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j . ■ t i i ; , i i , | ; | j , I • | ; ■ j | 1 I i: : I I I i I . t . EXCITING FINISHES - ♦ Mark Wednesdays Racing At Havre de Grace Course. The Bat Wins the Bayview Purse — Improved Joy Smoke Takes Delaware Handicap. • HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 22.— With a return of bright skies and warm weather together with an excellent program, there was another big crowd out for the racing that was served up by the Harford Association. Most of the finishes were excitingly close and some of the races brought together a nice band of horses. The two best » offerings of the day were the Bayview, for three-year-olds, that fell to H. P. Whitneys The Bat, and the Delaware Handicap, in which Edward F. Whitneys Joy Smoke, racing in improved form, was first from thi» Glen Riddle Farm Stables Ten Minutes, with Sunsini third. In the Delaware there was some delay at the post, for which Ten Minutes was chiefly to blame. Finally he was taken to the outside and a good start resulted with Red Wingfield the one to be away at a sprinting clip. Through the backstretch Joy Smoke put Red Wingfield away and Wallace made the fatal mistake of attempting to go through on the inside with Ten Minutes. The result was that he ran up on the heels of Red Wingfield and was crowded back. In the meantime Ambrose began his move on the outside with Sunsini and he raced with Ten Minutes, but it was not for long. The Hour-less horse, when back in his stride again after the mistake of Wallace, quickly regained his lost ground and was again showing the way to Sunsini, but he was still lengths back of Joy Smoke. WALLACE LOSES GROUND. The leader swung into the stretch well clear and there Wallace lost ground with Ten Minutes, but Ambrose went even wider with Sunsini. In the run home Ten Minutes held Sunsini perfectly safe, but he could not wear down Joy Smoke, though he saved second place readily from the Lilane Stable hope. With a better ride it is probable that Ten Minutes would have been the winner. There were sixteen junipers went to tho post for the steeplechase of the day, and it marked the largest field that ever raced over the Havre de Grace course. There was only one that did not complete the journey, whoa Stoekmar unseated T. Fennessey on the flat The race produced an excellent contest and fell to Mrs. Farrars imported fencer Double Tip, that formerly raced for the Queen City Stable. He was well ridden by McCloskey and at the end was showing the way to Peccant, and Fane Lady, another importation, was third, with the others strung out Little time was lost at the post and the start was a good one. Draft was the one to go out in the lead and he was followed by Trapstick, with Fane Lady and Peccant not far away. Double Tip raced forwardly and the others were in a fairly close buneh. Draft went wide most of the way while Mergler also kept Peccant well out from the flags where there was less chance for interference. It was in the back field that for an instant Trapstick went to the front but Draft was racing strongly and he was back in the lead and still going strongly. But Peccant was under double wraps and when Mergler shook him up he readily went into the lead and looked all over a winner. Then it was that Double Tip began to move up while Fane Lady also moved up with a determined rush. It was not until well into the front field the last turn of the course that Double Tip could wear Peccant down but he had him beaten at the last fence to come on and win going away. CLOSEST FINISH OF DAY. In a day of close finishes, one of the best came in the running of the three-quarters of the Bayview Purse, when H. P. Whitneys The Bat just boat the Seagram Stables Edisto, with Charles A. Mills Millwick a fast closing third to beat Goldpieee. No time was lost at the barrier and the start was a good one with Goldpieee first to show in front but he did not have speed enough to draw out from his company and Damon Runyon went right along with him. Right at the start Golden Star bolted slightly and interfered not a little with Edisto knocking him out of his stride. it was not until ncaring the far turn that Parke moved up strongly with The Bat and he joined the leaders though in close quarters between Goldpieee and Damon Runyon. This was the order at the head of the strecth and there Edisto began his move but he was forced to go exceedingly wide. The leaders were battling along closely lapped all through the last eighth where The Uat forged to the front just enough to be tho winner but Edisto was closing with a rush on the outside that would have seen him the winner in the next stride. Millwick after his misfor- fontinucd on twelfth page. EXCITING FINISHES Continued from first page. tune at the start, finished fast and with a mighty rush. Field horses dominated the running of the four and a half furlongs of the third for maiden two-year-olds and at the end three of them were fighting it out. Swoop, from the Seagram stable was first, with Zeod second and Pheasant third. Zeod was the one to cut out most of the running but Swoop was never far away and through the stretch he proved to have more left. Pheasant was going well at the end while Zeod was weakening from his term of pacemaking. Herbert in this was forced to go wide to find racing room and was galloping strongly at the end. The limit number of fifteen went to the post in the three-quarters of the second race and a thrilling finish developed when J. B. Baillargeons Warehouseman just beat home Joseph Grandls Sister Sue, with Freedoms Call lapped on the pair of them and Muskallonge was a fast closing fourth. There was some delay at the barrier, but the start was a good one and early in the action the placed horses found their way to the front. Freedoms Call, Warehouseman and Sister Sue raced forwardly all the way, while Muskallonge met with some early interference and when he was not able to take a forward position he was forced to go wide at the head of the stretch to find racing room. From there to the finish he was running over horses, but it was too late and Warehouseman outgamed Sister Sue and Freedoms Call in a long drive. Flying Cloud, from the Pastime Stable, gave Johnny Maiben a nice easy gallop to win the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth race, G. C. Winfreys George Demar raced to second place, while Belphrizonia saved third. There was little to the running after Cant Say No and Belphrizonia raced into the lead. Flying Cloud raced around them before a half mile had been covered and when he had opened up a good lead, Maiben had only to sit still and permit the big bay to rate along until at the end he was still well under restraint. George Demar closed some ground when called on through the last three-eighths, but at no time threatened the winner, while Belphrizonia tired when the real pinch came.
