, will be used by Miltons assistants this spring. W. H. Brooks, who was associated with the late W. P. Burch for a number of years, got in from Benning with four two-year-olds, which will race in his colors this year.
