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At Bowie One Best Bet — WILLIE K. — In the Fourth Race. j j ! j j j I j j i I | • j i i | I i j j ■ j I I , j j ! j 1 I j I ! • j ! I j I i j I : I ■ I • ; It is only an ordinary card that is offered s at the Bowie course today, with the Mount Royal Purse, an allowance affair, over the t mile and seventy yards distance, serving as 1 the feature. A fairly good field is to match strides here, with such as Crossco, Willie K., ] Bucky Harris and Comet among those entered. The next best field is to hook up in ; the third offering, a six and a half furlongs sprint. " i Claiming races are to the fore in five of : the seven numbers. With the exception of ] the feature attraction, the only race not i having the claiming clause attached is the i opening dash, framed for maiden two-year- • old fillies. SrORT— HIGHLAND FLING— BLANDRIS. There is really little to choose from among the maiden juvenile fillies, which are to make the issue in the initial dash. SPORT. I from the Greentree Stable, has a couple of I good races to her credit, however, and is I given the preference. Her first start here was a fair effort, but her last time out she 1 ran a poor race. The company may have i been a bit too much for her. HIGHLAND FLING has shown better than any of the otheis, and may be good enough to land the i place money today. BLANDRIS is tabbed for third, for want of something better. POLAR SEA— APPLE PIE— ASTER. The second race appears to be a good spot for the W. J. Salmon racer POLAR SEA to register a win. He is the class of this field and only has to turn in his usual good ef- ; fort to be the one to beat this band to the wire. This will be the first start for the Polymelian gelding at this track, but his workouts indicate that he is ready for a win- ning trip the first time out. APPLE PIE has one winning race to her credit over this track, she being a winner here last fall, and i a race to her best style today should be good enough for some part of the coin in this com- , pany. ASTER is capable of landing among the first three if he races in his best manner. DIGNUS— BUCKY HARRIS— EUCLID. With considerable weight off today, DIGNUS should go well enough to register a win. She raced well last time out to lose a close decision to Sunsard and Lady Marie and, with her favorable impost today, we expect her to race in much better style. BUCKY HARRIS looms as the one to beat, but he is to pack 117 pounds and that may tend to prevent him from winning. He raced well in the Inaugural Handicap and is bound to prove troublesome today. EUCLID should have benefited from his only start here and may be the one to account for the show part of the purse. WILLIE K.— CROSSCO— COMET. The manner in which WILLIE K. won his last race makes him appear to be the best betting proposition on the card in the fourth race. He appeared to have found his best s t 1 ] ; i : ] i i • I I I 1 i i ; i , speed again and, when fit, is no easy horse to beat. He is to carry a favorable impost today, and we can see no good reason why he shouldnt add this purse to his credit. CROSSCO was a mighty useful filly while racing over the New Orleans tracks, and she rates as the most probable contender in this field. COMET gave WILLIE K. somewhat of an argument in their last meeting, and if he elects to race in the same style here should get the show portion of the purse at least. BUCKY HARRIS is entered in this race also, but we do not concede him much of a chance as he is best suited to the sprinting distances. LUCIE ANN— FIRE FAIR Y— TROJIS. The J. E. Beall filly LUCIE ANN turned in a surprise win in her last start and, if that showing was no fluke, she should be good enough to make it two in a row. She is to carry the same weight as she did in her winning essay last time out and is meeting practically the same grade of performers. FIRE FAIRY was also winner of her last start, but she did not have such an easy time of winning and did not race in such fast time as did LUCIE ANN. She may be the contender today. TROJIS only has to race back to her last effort to land some part of the coin. MOROCCO holds an outside chance of upsetting the calculations. COMMISSIONER CAHILL— HIGHLAND CHIEF— ROWLANDS REQUEST. COMMISSIONER CAHILL looks like a good betting proposition in the sixth number, over the mile and a sixteenth distance. While he has yet to win a race at this meeting, his three starts to date have all been fairly good ones and, with weight off today, we look for him to prove best. HIGHLAND CHIEF may be the one to furnish the most oppesition, basing on his winning effort his first time out here. He is asked to traverse a longer distance tcday, however, and we doubt if he can carry his impost over the added distance to a successful conclusion. ROWLANDS REQUEST won in easy fashion his last time out, but he is picking up seven pounds over that start and we believe that it will tend to bring him back to the others. ROBERT MANDEL— EVERGLADE— FAST MAIL. The final race on the program seems to be a good spot for ROBERT MANDEL. to land in front of his opponent. He has been turning in some fast trials and, with but 105 pounds in the saddle today, we look for him to give a good account of himself. EVERGLADE put up a good effort his last starC and may prove a strong contender for the major portion of the purse if he elects to race in the same manner today. FAST, MAIL will be making his first start of the year in this event but, if he races back to j his morning trials, should make his presence i • felt.
