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MUCKER AND GUILFORD Lead Home Two Preakness and Derby Candidates at Havre. Swinfield and Fortunate Youth Failures Wet and Disagreeable Weather Conditions. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. April 17. Two candidates for both the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby were shown in the feature , here this afternoon. They were both whipped by a pair not engaged ixi either 0,000 race, when Mucker, bearing the Dixiana silks, was first and J. E. Griffiths Guilford second. The candidates for the big May specials were Walter J. Salmons Swinfield and Sys-vester W. Labrots Fortunate Youth and they finished third and fourth. Weather conditions were more disagreeable than at any time since the opening of the meeting. The day was cold and raw. while most of the afternoon a drizzling rainfall added to the discomfort. The track was heavy and particularly deep alongside the inner rail, the winners coming from horses that were kept well out on the course. The three-year-old race that occupied the feature position was titled the Everglades and just half a dozen went to the post, with opinion favoring Walter J. Salmons Swinfield before post time. On the way to the post Whileaway tried to run off with Robertson and after he reached the stalls he caused some delay by his unruly antics. As the barrier rose he left so badly, as to be almost left at the post. Guilford, from the inside, and Mucker, from the outside stall, were more alert than either Swinfield or Fortunate Youth and they dashed away into the lead, with Guilford showing the way to the Dixiana colt. These two were soon three lengths before Swinfield and he was leading Fortunate Youth and Judge Dixon, but Robertson roused Whileaway and the winter campaigner rushed up until for a few strides he had Swinfield headed, but the other two were still nicely clear and racing like a team. Three furlongs from home Mucker ami Guilford were locked and almost throe lengths before Swinfield, which held AVhile-away safe, the gelding having been used tip by his dash to take a position. This was the order as the stretch was reached and, as Mucker and Guilford went along stride for stride in front, Schaefer swung Swinfield into the stretch back of them to have the colt bear to the inside in a fashion that gave him no chance to come through. The battle continued to the last stride. Schaefer had pulled Swinfield out from his position, to find racing room and he was Continued on sixteenth page. MUCKER AND GUILFORD Continued from first page. closing gamely in the final sixteenth, but it was too late, and in a ding-dong finish Mucker just dropped his nose down in front of Guilford with the Salmon colt on the heels of the pair of them. Fortunate Youth was five lengths away and he raced as though he did not like the going and he was a half dozen lengths before the other two. Battling On. Samuel D. Kiddles home-bred son of Oceanic and Maid-at-Arms, proved himself at least a smart mud-runner when he led home a band of three-year-old maiden colts and geldings in the opening dash, at three-quarters. He was an easy winner over Gun Man. another bred by Riddle, but racing under the colors of the Palmwood Stable, while H. P. Whitneys Angry, appearing under silks for the first time, was third. Battling On began from the outside stall in the field of thirteen, but McCoy had him off running and he displayed so much speed that he was soon clear when he moved over to the inside and he simply romped through the slushy footing. Gun Man was after him from the first and it was Meltelian which was racing third. Kings Crier was close at hand and Dun Ro for a time had a forward position. Angry was just a bit slow leaving his stall and, in the early racing, he was far back from the pace, but when he found his stride he moved up nicely and his sluggishness at the start seemed to be merely a question of racing education. Miss Dinwiddie, a daughter of Campfire and Fluffy, that races for J. Woods Garth, the elder, was winner over the two-year-old platers, that raced in the second race, at four and a half furlongs. This same miss had won for Garth at the Bowie meeting and she came right back through the sloppy mud to verify that performance. Joseph Leiters Prince Apollo, which was campaigned through the winter at New Orleans, raced to second place, and George D. Wideners Leader, which had his early racing lessons at Miami, saved third from Dr. J. P. Jones Vice. The third offering was a six furlongs dash for cheap ones, and it saw L. M. Seversons Dreana Lee an easy winner over J. Goffs Shasta Pebble. Richard Pendings Ima Queen took third before Mrs. L. O. Sawyers Qne Cent. From a good start, it was Ima Queen that was rushed but to set the pace and she was soon clear of the others. One Cent raced for-wardly, while "Dreana Lee was riot far away. Shasta Pebble was caught in rather close quarters through the first furlong and he did nothave entire racing room. Ima Queen held to her command until into the stretch, but it had cost her an effort, and a furlong out Dreana Lee had her beaten, the latter winning by four lengths. In the meantime, Shasta Pebble was working his way up, but it was not until inside the final sixteenth that he caught the Pending filly, to lead her over the line by a length. One Cent had hung badly when he appeared to be in a contending position at the head of the stretch, and fourth was his portion, i
