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HAVRES FINE CARD ♦ Canter Successfully Carries J. E. Griffith Silks in Bayview Purse. ♦ Edisto Proves Surprise Winner — Jockey C. Rummers Auspicious Return to the Saddle. ♦ HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April T9.— Canters clever accounting for the Bayview Purse. Edistos surprising score in the Congressional Handicap, the first and impressive appearance of the year of E. B. McLeans Jock, were some of the outstanding incidents of an unusually attractive midweek program at Havre de Grace today. Secretary Joseph McLennan was worthy of the wide compliments he received on the program offering which was contested over a fast track, but under lowering skies, attended by summerlike humidity. Top coats were a burden to those of the large attendance who cared not to gamble with Harford Countys brand of Maryland spring weather. Canter not only scored the first victory of the year for the popular J. K. Griffith silks, but enabled Clarence Kummer to ride his first winner since the close of the 1925 racing season. The veteran showed himself the same keen judge of pace that he has always been by taking Canter into the lead at the start and keeping him there under the following steady pace, 3S%. :47, 1:12%, l:10y5 and 1:47. The famous white and blue polka dots of Foxhall Keene were carried in second position by his home-bred Topboot for three-quarters or until that flashy big horse quit when challenged by the much improved Grenier. The latter made such a determined challenge entering the final eighth that Kummer, on Canter, administered a few precautionary lashes of the whip and Canter responded to finally take the verdict by a length. Grenier was an easy though tired second, six lengths in advance of Edward Gray, while Topboot and Irsa Major followed in the order named. MARYLAND VICTORY. The victory was popular, both because It was a true Maryland one and for the added fact that it buoyed the hopes of the form players, who were slowly but surely developing the belief that a victorious favorite was quite an impossibility at Havre de Grace. Canter had been played to the exclusion of the others on the strength of his inrformance in the Harford Handicap on oi ening day. Netta Run, a chestnut juvenile daughter of Runantell— Netta H., ridden by L. Schaefer in the R. B. Deans colors, took the half mile of the opener in convincing fashion. Away none too well, she worked her way up on the outside of the leaders and took the lead in the final eighth to win going away from Turkeys Neck. J. W. Bean owned and bred, like the winner, a member of the field group. The bakers dozen that faced starter Milton caused some delay by their milling, but the start was a good one. Jacksonville. Disette and The Maid were prominent for the first quarter. When The Maid bore out slightly entering the straightaway. Disette slipi cd into the lead along the rail, but her advantage was short lived. Netta Run was full of run and she appeared easily best. The Lure, a highly considered one from the R. E. Watkins barn, was shuffled back soon after the start and was in difficulty throughout. Golden Fair, a smart looking one from the Foxcatcher Farms barn, was kicked while at the barrier and then was shuffled about considerably during the race. VIRGIXIA-BRKD WINNFR. The Code, Virginia-bred and owned by A. J. Sullivan, trained by Bob McKeever and capably ridden by D. Emery, made every post a winning one in the three-quarter mile second race. The son of The Porter was away fast, while Suky, the favorite, began lengths behind the others and was rushed up on the outside into second position as they were rounding the turn. It was poor judgment. The filly was still making an effort to catch the leader while straightening for home. C rider steady riding she might not have run out, but she did, and Workman spent the rest of the time trying to straighten her out. She finished in mid-track to take second place honors a head in advance of the persistent May Fair, which had been helping Whizzing Cloud to force the pace the greater part of the distance. The winner was just another of the surprises which seem an inevitable thing of Havre de Grace spring meetings. While there might exist in some quarters doubt of Jocks ability to stay the mile and a quarter, Kentucky Derby distance, those who saw him race the three-quarters in the Kverglades l»urse today are inclined to believe that he can hold his own with any of the eastern three-year-olds at the sprinting distances. Trainer Johnny Schorr has him in splendid form. With the same catlike agility that marked his performances last year. Jock took an almost instantaneous three lengths Continued ou tenth nasej HAWS FINE CARD Continued from first page lead at the start and had five lengths to spare entering the stretch. Lang let him get into the deeper going along the rail, but ho was only cantering at the end to show the way by a big margin to Pillotta, Candy Pig and five otners which included the unfortunate Titina and the poorly ridden Pleasant Smiles. The Seagram Stables Edisto provided another of the days upsets when he took the mile and seventy yards of the Congressional Handicap from Joy Smoke, the Island Farm Stables Marconi and four others. It was Edisto, under Erickson, at every step from the rise of the barrier. The Canadian-owned had been one of the bad post actors. Marconi and Cudgeller were the others. Joy Smoke bolted out slightly at the start and was bothered slightly in the run to the clubhouse turn but quickly raced into third position behind the flying Edisto and Marconi. The latter moved toward Edisto rounding the turn but hung and Joy Smoke, under the veteran But wells hard urging, took the place a length behind Edisto. Marconi, in third position, led the much improved Prickly Ihat by a length. Cudgeller kept the rail position throi ghout and ran below his general dry Irach form. Flagship, ridden by Workman in the F. Serio colors, gave the favorite players another grasp on life by winning easily in the mile and an ightli sixth race. He raced into immediate leacl with Palmist his closest pursuer. That order was maintained to the finish. Palmist was slowly, but surely, wearing the winner down, which incidentally is one of the few sons of Man • War who is compelled to earn his oats in competition with lowly platen. Dancing Fool ran a good race und -r his burden of 122 pounds to take the ■hart end. He had been far back in the early stages, and made his run on tUe outside rounding the turn.
