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. i I J . | f I j a I a i i f j j t l i . a i ! t , , s , , j j , J i T j , t i ; : ■ 1 CLICK STAKE WINNER ♦ High Time Colt Accounts for Rich Aberdeen Stakes. » . Flippant Scores in One Mile and a Sixteenth Trial Handicap at Havre de Grace. • HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 28.— Click, the chestnut colt by High Time — Photo, which Max Hirsch trains for the Pittsburg sportsman E. M. Byers, defeated a band of the best two-year-olds in training here when he galloped home an easy winner in the 0,000 added Aberdeen Stakes this afternoon. A. P. Canales High Score was second, a length and half back of the winner and then followed Samuel Ross Too High, another son of High Time. The Nevada Stock Farm Stables Chicleight was fourth. There were twelve starters and they were well behaved band. When the barrier was released Peter Snow beat the others away, but before they had gone a sixteenth. Click had taken command. He carried Chicleight along at a rapid pace. Entering the home stretch Weiner shook Click up and he drew away into a four lengths lead and the race was over so far as a contest went. Chicleight quit under punishment, while High Score, which hugged the rail entering the home stretch, moved into second place and remained there to the end. Too High, carried wide at the turn out of the back stretch, finished with a good burst of speed and at the finish was going fastest of all. The Aberdeen Stakes had a net value of ,725 to the winner. Click ran his four and a half furlongs in :55%, the first quarter in :25%, and the half mile in :48%, a fast pace considering the heavy track. UNPLEASANT AFTERNOON. Despite a steady drizzle and a most unpleasant afternoon for outdoor sport, a large crowd turned out. The races were run over heavy track and withdrawals in a majority of the races were numerous. The track at Havre de Grace dries out rapidly and, with a promise of clear skies predicted by the weather man, the track on Monday may be fast. The erratic racer Care Free was in what looked like a soft spot in the first race and the public eagerly accepted odds on his chances. Care Free performed the stunt he occasionally shows of refusing to join his opponents when the start came. In todays effort he stood at the post. Farceur was the one to make the pace, and led into t e home stretch where Fire Opal began closing up. The latter finished with rare gameness to get up in the final strides to beat the tiring Farceur by a head. Three lengths away followed Sir Barley, and then came Pleasant Smiles another three lengths away. Ruban Rouge, that steady going old campaigner, accounted for th: second race under claiming conditions at a mile and a quarter. Ridden by L. Schaefer and following the others in the early ttages, Ruban Rouge moved up on the outside on the far turn and in the run through the home stretch finished in resolute fashion to outstay Valentino in the final drive. Ruban Rouge won going away at the end by half a length. Valentino, which led from the start, beat Turquoise by six lengths for second place and then came Ed Pendleton eight lengths further back. The field was strung out in Indian file at the end. FOUR STARTERS. Bruno, Arno and Greenock were withdrawn from the Flash Handicap, leaving four to go. Dignus was the favorite. A speedy mare and a good mudlark, she had th call over her opponents and made good in handsome fashion. Starter Milton sent them away promptly to a moving start. Reprove propped and refused to join the others and stood at the post Dignus, quickest to get going, went to the front and in the first eighth drew away into an easy lead. Little Vad her under slight restraint. Tuskegee was running second, but appeared to be laboring. He stumbled just before reaching the half mile post and was never a serious factor thereafter. Entering the home stretch he made a wide turn and in the final eighth dropped out of it. Dignus had an eight lengths lead at the finish and Tuskegee beat Dust Broom by two lengths for second place. Gilbert Cook proved best of the cheap band of platers that wen* to the post in the sixth race, which called for a journey over the mile and a quarter distance. In the early running Admirer went to the front and made the pace until rouraing the far turn, where Gilbert Cook moveu up to take command. Once in front he remained there, and at the finish he led the favored Parchesie by a length. Ten lengths back followed the tiring Leger, which, in turn, beat Altissimo by a length- for third place Max Hirsch saddled his second winner of the afternoon when he sent Flippant to the post for the Sage Stable in the second race, and incidentally it was F. Weiners second winning mount. Flippant showed that he is a good mudlark when he went to the speedy Verdi rounding the .urn into the back stretch to take command and drew away into an easy lead. Weiner took him in hand at the half mile post and for the remainder of the trip he held command of the situation, winning with plenty in reserve at the finish by two lengths and a half from the Seagram Stables Sir Harry. The latter was a head in front of Verdi, with Nealon Kay beaten off fifteen lengths.
