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HAVRE DE GRACE OPENING Jl w TWELVE-DAY MEETING . Bowie Ends With Prince Georges Handicap as Feature. Sylvester Labrots Dinah Did Upset Scores Thrilling Victory Over Sandy Ford. BOWIE, Md., April 12. The Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association meeting of twelve days begins at Havre de Grace Monday with no outstanding attraction, contrary "to the usual custom. Havre de Grace, however, is expected to furnish the stage for the debut of the majority of the great eastern stables, a few of which will probably send some of their stars to the post in the Harford Handicap next Wednesday. The fields for Mondays races are small, but what they lack in quantity should be more than offset by the closeness of the races. Many two-year-olds are scheduled to make their bow in the opening race, the overnight field for which numbers nineteen. Eight of the youngsters have already faced the barrier. The remainder have never started. Young Kitty, the brilliant mare owned by the Seagram Stable, and Ned O., one of the most talked-of candidates for the Kentucky Derby, are eligible and may make their first start of 1930 in the Tip Top Purse, fourth on the program. For the final day of the meeting there was another day of summerlike weather and a tremendous crowd was out. Joseph McLennan had prepared an attractive card for the final day of the meeting and, while selling platers played a big part, fields were well matched. There was a seven furlong race for the three-year-olds that had special interest. NOTABLE VISITORS. In the club house contingent were various arrivals from New York for the weekend of sport and one of the notables was William Woodward, master of the Belair Stud, the Maryland breeding establishment that has sent many good horses to the races. iWone of the most thrilling finishes of the spring racing, Sylvester Labrots good filly Dinah Did Upset was winner of the. Prince. Georges Spring Handicap. It was the closing feature of the Southern Maryland Associations meeting and as the ..daughter of Upset swept past the finish M. Sheas Sandy Ford , was closely lapped on her and a length and a half away O. Chaneys Inception beat Mrs. T. R. Queens Joe Marrone III. rather handily for third. The race had a net value of ?3,390 to the winner and the victory was a Maryland triumph. With little delay at the post the eight that started were sent away in good alignment and Sandy Ford at once went out to show the way. Grey Coat and Dinah Did Upset ; were close after him and both Joe Marrone . III. and Inception, the two most fancied before the running, were farther back but , within striking distance. Right to the end . Dinah Did Upset fought along stride for ; stride with Sandy Ford and it was in the fnal strides that she got her nose in front. . A length and a half back Inception had Joe Marrone III. beaten and the others followed along well back. EASY FOR FRU3HER. It was the end of one of the most successful meetings staged at the Bowie course and one . that was marked by excsllent racing. Just half a dozen three-year-olds started in the Valor Purse and before the race . opinion was evenly divided between Zublena, from the Rancocas Stable, and H. P. Whit-. neys Frumper. This saw Frumper an easy winner and it completed a double for the ; Whitney silks, for in the opening race Squab had taken the measure of a band of maiden t juveniles. t From a good start Robertson got Frumper , away in front, but when Theo. Rochester ; came alongside to force the pace, he eased back slightly to gallop alongside the son of 1 Theo. Cook. They were well out from the 3 others and it was apparent early that . Frumper could take the lead at the first j asking. Zublena was following Frumper in the run through the back stretch and she was also going well. That was before Robertson found the time had come for his move. He shook up the son of Pennant and it was no trick for him to romp away into a good lead. In the stretch Frumper was home winner by four lengths. Red Briar and 2 Trapland both finished in resolute fashion to pass the tirjng Theo. Rochester for second 1 and thjrd places, while Zublena, after running a surprisingly dull race, only succeeded j in beating Baked Apple. Continued on sixteenth page. HAVRE DE GRACE OPENING Continued from first page. Maiden juveniles started in the first race over four furlongs. There was some disappointment when the lameness of Little America brought her withdrawal, but eleven appeared under silks. This brought victory to the H. P. Whitney colors when Squab, a daughter of St. Germans and Pigeon Wing, led home Over Shady, from the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, with Mary Enderly, racing for the Mt. Royal Stable, beating Mrs. J. Dreyers Tea Gown for third. Squab was alert at the start and Workman sent her out to force the pace and Over Shady was right with her, and Tea Gown not far back. Over Shady for a time outran the Whitney filly, but Workman held his position on the inside and, after turning into the stretch, he shook her up and she drew away to be an easy winner by four lengths. Over Shady at all times held the others safe and Mary Enderly was going well to run past Tea Gown for third. Cheap ones raced six furlongs in the second and Yeggman, making his first start since last November, was an easy winner from C. H. Hughes Cecelia Grob, with E. K. Bry-sons Sambo G. finishing third. The form of Yeggman seemed to be pretty thoroughly known and he was one of the popular winners of the day. He raced under the silks of Mrs. P. Corning, but was claimed out of the race for ,000 by F. Sansone. There was little to the race as far as Yeggman was concerned, for lie was so much the best that the winner dominated the race and at no time was seriously threatened. Apostle, the one that appeared the natural contender, was. in early difficulties and never got close enough to be a menace, while Cecelia Grob raced forwardly throughout and Sambo G. finished well to earn third place. W. H. Fizers Herb Ashby, which had a busy winter campaign, came back with a good race in the third when, after forcing the pace, he was home rather an easv winner over Fair Class, the Walter J. Salmon cast-off, which now races for M. Shea. A. Hull-coats Mainsheet was third, with II. G. Bcdwells Fair Gold fourth. II. S. Dubley claimed Signola out of the race from G. B. Foley for ,500. Trainer Charles Cafarelli was fined 0 by the stewards today "for conduct detrimental to the best interests of racing." Jim Bean reports that three of his mares have foaled. Meridian Hill, Azyiado and Sister Margery foaled fillies by Wanderer. Gaiety and Louisiana are yet to foal.
