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BIG HORSE COLONY AT BOWIE Ninety-One Thoroughbreds Awaiting Opening of Maryland Season - Many Improvements at Track. BOWIE, Md., Feb. 18 Ninety-one thoroughbreds, the property of thirty-seven owners, are now going through their paces here in preparation for the opening of the 1932 eastern racing season in April. All but a few of the, colony wintered here and, due to the exceedingly mild winter; they are well advanced in training. Many horsemen plan to surprise the owners who have been racing in Florida, New Orleans, Cuba and Mexico since Marylands 1931 season ended. Dick Pending, racing secretary, who underwent an operation several months ago, has returned to the job. Although he has a home in Baltimore, superintendent Pending is living here so that he can give the horsemen every attention Many new improvements to this plant were made by Pending before he entered a Baltimore hospital. He still has numerous other improvements to make before he considers his plant up to the minute. When general manager Joseph B. Boyle and assistant manager Thomas Kirby Lynch return from Florida they will be agreeably surprised with Pendings work. Among the stables quartered here are the following: John J. Farrell, Jr. Golden Spur. J. Kirkpatrick Homelike. Frank Christmas Jorico, Night Signal, Dr. Snowden. W. Denham Bubola, Fair Dawn, Sidney G. and one two-year-old. Jack Bishop Tuffy G., Zion, Referendum and Daddy Nelson. C. Goodpaster Paddock, Meander and one two-year-old. C. Hughes Ruane, Brown Sinner and Jimmy D. Mike Hackett The Marquise, Hop Scotch and Magic Dreamer. C. Patterson Friend. Ernest Hall Dark Vision and Up Set Em. Lenny and Carroll Stable of Washington Five horses. F. Hughes Eight horses. Mrs. Olive Curtis Roy Kay. J. B. Keys Bird Catcher. W. Wright Wild Kitty and one two-year-old. J. Taylor Cloudy, Dim Past, Bessie S. and Walter K. R. Moore Rain or Shine, Vimont, Nat Weise and one two-year-old. Dick Jackson Prairie Girl, Possessed, Prince Neptune and Skirt. W. Helfrich Basket and Justa Primrose. R. Niehaus Uncle Herman. Arthur Brent Song of Songs and Gabriel. Carey Winfrey Sir Largo and Relic. Frank Hayes Syriac. J. Keyser Triple Threat, Rain King, Princess Wrack and one two-year-old. R. Pending Ima Queen, Sixty Ninth and Time Enough. G. Goodacre Grand Acre and one two-year-old. A. Covington Rose Hogan. R. McCrann Wandering Jim. F. Park Nonenicer. W. Foster -Happy Jack. J. Stanton Fire Line and Cupidity. Nat Ray Wolfs Run, Blaze White, Van-nell and Party Boots. Owen Pons Turkeys Neck, Bold Robin and London Rock. W. Aliens-Brilliancy and Peace Trogan. J. Lawler Gumtree and How. W. Leggett Dick Bennet. The racing strip has been kept open all winter. There is little or no frost in the ground and the thoroughbreds are beginning to step lively in their morning exercises.
