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GARDEN MESSAGE THE BEST ♦ Outruns Large Field in Nursery Stakes at Pimlico Track. %V. Ziegler, Jr.s Cattail Finishes Second and Stablemate of Winner Is Third— Chosen Pal a Winner. 1 BALTIMORE, Md., May 10.— Meeting contention from among the best juveniles of the season, Garden Message, from the T. H. Somerville barn, added the twenty-fourth running of the Pimlico Nursery to his credit when he was winner of the ,000 added sprint of four and one-half furlongs at the Maryland Jockey Club course today. Opposed by thirteen others of the best grade, which included his running mate, Golden Fate, the Somerville colt staged a winning rush through the final stages of the intermediate dash, to complete the distance before Cattail, from the W. Ziegler, Jr., barn, and winner of the Aberdeen Stakes, while third went to Golden Fate of the Foxcatcher Farms, and coupled with the winner. Acau-taw, one of three that went postward for the Bruce-Parr stables, landed in fourth position, while Arrowswift, bearing the Mereworth silks, was an exceptionally close fifth. The renewal of the Pimlico Nursery was the particular attraction for the eighth day of the current session at the Hilltop course and, owing to the oversized field, the start took place without the service of the stall structure. After a delay of five minutes, a good beginning for all resulted, and it was Golden Fate that went out to establish the pace, with Cutie Face and Lough Port racing closely lapped, and then followed Acau-taw, Cattail and Garden Message in close order as they found racing room on the outside of the leaders. Approaching the home stretch, Golden Fate was still holding to his command, but there was a general closing up as the field straightened into the straightaway. Garden Message, on reaching the final furlong pole, was going resolutely in third position and, kept under strong pressure, was on by the pacemakers to score by a head. Cattail was ! two lengths before Golden Fate, and Acau-taw a head farther away as he led the I others. The Nursery grossed ,310, of which i the winner earned exactly ,340. .
