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i CRANKS PIMLICO NURSERY TAKES THE FIRST STAKE RACE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS OF THE MEETING. Short Grass Wins the Equity Handicap in a Close Finish with Black Broom — Jockey Taplin Suspended — General Track Gossip. Raltimore, Md.. May 13. — The Pimlico Nursery, one of the annual fixtures of the Maryland Jockey Club, was decided this afternoon and resulted in a victory for Samuel Ross Crank, which led home a good band of juveniles, with Straight Forward second and Alvord third. Mr. Ross had withdrawn Ultimatum, supposedly his chief reliance, from the race. Today was the eighth running of the popular Pimlico Nursery, the condensed history of which is as follows: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1909 Tom Melton 104 Scoville ...,675 :." « % 1910 Stinger 107 C. Grand .. 2.070 :5«»f, 1911 Overman 117 E. Dugan. .. 1.880 :55% 1912 Rock View 107 McTaggart.. 1,010 :54% 1913 Executor 104 C. Turner.. 1.685 £| 1914 The Masquerader.122 J. Rutwell. . 1.600 :54% 1915 Ting-a-Ling 112 E. Ambrose. 1.210 :55% 1916 Crank 114 M. Buxton. 1,440 :55 The card offered for today was an especially good one. In addition to the Nursery, the Hampden Steeplechase and the Equity Handicap were also programmed. Short Grass managed to get up in the closing strides to outgame Rlack Rroom by a short head in the Equity Handicap. The running of the third race was marked by a mishap when Lady London stumbled and fell. Jockey E. Haynes. who had the mount, wns badly shaken up and was forced to cancel the remainder of his engagements for the day. Jockey Taplin was suspended for the rest of the meeting for making engagements to ride this afternoon and breaking the same without offering an excuse or giving reasonable notice. Racebrook has changed hands. The horse, which was owned by the late Mrs. Sidney L. Josephthal, has been bought by Al Davis, tango dancer. Race-brook is exjiected to race on the New York tracks. Ed Vivell, for many years connected with Chambers and Walters as cashier, was an arrival from Porto Rico, where he owns a large pineapple plantation. Mr. Vivell will go from here to Canada for the summer. Charles Quinn has arranged to ship Top o tU* Morning and the remainder of the Frederick Johnson horses to New York on Sunday in the same ear with the strings owned by Larry Carey and J. W. McLelland. James Arthur has repurchased the mare Buzz Around from George Phillips, who claimed her when she was beaten yesterday. Among the visitors at Pimlico this afternoon were J. W. Rurden. New England representative on the Hunts Committee, and Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Acker of Newport. ntimatum was an absentee from the Pimlico Nursery. Trainer P.urch decided to reserve him for New York racing, where he is extensively engaged in some of the more important two-year-old stakes.
