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I I 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 • 1 1 J ? I - • t j e ■ i s t . m e J t to o t~ BOWIE TRACK NOTES 1 t — ■ — ♦ • BOWIE. Md.. April 4. Jimmy Mclntyre. who at one time was the star rider of the James Arthur stable, was I an early arrival. He got in from Miami, i where he has been employed for the past two i years as night clerk in the Monticello Hotel. I W. Daly has arranged to ship the five I horses he is training for the Woodlawn I Stable to Havre de Grace. W. F. Scheid. owner of the establishment, is known as the i American seed king. The Woodlawn Stable 1 horses were wintered at their owners farm • at Lancaster, Pa. J. L. Schlesinger arrived from New Orleans. • He contemplates purchasing a couple of horses to race at the Fairmount Park meeting. W. Irvine, who is training a public stable, has taken over The Heathen for C. H. Pierce. He also added four horses, the property of the Flamingo Farm Stable, to his band. Jimmy Butwell is here from New Orleans, where he spent the winter. Butwell threatens to take out a license and do some riding on the Maryland tracks. Among the stables already at the Havre de Grace track are the H. P. Headley and Willis Sharpe Kilmer bands. Bob Freund. one of James Miltons assistants, is at Havre de Grace every morning schooling two-year-olds. Schooling hours are from 7 :30 to 10 :30. Condition books for the United Hunts meeting, April 19 and April 21. were distributed among the horsemen by Jake Weidler. Frank Hayes, a prominent business man of Waterbury, Conn., will race several horses in Chicago this year. H. G. Bedwell has secured second call on the services of the apprentice R. Leonard for the Bowie meeting. W. S. Kilmer wired F. Hall, agent for jockey Craigmyle, not to permit the latter to accept mounts at Bowie. Kilmer has a big band of racers at Havre de Grace and will use the lads services in assisting in the preparation of the racers that trainer Carroll is fitting at Harford County track. Guy Milton reports the death of the plater Bowie Clark as a result of fever contracted en route to Bowie. Jockey Guy Mangan. who suffered a broken leg as a result of a fall at Havre de Grace last fall, is here. Mangan expects to ride at some of the Maryland meetings. Walter Day of Port Chester, N. Y.. is here in search of material for a stable he will campaign on the New York tracks. He was being chaperoned by Dominick Kinney, the Detroit sportsman, who is associated with the J. Richardson stable this year. According to the plans of the Wilson-t Salmon confederacy. Jack Pryce is slated to race the division of the stable he has here on the Canadian tracks this summer. They will be shipped to Toronto at the conclusion of the Pimlico meeting. Willie Do le has been engaged to act as patrol judge at the Hawthorne meeting. J. Bo.len has signed J. Chalmers to do his riding. Fishman, who is also connected with the Boden establishment, is here galloping horses. Happy Gordon, who has had much to do in making a rider of R. Workman, is making the engagements of Eddie Ambrose. L. Stein-hart and J. Josiah. Besides W. Curran and E. Barn-s. Frank Capia has three other riders here. J. Walker, O. Brown and L. Schaefer. .1. E. VVilkerson has purchased the contract that Guciardo brothers held on jockey C. Grassia. W. E. Martin was a late arrival from Cuba with his stable. Roddy Campbell, who wintered at Pim-e lico. has arranged to ship Regularity, False and Uncertain to Beulah Park some day this week. Jockey Sutphin, who rode for E. F. Whitney last year, will accompany the Campbell stable West. J. M. Mergler, under contract to A. C. P.ostwick. came over from Penning and will ! be seen in action during the re ainder of the i 1 meeting. ! i The condition books of the Havre de Grace meeting were distributed among the horsemen by Joe McLennan. Commissioner Hannan was one of the big delegation that came over from New York to i give the opening a good sendoff. He will ; remain for a few days. Sam Louis has taken up the four horses : he had turned out at the C. Becker farm on the Reistertown Road since last fall. The i band included Foundation. Oureida, Turquoise • and Jane Booker. Miller Henderson wired J. C. Fletcher at ; Toronto asking for first call on his clever • apprentice F. Mann for the spring meeting ■ in Maryland. Roy Pickerson. who for several years j acted as chief assistant to Mars Cassidy, , was a visitor. The first claim of the meeting was made . by J. P. Smith, who took the plater Drama out of the seventh race on the opening day from Mis. W. L. Martin for ,000. Jack Joyner was an arrival and almost rode , Recognition to victory in the first face. The Widener colt was in front at the head of the I home stretch, but tired. Jack Adler received a wireless that Lafe ! Block was on his way North from Florida. Al Rohrback. who has been bus" during ; the winter months trying to induce some Delaware capitalist to build a race track in i Wilmington, came over for a few days racing. - The speedy three-year-old Typhoon, a t prominent candidate for the Kentucky Derby. . has been named to make his initial start of f the season in the Capitol Stakes, to be run l Saturday.
