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PIMLICO MEETING ENDS Bowling Brook Proves Only Canter for Marche Militaire Joy Smoke Accounts for Stafford StaffordHandicap Handicap Tasker Purse PurseFalls Falls to Dignus BALTIMORE M L May 1 ° The Bowling Jlrook for threeyearolds 3000 added at threequarters the Stafford Handicap 2000 added at a mile and seventy yards and the Tasker for twoyearolds were offered as features by the Maryland Jockey Club for the closing days program of its spring meet ¬ ing at Pimlico this afternoon The Edward K Whitney stable furnished two of the win ¬ ners Over Lord and Joy Smoke and the lat ters victory came with the running of the Stafford Handicap HandicapThe The Bowling Brook proved little better than a good workout for Marche Militaire Chalmers had him under restraint in the early stages and not until making the turn out of the back stretch did he make a move When released from restraint Marche Mili ¬ taire bounded to the front to draw away into a commanding lead and the finish found Chalmers easing him up and looking back Whatever contention there was in the race was for second place Hec and Son Ami bat ¬ tled it out all the last eighth the former coming from behind to get up in the final strides to beat Son Ami out a head Sport Jtoyal the early pacemaker was beaten off offSCOKES SCOKES UNDER HARD DRIVE DRIVEJ J W Healy who trains Marche Militaire sent another winner to the pest in Dignus which won the Tasker Purse Like Marche IMilitaire Dignus was an oddson favorite and her victory was no easy one Verdi an outsider in the betting forced her to break the track record for the four and a half furlongs to beat him by three parts of a lengths Jn the early stages Dignus went to the front and rounding the far turn raced Into a four lengths lead In the stretch run she began to tire and at the end was under a hard drive driveThe The winner ran the distance in 53 a fifth of a second faster than the previous track record held by Lady Baltimore and 3 alse Face FaceEdwards Edwards and Fletcher gave a great ex ¬ hibition of jockeyship in the first race a threequarters dash for platers in which Contract was favorite The winner was Dream Maker which got up in the final strides to beat Contract by a head Dream Maker lost half a dozen lengths entering the home stretch where he made an extremely wide turn Fletcher finally got him straight ¬ ened out and he came again Contract fastest beginner of them all went to the front and jnacle all of the pace In the stretch run where he began to tire Edwards was more of a handicap than help to him and this was responsible for his defeat defeatSPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR CONTEST CONTESTThe The second race furnished a rousing con ¬ test in which the three placed horses fought it out all through the stretch with Over Lord petting up in the last few strides tc beat Sir Barley by a neck The favorite Vietrix was third beaten by a head for Becond place Victrix was quickest to begin and taking the lead showed in front until the hist twenty yards Over Lord the winner was off slowly but Butwell saving Kround gradually improved his position and when called on in the stretch run Over Lord finished in resolute fashion to get up at the end Balto showed a great burst of speed rounding the far turn where he came from behind with a rush and raced right up to the leaders He was carried extremely wide the entire trip and covered more ground than any horse in the race raceAfter After showing several disappointing races Joy Smoke finally made good when he won the Stafford Handicap The Whitney racer shouldered 122 pounds and conceded lumps of weight to his opponents Butwell rode a jiatient ride on him nursing him along in the early stages and waiting until well around the far turn before he made a move When called on Joy Smoke wont to the pacemaker Cold Stick with a rush and in the stretch run stood a hard drive to beat the lightly weighted Arbitration by a head The latter jnade a determined bid at the top of the stretch but in the final drive tired badly Gold Stick again quit after going threequar ¬ ters tersStott Stott rode a confident race on Martingale Off forwardly he took him in hand on the liaek stretch and i ermitted Modo to go to the front and make the pace At the top of the stretch Martingale assumed an easy lead and at the end drew away at his leisure South Breeze was second He had a bit of bad luck at the first turn where he was shuffled back and Fields then took him to the outside and rounding the far turn moved up with a good burst of speed In the stretch run he easily disposed of JVlodo but could not get to Martingale which licat him by a couple of lengths Modo was third four lengths back and a neck in front of Jacques
