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DANGEROUS ELIGIBLE • Bobashela Qualifies as Contender for Kentucky Derby Honors. Audley Farm Stables Colt Easily Defeats Petee-Wrack, Sortie, Typhoon and Solace. ♦ ! HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. April 30.— The Audley Farms Bobashela, a bay colt by Ormondale — Trappoid. was an easy winner of the 0,. j0 added Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace this afternoon. Starting with a field of the best three-year-olds in training and ridden by Fisher, the Audley Farm colt made a runaway affair of the race and scored in easy fashion, beating the Kenton Farm Stables Derby candidate. Typhoon, by four lengths. A. C. Schwartz Sortie was third, beaten four lengths for second place. The Seagram Stables Solace was fourth. There were eleven starters, and the field was dispatched promptly from a walk-up start. The field left the post in alignment, but in the run to the first turn Bobashela drew away into a lead of a length, which he increased to two in the run down the back stretch. Typhoon was second and Sortie third. They ran in this order until the turn into the home stretch, where the leader began drawing away, increasing his advantage at the last quarter. Petee-Wrack raced in fourth place to the stretch turn, where he began tiring. He finished in sixth place, beaten by a length and a half by Jack Hip-gins. Bobashela is one of the Audley Farms candidates for the Kentucky Derby and on the form he showed this afternoon looms up as a dangerous factor for that race. He ran the mile and a sixteenth todav in l:45Vfe, the fractional time for the first mile being :23%, :47%, 1:12%, 1:39%. The race was worth ,250 net to the winner. The closing day of the meeting brought out an immense gathering. A majority of the stables that participated in the meeting moved over to Pimlico. The remainder scattered to many different racing points, where meetings are scheduled to begin in the immediate future. George Wideners filly Roseling. ridden by Morris, scored an easy victory in the first race when she came from behind in the stretch to easily dispose of Jubilee. The lat- Continued on twentieth pajre. DANGEROUS ELIGIBLE Continued from first page. ter, a full sister to Prince of Wales, was made favorite and attracted considerable support. ODonnell got her away well and in the early stages raced Ivmd and head with the Kilmer entry, Sun o Chen. Straightened out in the stretch. Jubilee drew away only to tire in the last sixteenth, where Roseling caught and passed her to win going away at the end by two lengths. Jubilee, under punishment, beat Marion May half a length for second place and then followed Little E another neck back. W. F. Mulholland, the clever young horseman, assistant trainer to A. J. Joyner, saddled his second winner of the afternoon when he sent Joyners crack three-year-old, Prompter, to the post in the second race, a dash of three-fourths mile for which Single Star was a well played favorite. Prompter, ridden by Robertson, raced Body Guard into defeat in the early stages, and after they had gone one-half mile drew away to win at the end by four lengths. Body Guard was a length and a half in front of Alana Bay. Single Star, prominent in "the run down the back stretch, faded out of the picture in the last quarter. This filly has evidently staled off. She lacks the dash she showed in her first few efforts this spring. It was a close finish between Frances Rock and King Carter at the finish of the third race. The official placing gave the race to Frances Rock. Palumbo had the mount on the winner. Taking back in the early stages, he waited until straightened out on the back stretch before making his move. When he made his move he went through next to the inner rail and, passing the half mile post, took command to draw away into a long lead. This stood her in hand, for she tired badly the last eighth and just did manage to last long enough. King Carter was gaining with a burst of speed at the end after working his way up on the outside on the far turn and entering the home stretch. Sam Smith was third, eight lengths back. Gaff-ney, after showing early speed, quit and was last at the finish. The Seagram Stable furnished the winner of the Greenwich Purse, when its Canadian-bred Beau of the West took his opponents into camp in easy fashion. Beau of the AVest, ridden in a confident manner by Pichon, trailed his field until on the far turn, where he moved up on the inside. Entering the home stretch, the Seagram horse came through next to the rail and saved ground enough to place him on even terms with Nealon Kay. In the final eighth Beau of the West shook off opposition and at the finish was going away. He had a length advantage over the tiring pacemaker, Nealon Kay, at the end. Willie K. was third, beaten by a head for second place. The latter went much farther than any other horse in the race. He was on the outside for the entire distance.
