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FINAL BOWIE FEATURE Eleven Entered Overnight in ,000 Southern Maryland Handicap. Aneroid Probable Favorite for Eastern Stake Race Corinto Mrs. Denemarks Representative. BOWIE, Md., April 12. The last and most important stake of the Bowie spring season will be decided with tomorrows running of the ,000 added Southern Maryland Handicap. Eleven have been entered overnight in this mile and a sixteenth affair, with Aneroid, conqueror of Seabiscuit at Santa Anita during the winter, and a horse capable enough to win the 1937 Suburban, topping the group under an impost of 129 pounds. The five-year-old son of The Porter and Outburst should be well tested under the handicap arrangement, as there are several keen formidables which have been thoroughly conditioned in racing over the track at this meeting, while his training has been done at Pimlico. Jack Campbells program is decidedly the I best of the twelve-day session, with a six-furlong handicap drawing an extremely well balanced field and the remaining events all giving promise of first-rate racing. Only a continuance of fair weather is needed. CARRYING TOP WEIGHT. Aneroid, fifth in the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap, after being a forward factor for the first mile and a furlong, is being asked to pack nine pounds more than he shouldered in the early March event. However, the distance is three-sixteenths of a mile shorter than the California race, and his opposition is considered strong.. If he is thoroughly fit he should be able to win. His most recent mile was accomplished at Pimlico in 1:44, with something to spare over a track which was not at its best. One must assume that hes sharp and good if he goes to the post, as a hard race over the trying Bowie track with 129 up certainly would be Continued on fifteenth page. FINAL BOWIE FEATURE Continued from first puye.J harmful to a horse not in good physical condition. Burning Star, one of the top three-year-olds of 1937 but a failure in two starts this year at Hialeah Park is slated to make his first appearance since the Widener Challenge Cup in the mid-week stake. He is second on the weight list with 124 as his portion. CHANCES UNCERTAIN. The son of Big Blaze has been going steadily in recent training, but the fact that he raced poorly over the Bowie oval last fall indicates he may not favor the footing. For this reason the writer cannot show great enthusiasm over his chances. He should do better when he hits the firmer track at Havre de Grace. Piccolo, winner of the McLennan Memorial Handicap at Hialeah last winter, appears keenest of the Florida campaigners slated to go. The mud was against him in Saturdays stake outing, but a fast track, coupled with his 110-pound impost, indicates he should go in far better fashion. He is the only entrant, aside from Aneroid, with a major event to his credit this year. The Providence-owned High Velocity, best horse in the barn of H. P. Metcalf, proved himself a thoroughly fit horse in his recent breezing victory over the track with 118 pounds up. In tomorrows stake he should be assigned half a dozen less and he shapes up as one of the huskiest factors in the event. The four-year-old son of Abbots Nymph Big Sally has yet to win an important race, though there are many who thought he was first home in the Yankee Handicap at Suffolk Downs last summer when the camera gave the decision to War Minstrel. With Aneroid absent he holds a corking chance of entering the ranks of stake winners. . LATE DEVELOPMENT. Busy K., a late development during 1937, won the Bryan and OHara over this track last November, beating, among others, Calumet Dick and Burning Star. On that occasion he packed 106 pounds, while tomorrow he will have 116 aboard in his first 1938 outing. Challephen, also an excellent Bowie horse, was fitted in the Spring Handicap last Saturday, where he finished third to Sun Egret. Singers Folly, fourth in the same stake with 100 pounds up, gets in with a feather of 95 and might be troublesome. In the absence of War Minstrel, Corinto has been selected to represent Mrs. Emil Denemark. Hes a good router and a Miami winner, but its his first of the season and, consequently, no soft spot. Overnight Aneroid looms forth as favorite for the affair, but if he defaults there will be no decided choice, with Burning Star, High Velocity, Piccolo and Chaps drawing the greatest support. Tom Campbell arrived from his Richmond, Va., home to visit his brother Jolm B. for the day. Jockey F. Thorndyke left for Middleburg, Va., to ride in the hunt meeting at that point on Saturday.
