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BOWIE TURF NOTES J $ $ Eddie Hoffman is acting as agent for Nick Tromberio, a 105-pound apprentice from Baltimore, and Joe Battiste, who also rides at 105 pounds. Ex-jockey George Schriener is here and will endeavor to have the Maryland Racing Commission restore him to good standing. Nominations for the ,000 Bowie Kindergarten, outstanding two-year-old race of this meeting, close Friday with racing secretary Joseph McLennan. The Kindergarten is a dash of five-eighths of a mile and will be offered for the seventh time Saturday. Heretofore the race was a half mile but due to its being run later than usual, the distance was stretched another eighth of a mile. Nominations for the ,500 James Rowe Memorial Handicap, a mile and seventy yards race to be run a week from Saturday, close next Wednesday with racing secretary Joseph McLennan. This is a race exclusively for three-year-olds. Ral Parr, of Baltimore, has an interest in the chestnut filly foal, by Bright Knight and Fair Advocate, which was born at the Audley Farm in Virginia. Willie Curran of Havre de Grace, has been signed to pilot S. Fursts Bright Bubble in the Kentucky Oaks, to be run Saturday at Churchill Downs. At the conclusion of the Kentucky meeting, Curran will go to Chicago, returning east in time for the opening of Marylands fall season in his home town. Louis Morris, of Washington, who rode Pillory to victory in the 1922 Preakness, is here with several horses. Willie Obert of Laurel, Americas oldest active jockey, has gone to Canada where he will ply his trade this summer.
