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FEATURE TO ADDED STARTER St Valentine Defeats Wrangle in the Spring Juvenile Baby Grand and Captain AlcocK in Rousing Finish in South ¬ ern Handicap BALTIMORE Md May 9 The Mary ¬ land Jockey Club offered as the principal attraction of todays program at Pimlico the sixth running of the Spring Juvenile Stakes and J E Griffith furnished the win ¬ ner of it in a colt of his own breeding and an added starter St Valentine a son of Theo WoolsthorpeThe Cook Katriona by Woolsthorpe The start found the faststarting Jolly on in front with St Valentine the one to race in closest pursuit Wrangle the favorite from a good start dropped back and was outrun to the stretch There was no change in the order until entering the stretch turn where Johnson on Wrangle elected to go to the outside and in a furious drive tried to overhaul the leaders He finished with a wonderful display of speed but too late to be of any avail as SL Valentine gamely held on to the lead and crossed the winning line half a length ahead of the favorite Jolly tired badly in the last eighth after setting a fast pace and lost third place to Faith W in the final strides stridesThe The J 1C L Ross stable scored a double when Baby Grand and Lion dOr carried the Montreal turfmans colors to victory the former in the Southern Handicap and Lion dOr in the sixth race at threequarters of a mile mileBaby Baby Grand furnished a thrilling finish when he headed home the Quincy Stables Captain Alcock in the Southern Handicap which was a dash of a mile The Ross start ¬ er was ridden by jockey Lang and the vic ¬ tory was an immensely popular one The start was a good and fast one the field leaving in perfect alignment Lang was quick to seize the first opportunity to secure the lead and from an inside position hugged the rail and saved ground throughout Bril ¬ liant Jester raced in closest pursuit while Crank and Captain Alcock were far back Baby Grand was momentarily headed by Brillaint Jester after rounding the far turn then came again and drew away from the Seagram stable representative Just when success seemed assured Captain Alcock fin ¬ ishing with terrific speed almost snatched victory in the last stride just failing to get up in a spectacular finish with Baby Grand racing to the limit under Langs vigorous riding to withstand the whirlwind rush of the Quincy Stables standard bearer bearerANOTHER ANOTHER LION DOR SUCCESS SUCCESSLion Lion dOr was asked to beat a rather in ¬ ferior band in the running of the sixth race of the day which was at threequarters of a mile He was the shortestpriced winner of the afternoon and never came out of a canter to go the threequarters in 1 12 The Ross horse was kicked at the barrier and stiffened up a trifle but came out of ii when raced Torchy took second place from Sir Clarence ClarenceWhat What gave promise of developing into a rousing finish came to naught when Oceanna went down at the final jump in the steeple ¬ chase and Bullseye fell over him allowing Earlocker to draw away into an easy vic ¬ tory The race over the twomile course was for horses owned or leased by a member of the Maryland Jockey Club and it brought a good band of steeplechasers to the post Bullseye racing for Mrs Ral Parr was ac ¬ corded confident support and installed the choice The start found Oceanna setting the pace which she maintained throughout En ¬ tering the final turn of the field Crawford allowed Bullseye to move into contention Earlocker which had been raced under re ¬ straint finished with a fine burst of speed and coming to the final jump Oceanna went down and Crawford did not have the time to guide his mount wide and fell over her herFANNIE FANNIE BEANS GOOD RACE RACEB B Hardings Fannie Bean well suited at a mile made a show of her opponents in the third race of the day when sho was home by a wide margin from Sword and Jewell V D The winner was ridden by Lang and accorded considerable support by the public Fannie Bean moved into the lead after passing the halfmile ground and from there on the result was never in doubt doubtThe The Sunnyland Stables Haidee overlooked by the talent was returned winner of tho opening dash of tho afternoon in a drive from Topango while third portion of tha purse fell to Nickname The winner was ridden by jockey Morris and came from behind the pace established by Topango and was drawing clear at the finish Buddugia Continued on tweUth pogeO FEATUBE TO ADDED STARTER Continued from first page went to the post the popular choice and his race was a disappointing one oneFantoche Fantoche was claimed in the last event for 2500 by M R Weist WeistKay Kay Spence trainer for Montfort Jones wired W P Riggs secretary of the Mary ¬ land Jockey Club that he would ship Miss Joy east to fulfill her engagement in ti running of the Preakness Stalls have been prepared for the Jones pair Miss Joy and St Henry and they will arrive here on Thursday evening The news was received with great joy amongst eastern horsemen horsemenReports Reports from New York were that Pirate Gold and Galantman the Greentree Stable pair would be shipped tonight and arrive here in the morning Oceanic the S D Riddle candidate which is credited with working a good mile and a quarter in New York in preparation for the dash will be shipped in the same car carA A meeting of the committee of the Cana ¬ dian Racing Associations will be held at Toronto on Thursday to pass up applications for jockeys and trainers licenses licensesTrainer Trainer Eugene Wayland will ship Ex ¬ terminator from here to Louisville on Thurs ¬ day to fill his engagement in the Kentucky handicaps handicapsTrainer Trainer James Rowe of the Harry Payne Whitney stable will ship Prudish from the Brookdale Farm to compete in the Oaks Should her race be a creditable one she will start in the Preakness Jockey L Morris will ride her in the Oaks OaksJockey Jockey H Erickson was suspended three days by starter Milton for disobedience at the post on Saturday SaturdayE E Trueman has decided to ship eight horses from here to Montreal to compete in the meetings at that point and later race on the Canadian circuit circuitJoseph Joseph McLennan arrived from New York this morning and was busily engaged in ac ¬ cepting license applications for the Canadian meetings He will leave for Toronto to attend the meeting of the C R A at the Woodbine Park track trackJockey Jockey Albert Johnson accompanied by Otto Torrell leaves for Louisville Wednes ¬ day where Johnson will ride Morvich in the Kentucky Derby DerbyT T O Moore owner of Infidel II winner of the jumping raco yesterday was sus ¬ pended by the stewards and denied ad ¬ mittance to the course His case has been referred to the Maryland Racing Commis ¬ sion for further action actionJohn John A Payne and J T West owners of the Kenton Stable were arrivals from Cincinnati this afternoon afternoonGus Gus Quick former owner of a racing stable has entered Johns Hopkins Hospital suffering from dropsy this morning morningJohn John P McGovern who was operated on during the last winter was a visitor at Pimlico this afternoon afternoonThe The Willis Sharpe Kilmer horses which wero stabled at Havre de Grace were shipped to Aqueduct yesterday
