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PREAKNESS CANDIDATE * Indian Love Call Qualifies by Defeating Jopagan. ♦ Island Farm Stables Polymelian Colt Runs Three -Quarters in 1:12% at Havre de Grace. ♦ HAVRK OK CRACK. Md . April 21— Indian Love Call scored the first success for the Island Farm Stable. Marylands own Preakness candidate making his first appearance of the year, qualified handsomely for that event and jockey H. Thomas failed to add any laurels as a rider at Havre de Onset today. The foregoing all happened during the running of the feature. National Vaudeville Artists Handicap, and it was fast running, too. because Indian Ix ve Call covered the distance in 1 :12% over a track that had been drenched during the previous night, but which was rapidly recovering under the influence of sun and mild breezes. It ding instructions may have had something to do with Jopagans defeat. Possibly he was not keyed up as much as owner-trainer Al Weston believed. It would have been necessary .for the colt to last to be in top form for the first quarter in :23, the half in :!G*i and then survive a charge by such a seasoned campaigner as Indian Ix ve Call, to which he was being asked to concede •even pounds. WORKMANS GOOD RIDE. Workmans handling of Indian I.ove Call was in vast contrast with Thomas tactics. The Island Farm candidate was permitted to settle fully in stride while Jopagan was hard ridden from the start in the effort to overtake the slight lead that The Heathen was trying to hold. Jopagan answered gamely and finally headed the Fierce candidate, another seasoned campaigner, entering the stretch, but was guided a bit too close to the inner rail. Indian Iove Call had worked his way past Contemplate and finally wore the Weston colt down. The need of another tightener or two for him was shown when Contemplate came again through the final eighth and finished only a half-length behind Jopagan. The colt came out of the race in satisfactory style and showed enough to warrant the general expression that he will prove a logical contender when Preakness Day rolls around. The track changed rapidly through the afternoon as the time in several races showed. It almost approached a fast condition in the running of the final race. Indian Ijve Calls time equalled that which Triton made in the Harford Handicap here last Saturday over an acknowledged fast track. Blue Rose, a nimble-footed home-bred filly from across the Rockies, scored her first brackets for the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, when she took the four and a half furlongs of the opener, a maiden race that summoned fourteen platers. Sent away speedily from the harrier by the alert Peternel and from a good start, she quickly relieved Apple Pie of the lead and held sway through the stretch, to hold Shorty safe by a length at the end. The latter had a rough journey. Away none too well, he was shuffled through the first e:ghth. got clear through the stretch, only to have the leader swerve in front of him at the eighth post. He might have been returned winner with better racing luck. Maryland Hoy acted badly at the start. Apple Pie will probably improve. OLTILKTTIS FIRST WINNER. The popular Sagamore Stable registered its first victory of the year and so did Frank Coltiletti in the second race, a three-quarters da h. The chestnut colt Superside. proved the medium. Away in his stride, he quickly settled down and it was from fourth running position into a pace forcing job, rounding the turn. Ciant. which had been showing the way. easily surrendered there and the Sagamore pride went to a lead which he held with difficulty at the end. liant lasted long enough to take second place from the fast finishing Arlesian, which showed slight improvement over his previous performance. possibly due to the softened track condition. Bucephalus, from the W. J. Salmon Stable, showed some si eed, but generally raced as though short. Irsa Major, the four-year-old from the W. J. Salmon staMe and of which so much was expected as a juvenile, found a band he could h at in the three-quarter mile third race. He found little difficulty taking the lead from "hink early in the race. Maiben Continued on sixteenth pace PREAKNESS CANDIDATE Continued from first page kept him in the better going in the middle of the track throughout and he was only cantering at the end to show the way by four lengths to Mrs. W. J. Howards racer. W. Barr was of little help to the latter. The consistent Tipperary Mary scored her third victory of the Maryland meetings and overcame what threatened to become one of the sharpest form reversals of the meeting when she got up in time to deprive Sam Louis urieda of the purse in the mile and a sixteenth fifth race. Ourieda. which could not extend herself in her last race, showed surprising speed today. She fought it stubbornly with Sparkling Water for the lead, overcame the Woodlawn Stable candidate entering the stretch, and appeared to have victory safe, when Tipperary Mary got up in time to snatch victory by a half-length. Long Joe also got up in the final strides to take the short end from the tiring Mercedes E., which had been running close to the leaders for the greater part of the journey, but she tired badly in the final sixteenth, under Stevens hard riding.
