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T" BOWIE TURF NOTES $ $ Porters Mite, owned by W. E. Boeing of Seattle and winner of the Futurity last fall, was breezed six-furlongs in 1:14 at Havre de Grace Monday morning. Walter Carter shipped Clodion to Jamaica Monday morning to prepare for the Pau-monok Handicap, Saturdays feature. He will keep Ranchos Girl here to start in the Kindergarten. Jockey Stevenson will do the riding. Trainer John Loftus worked Pompoon over the Pimlico strip Monday morning a mile in 1:45 as a part of his preparation for the Dixie Handicap. Be Jabbers came out of his last race lamed, according to trainer R. A. Coward. Stake books for the Havre de Grace meeting were distributed among horsemen Tuesday by John Turner. Jockev Earl Porter was an arrival from Florida and will ride here. Walter Carter will ship from here to Jamaica for the opening of the Metropolitan season. Jockey George Witmer will ride at Charles Town, according to an application filed Monday morning for a license in that state. Dave Woods, of the Maryland Jockey Club, announced Tuesday that the spring stakes at Pimlico closed with the following number of nominations: Oaks, 68; Dixie Handicap, 62; Baltimore Spring Handicap, 29; Rennert i. o- TT 3 ! 04. "Vfnf- iianaicap, 00; ijuungs xatiiiuitup, 01, iuao-querader, 88; Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, 25; Jennings Handicap, 33; Survivor, 37; Carroll Handicap, 27; Pimlico Nursery, 106. The supplementary nominations to the Preakness close on Saturday. Walter A. Carter will ship Ranchos Girl to New York on Thursday. Hirsch Jacobs is splitting his stable, sending some to Havre dc Grace and the rest to New York. Max Smart sent fourteen horses to Havre de Grace Tuesday. He has ten more to go over when this meeting ends.
