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BOWIES FEATURE RACES Outstanding Attraction for Every Day of Coming Meeting. 1 Inaugural Handicap Headliner on Opening Day, April 1 Rowe Memorial Handicap April 9. 4 BOWIE, Md., March 26. Thirty feature races, including a trio of ,000 events, are included in the book issued by secretary Joseph McLennan for the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations eleven-day spring meeting, beginning April 1. McLennan has arranged for forty sprint and thirty-seven races over a distance of ground. This sort of program, providing the weather is good, should enable the host organization to offer bang-up racing at all times. There are more than 1,200 horses already in this sector, with every train from the north, east, south and west unloading additional thoroughbreds, so that the forthcoming meeting wont lack capable performers. An even dozen two-year-old races, all to be decided over the half-mile distance, have been carded. Three races will be run at five furlongs, eight at five and one-half furlongs, seventeen at six furlongs, an even dozen at one mile and seventy yards, seventeen at one and one-sixteenth miles and eight at one and one-eighth miles. DAILY FEATURES. The list of daily features as arranged by secretary McLennan follows: April 1 ,000 Inaugural Handicap, at six furlongs, for three-year-olds and over; Promenade Purse, at five and one-half furlongs, for three-year-old colts and geldings, and the Old Virginia Purse, at a mile and seventy yards, for four-year-olds and over. April 2 Spring Handicap, at one mile and seventy yards, for three-year-olds and over; Capitol Purse, at five furlongs, for three-year-olds, and the Aspirant Purse, at four furlongs, for two-year-olds. April 4 Attractive Purse, at five and one-half furlongs, for three-year-old fillies, and the Midway Purse, at one mile and seventy yards, for four-year-olds and over. April 5 Flash Handicap, at .five furlongs, for three-year-olds and over; Page Brook Purse, at five and one-half furlongs, for three-year-olds, and the Valor Purse, at a mile and one-sixteenth, for four-year-olds and over. April 6 Martha Washington Handicap, at five and one-half furlongs, for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and over, and the Parkway Purse, at a mile and seventy yards, for three-year-olds. April 7 Bennings Handicap, at a mile and one-sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over; Mount Royal Purse, at a mile and seventy yards, for four-year-olds and over, and the Calvert Purse, at six furlongs, for three-year-olds and over. April 8 Hollybeach Purse, at six furlongs, for three-year-olds and over, foaled in Maryland, and the Ken Oak Purse, at a mile and seventy yards, for four-year-olds and over. ROWE MEMORIAL. April 9 ,000 Rowe Memorial Handicap, at a mile and seventy yards, for three-year-olds; White Marsh Handicap, at five and one-half furlongs, for three-year-olds and over; Glyndon Purse, at four furlongs, for two-year-olds, and the Old Dominion Handicap, at a mile and one-sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over. April 11 Mount Vernon Purse, at six furlongs, for four-year-olds and over; District Line Purse, at five and one-half furlongs, for three-year-olds, and the Madonna Handicap, at a mile, and seventy yards, for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and over. April 12 ,500 Bowie Kindergarten Purse, at four furlongs, for two-year-olds; Fads and Fancies Purse, at five and one-half furlongs, for three-year-old fillies, and the Middle Classes Purse, at a mile and one-sixteenth, for four-year-olds and over. April 13 ,000 Baltimore Handicap, at a mile and one-sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over; Au Revoir Handicap, at five furlongs, for three-year-olds and over, and the Century Purse, at a mile and seventy yards, for three-year-olds. General manager Joseph B. Boyle has set the post time for the approaching meeting at 2:30 p. m. This will give race fans ample time to leave both Baltimore and Washington for the days sport.
