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I LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES : "Buddy" Hanford, leading winning rider during the recent Havre de Grace meeting and who is setting the pace here with fourteen victories, has been engaged to ride Morton L. Schwartz Gusto in the Maryland Handicap, mile and one-quarter test Saturday. Saturdays running of the Maryland Handicap is the eighteenth. The event was inaugurated in 1914, with Last Coin being the winner. Since then Dodge, Kohinoor, Tip-pity Witchet, Sir Barton, Blazes, Copper Demon, Bunting, My Own, Sarazen, Maid at Arms, Crusader, Brown Bud, Sun Beau, Vanity, Her Grace and Clock Tower have won in the order named. Sir Barton, 1919, and Sarazen, 1924, are joint holders of the time record of 2:02. This mark seems safe from the field that will parade this week-end. Pete Walls, who rode Clock Tower to victory in the Maryland last fall, has been engaged to ride the Quincy Stables good two-year-old Repaid in all of his stake engagements in Maryland the remainder of the season. The Belair Studs Faireno has been thrown out of training and will be shipped to William Woodwards farm six miles from the Bowie race course. Jimmy Clair, agent for Harvey Elston, left the Sinai Hospital in Baltimore Thursday morning. He will take a rest of several weeks. In the meantime "Whitey" Cunningham is looking after Elstons engagements. L. "Buddy" Ehsor, of Baltimore, 1b the latest to join the local riding colony. He got in Thursday morning from New York. L. G. Bedwell, son of H. Guy Bedwell, master of the Yarrow Brae Farm at Savage, sold Field Cloud, at private terms, to C. Duquesne. Bobby Curran saddled his first winner since being granted a training license when Little Stokes defeated Don Tasker.
