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EQUIPOISE WORKING SOUNDLY Brilliant Whitney Racer Given Three -Mile Jogs Daily Fall Apple Main Hope of Trainer Freddie Hopldns Division for Rich Fixtures in Maryland. BOWIE, Md., March 4. Fall Apple, chestnut son of Pennant and Eden, winner of 3,775 last year and a candidate for this years Preakness, is the main hope of the division of the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney stable, which trainer Freddie Hopkins is bringing here from Bennings for the opening of the eastern racing season on April 1. Fall Apple, half-brother of Equipoise, champion two-year-old of 1930, is a great favorite with Marylanders. He earned his spurs last year by taking down 3,850 in the nineteenth renewal of the Aberdeen Stakes at Havre de Grace, in which he carried Alfred Robertson and 117 pounds to whip H. Teller Archibalds Westys Junior, Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Stepenfetchit and a host of other good baby racers. Hopkins has had jockey Nick Huff galloping Fall Apple all winter and, although he is not making any predictions as to what the son of Pennant will do in the Preakness, work watchers at Bennings say Fall Apple is not going to be a set-up for any mans three-year-old this year. Banderlog, maiden bay son of Chicle and Fly Leaf, is the only other three-year-old Hopkins will handle for owner Whitney. This colt has been working smoothly at. Bennings and should not remain a maiden very long. Equipoise, now a four-year-old, has been going soundly at Bennings. The son of Pennant and Swinging was given long jogs every day last month, averaging about three miles per workout. He looks fine and has not shown the slightest evidence of the leg injury that caused him to be scratched on the eve of last years Kentucky Derby. However, trainer Hopkins has always had a warm spot in his heart for Equipoise and race fans can rest assured that the colt wont go postward until he is ready for a winning effort. While centering his work on Fall Apple, Hopkins is not overlooking a single move of his dozen two-year-olds. He is giving them many long hours of careful schooling from stall gates at Bennings, and when they go postward during the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations approaching meeting, they will know every angle of the greatest of all outdoor sports. Hopkins wont lack capable riders during the racing at this point, as head trainer T. J. Healey has sent word from Red Bank, N. J., that he has ordered Raymond Sonny Workman and Alfred Robertson to report here the latter part of the month and help Hopkins with his daily chores. Workman is one of this countrys best two-year-old riders and as he has always appeared at his best on state tracks, it wont be surprising if he enters the winners circle on numerous times next month. According to present plans, trainer Hopkins will keep the Whitney band at Bennings until March 15 when he will have them vanned here. Track Superintendent Dick Pending has. had the Whitney barn all painted and cleaned in anticipation of the arrival of Hopkins charges. General manager Joseph B. Boyle, who arrived from Florida last week, was a visitor yesterday and was agreeably surprised at the many improvements made throughout the grounds by superintendent Pending with-in the past month.
