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Bowie Crowds Average 70863 And Mutuel Play 907775 Both Down About 9 Per Cent From 7953 Powder Flask Top MoneyWinning Horse HorseBowie Bowie attendance and parimutuel play at its recent 21 day spring meeting was down approximately eight per cent in each category from the corresponding session of last year However the 1953 spring ses ¬ sion comprised 31 days and was conducted as a combined term with Laurels meeting meetingThe The daily average crowds totaled 10863 during the 21 afternoons of sport from April 12 through last Thursday as com ¬ pared with 11882 per diem during the combined session in 1953 This years daily pan mutuel handle averaged 907775 against last years mean figure of 984059 984059Four Four handicaps and stakes were decided at Bowie this spring They were the tradi ¬ tional Rowe Memorial Handicap won by Brazen Brat Southern Maryland Handi ¬ cap captured by First Aid Bowie Kinder ¬ garten Stakes awarded to Powder Flask and the Bowie Handicap which Eatontown annexed on closing day dayThe The Southern Maryland was the richest of the quartet rewarding First Aid with a capital award of 11950 However the juvenile Powder Flask emerged as the win ningest thoroughbred of the meeting with earnings of 13100 Powder Flask account ¬ ed for two other triumphs besides his score in the Kindergarten First Aid took second honors by virtue of his South ¬ ern Maryland success successWill Will See Loses Purse PurseThe The Kindergarten entailed one of the few occasions that a purse has been taken from a winner of a stakes race C M Gra ¬ hams Will See with Eldon Nelson aboard finished four lengths to the good over Pow ¬ der Flask in new track record time of 58 for the five furlongs too But on May 5 the Maryland stewards announced that James P Watts trainer of the Gra ¬ ham thoroughbreds had been suspended and his case referred to the Maryland Racing Commission The ruling was made after the urinalysis of Will See showed the presence of a drug resembling procaine procaineThe The ruling further stated that Will See had Been disqualified and the purse of the Kindergarten redistributed with Powder Flask the winner winnerJockey Jockey Eldon Nelson engaged in a spirit ¬ ed duel with the veteran Nick Shuk for top riding laurels right to the final curtain and finally won out over the latter by riding two winners on closing day while Shuk was shut out outNelson Nelson moved into real contention for racing honors at Bowie by booting home two winners on the penultimate day of the meeting while Shuk then the leader had one victory on Territory in the feature Nelson going into the final card had had eight victors in three riding days complet ¬ ing a 30720 Daily Double aboard Most Anything in the second race on May 5 He also rode Lady Advocate to a 2380 pay ¬ off in the fourth race that afternoon afternoonNelson Nelson finished with 26 winners to Shuks 25 Nelson also wound up with a better percentage 29 in 91 mounts to Shuks 27 the latter accepting 94 rides ridesCharles Charles Feltner squeezed through in the thetraining training ranks by a onewinner margin marginover over the triumvirate of A F East Deverne DeverneEmery Emery and W L Proctor Feltner saddled saddledContinued Continued on Page FortyNine Bowie Crowds and Play Down About 9 Per Cent CentAverage Average Daily Attendance of 10863 and Handle 907775 907775Continued Continued from Page Fhe seven winners during the 21 days daysMrs Mrs Dodge Sloanes Brookmeade Stable owner of First Aid led the owners in money earning with 18225 on three tri ¬ umphs and two thirds Auburn Farm ran second in earnings gleanings with 15950 15950Complete Complete Bowie statistics statisticsBOWIE BOWIE RACE COURSE April 12 to May 6 21 Days Gross distribution 577850 Net distribution 569500 Daily average net distribution 2711905 Attendance 1 228126 228126Daily Daily average attendance 10863 10863Mutuel Mutuel handle 19063270 19063270Daily Daily average mutuel handle 907775 907775Owners Leading MoneyWinning Owners Owners3rd 1st 2nd 3rd Won Brookmeade Stable 3 3Auburn 2 18225 Auburn Farm 4 4Brysori 4 15950 Brysori EK 6 6Clarke 1 15125 Clarke A T 5 5Rice 4 14950 Rice Ada L 4 4Roberts 6 14525 Roberts A 3 3Lowe 0 14450 Lowe R 5 5Pistorio 1 11625 Pistorio Mrs S M 2 2Hecht 0 10750 Hecht H H 4 4Barclay 0 9175 Barclay Stable 4 0 8825 Leading MoneyWinning Horses Horse HorsePowder 1st 2nd 3rd Won Powder Flask 3 0 0 13100 First Aid 1 0 0 11950 Eatontown 2 0 0 10650 Brazen Brat 1 0 0 785GT 785GTN Freedom Parley N 0 7525 Territory 0 7150 Staffordshire 0 6175 Pet Bully 0 5850 Elberwhirl 0 5250 Barge Wharf 0 5200 Exorbitant 0 5200 Royal Fan Leading Winning Jockeys Jockey Mts ts 1st 2nd 3rd 3rdNelson Unp PC Nelson E 91 26 11 11 11Shuk 43 29 Shuk 94 25 14 14 14Hartack 41 27 Hartack W 84 20 17 13 13Blum 34 24 Blum W 78 14 9 13 13Boulmetis 42 18 Boulmetis S 64 10 14 9 9Small 31 16 Small S 80 10 11 3 3Mitchell 56 12 Mitchell B 38 6 10 4 4McKee 18 16 McKee C 54 6 62 2 2 2Valenti 44 11 Valenti J 42 5 1 4 4Block 32 12 Block H 63 59 4 45 08 Leading Winning Trainers Trainer Trainer Feltner C Forbes J H C East A F Bond B P Emery D Bond J B Proctor W L Campbell J B Archer R B Johnson Judy Bonsai F A Kelly E I Clarke A T Kelly T J Following is the list of stakes that were decided decidedStake Stake Date Winner Value ValueRowe Rowe Memorial Handicap April 17 17Brazen Brazen Brat 7100 Southern Maryland Handicap April 24 24First First Aid 11950 11950Bowie Bowie Kindergarten Stakes May 1 1Powder Powder Flask 9200 Bowie Handicap May 6 6Eatontown Eatontown 7800 7800The The percentage of winning favorites was below normal as shown in the subjoined tabulationNumber tabulation Number of races 169 Winning favorites 5 w Winning second choices 36 Winning 36Winning outsiders 77 77Winners Winners at oddson 7 Defeated 7Defeated at oddson 8 Percentage 8Percentage of winning favorites 34 JDeadheats 34JDeadheats one for wjfij
