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1 BOWIE TURF NOTES s : and Capt. P. M. Walker, who has a large string of racers quartered at Pimlico, transferred fifteen members of the establishment to Havre de Grace, Friday. Jockey R. Merritt will be available to ride the horses. Grand Slam, formidable aspirant for Kentucky Derby honors and which races for the Bomar Stable, was moved from the old J. K. L. Ross farm, where he put in the winter months, to Havre de Grace on Friday morning by trainer Robert E. Potts. Grand Slam is being pointed for the Chesapeake Staves to be run at the Susquehanna course on April 18. George Palmer, who will serve on the official family at Havre de Grace, beginning with the meeting opening on Monday, checked in from Hot Springs and was a visitor at Bowie on Good Friday. The entire string of the Araho Stable will be transferred to Havre de Grace on Sunday by trainer Robert Curran. Jockey W. Ray will accompany the shipment, which will include New Deal and others. Charles J. McLennan stated that the weight assigned to Mrs. C. Cranes sprinter, Ladfield, in the Harford Handicap to be run on Monday, should have read 114 pounds, instead of 116, as sent out in the list of weights released on Thursday. Francis P. Dunne, who serves as assistant racing secretary on all tracks in New York and who is at present serving as patrol judge at Bowie, will leave for Jamaica on Sunday to prepare for the opening of the metropolitan season. Walter E. OHara, president of the Nar-ragansett Racing Association, returned for his second visit of the meeting and will remain to witness the performance of New Deal in the Southern Maryland Handicap on Saturday. Jack Cartier, agent for the Araho Stable, is distributing stake blanks for the Narra-gansett Racing Association to horsemen at Bowie. Nominations for the stakes at the Rhode Island course close on April 15. William Trundle has been appointed to serve as starter for the hunt meeting to be staged at Middlesburg, Va., on Saturday and Wednesday. Harry Richards, who is leading the list of riders during the present meeting at Bowie, is considering an offer to ride for Mrs. Walter E. OHara, owner of the Araho Stable. Richards expects to make his decision known in a few days. Marshall Cassidy, who is serving as steward for the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, stated that he would leave for New York on Sunday. Cassidy serves in a similar capacity for the New York State Racing Commission on all tracks in the New York area. Joe Grossman, former sporting editor of the San Diego Sun, and now employed by the New York State Racing Commission, stopped over at Bowie en route to the Empire State from California.
