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BOWIE TURF NOTES J 4 : 4 Henry McDaniel will ship the Starmount Stable from Miami to Belmont Park on Saturday. William A. Porter was among the arrivals from Miami. Jerry Brady arrived from Florida and will remain here for the meeting. Starter James Milton stated that schooling hours are from 7:30 to 10 a. m. each day. Schooling will be started at Havre de Grace in a day or two, and during that meeting schooling will be in vogue at Pimlico. Frank Kelley, former track superintendent at Arlington Downs, left for New York after the running of the last race. Dan McAuliffe and G. L. Hamilton arrived from Miami with their horses. The Bowie management announced that on April 10 a race will be named for the motion picture, Captain January, and that a trophy will be presented to the winning owner. Mrs. Payne Whitney will present a handsome bowl to the winning owner of the Rowe Memorial, which will be run on Saturday. M. C. Shea has been appointed racing secretary at Charles Town, which meeting opens on May 30 and concludes on July 4, with thirty-one racing days. George Conway will ship the Glen Riddle Stable of twenty-eight head to Havre de Grace, Thursday, from the farm in Berlin, Md., for that meeting. Preston Burch will transfer the Walter M. Jeffords horses to Havre de Grace, Thursday, and await the opening of Havre de Grace. Twenty-two horses will be included in the Jeffords shipment. Senator D., owned by Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs, was returned to training after a let up following the Miami campaign. George Burke stated that jockey R. Workman would b ehere next Monday to ride, after fulfilling an engagement in Miami on Saturday. Jockey R. Watson is progressing favorably at his home in Toronto, Ont. The boy will be absent from the saddle for another month due to the setting of a broken leg. A division of the W. S. Kilmer stable in charge of Jack Whyte, headed by Ned Reigh, a candidate for the Wood Memorial, will be shipped to Belmont Park from the Virginia farm next Monday. J. W. Hendrick, who raced horses for many years on Maryland and other tracks, died at his Harrisburg, Pa., home during the winter, according to word received here Wednesday. Li. G. Bedwell is here from California with nine horses owned by Robert Riskin and Miss Ethel Hill. Riskin was awarded the motion picture prize for his story "It Happened One Night."