Pimlico Track Sloppy: Rain Mars Footing for the Spring Home-Bred Stakes.; Race Revolves Into Whitney Family Affair With C. V. Whitneys Mister Gander Winner., Daily Racing Form, 1934-05-04

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PIMLICO TRACK SLOPPY Rain Mars Footing for the Spring HomeBred Stakes Race Revolves Into Whitney Family FamilyAffair Affair With C V Whitneys WhitneysMister Mister Gander Winner BALTIMORE Md May 3 Rain fell in and about Baltimore throughout the after ¬ noon and the going at Pimlico was sloppy Nevertheless 7000 men and women gathered to witness a revival of the Pimlico Spring Homebred Stakes one of the Maryland Jockey Clubs most attractive spring spe ¬ cials in spite of its reduced value which Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys Mister Gan ¬ der won at a very short price priceMister Mister Gander did not look a bit like either his full sister Mother Goose which defeated a band of twentyeight in the Bel mont Park Futurity of 1924 or his own brother Whichone when he scored in the revival of the same race in 1929 He was under the whip to win by half a length from Maddening which got down for second place the shortest of heads in front of Douceur DouceurThis This 5800 Homebred the most insignificant ever as to value was strictly a Whitney family affair Maddening a brown daugh ¬ ter of Mad Hatter and Tiptop bore the pink and black ensemble of Mrs Helen Hay Whitneys C Vs popular aunt and Douceur a chestnut daughter of The Porter and Garden of Allah sported the fuchsia and purple of Mrs John Hay Whitney Mrs Helen daughterinlawMister Hay Whitneys daughterinlaw Mister Gander was making his second Continued on twentysixth page PIMLICO TRACK SLOPPY I Continued from first page start Maddening which had done some rac ¬ ing in Florida had tried her luck and shown well in the Pimlico Nursery which grossed upward of 4000 Douceur was making her debut On this performance Douceur looks as good as either Mister Gander or Mad ¬ dening Green and fractious at the barrier she began slowly and was outrun in the back stretch and far turn She appeared hopelessly distanced when Mister Gander passed the last sixteenth post leading Mad ¬ dening by half a length but she finished pluckily and in another step would have had second place At five furlongs she might have won Dark Vive and Little Dinah were fast for three furlongs butnei their held on onThe The crowd did not pick the best sloppy track performer in the dash of six furlongs for Marylandbred threeyearolds which ushered in the day Aske a winner earlier in the week failed to measure up although the energetic Workman rode hard Charles J Meisters Cantersine a son of Canter starting for the first time since last fall was in front at the start and under Merritt another enterprising jockey held on to beat Tight Wad which had won in muddy going at Havre de Grace GraceMerritt Merritt showed good judgment in the final strides of the race If he had gone to the whip the fast tiring Cantersine which might have been a bit short would inevitably have swerved and lost A brisk hand ride did the trick Cantersine and Tight Wad finished a couple of lengths in front of Manager Bill which in turn defeated the favorite by about a length and a half That Cantersine was not neglected by the Baltimore friends of Meister who vans horses from track to track and furniture from place to place was indicated by the odds of only a little better than 5 12 to 1 Cakewalker a first outer by Mad Hatter from Flourish of the Sage Stable took the second an allowance race of four furlongs and a half for twoyearolds rather handily paying a shade better than 5 to 1 But he might not have won if the favorite Legume a son of Epinard belonging to Breckiriridge Long United States Ambassador to Italy and Marylandbred had been as well han ¬ dled by young Lowry as he was by OMalley The other contestants were Buffoonery Doubleton Lealette Simple Flower Buy Straight and Lucky Bill Legume was favor ¬ ite very probably because he had beaten Evangelist at Bowie in a race in which he himself had been licked by Aperitif AperitifThe The veteran St Francis star performer of the stable of Mrs T W Durant who has a fine place in Maryland looked like a winner of the Harford a two mile steeplechase for fouryearolds and over for a turn and a half of the field He was out in front of John Bosley Jrs Muskogee by two or three lengths taking the jumps smoothly and swiftlyunder the riding of W Ball But he got in too close to the back stretch liverpool and made a bad landing N Brown sent Muskogee past him in a jiffy and Muskogee taking the last two fences perfectly came on to win with plenty to spare St Francis which was starting for the first time since last spring and might have heeded a race tired so badly in the run from the last hedge home Kummel a green maiden owned by H E Talbott Jr caught him fifty yards out and won second place placeMuskogee Muskogee had plenty of backing He paid only a little better than 3 to 1 Hole High another green one belonging to Mrs F A Clark went down at the first hedge of the back field the second time around and Jilted followed suit


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