Dreel Easy Winner of Harford Handicap: Registers Vanderbilt Double in Capturing Havres Opening Feature, Daily Racing Form, 1935-04-16

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DREEL EASY WINNER OF HARFORD HANDICAP V I Registers Vanderbilt Double in Capturing Havres Opening Feature Postage Due, Juvenile Stablemate, Takes Initial Race Elkridge Purse to Brown Twig Veteran Judge Schilling Scores HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 15. When Dreel was an easy winner of the Harford Handicap here this afternoon it began the second meeting of the Maryland season auspiciously for the silk3 of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. It was the second victory of the day, .for the opening dash was won by Postage Due, a juvenile stablemate. To add his name to the Harford winning roster, Dreel ran down Ral Parrs Star Porter rather easily in the final furlong, while third was the portion of Nautch, which raced for the Howe Star ible and Only One, a stablemate, was fourth. After a promise of bright weather for the opening of the Harford Association meeting there came a sudden drop in temperature, a high wind and a driving rain. Later, the weather wa3 clear but it continued cold during the day. However, a big crowd was out to welcome the thoroughbreds in the new setting and the sport furnished was first class. In the Harford Nautch was the one to show the way. He quickly opened up a lead of two lengths on the field and Workman had Star Porter under a steadying restraint back of him with Dreel not far back of these and Only One also racing prominently. Knowing the run-out habits of Jtfautch, Workman made no serious effort to go to him with Star Porter until after rounding the stretch turn. There he moved through on the inside and for a few strides it seemed that he was going to the front. OnlyOhe was following him on the rail while Dreel was moving up strongly on the inside. NAUTCH BEARS OUT. In the last furlong Nautch bore out a bit, but it did Star Porter little good for at the same time Fallon made his winning challenge with Dreel. The son of Trojan in a dozen strides had taken the command and it was all over. He was in hand at the finish to be winner by three parts of a length. Star Porter saved second place from Nautch by half a length and Only One was another three lengths back. Brown Twig furnished one of the surprises of the day when he was winner of the Elkridge Purse, a six furlongs dash for three-year-olds. He took the measure of A. W. Abbots Dancing Doll with Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts City Slicker beating E. R. Bradleys Bloodroot for third. The only other starter was J. Belks Indian News, and she was a distant trailer all the way. Indian News caused some delay at the post, and then as she left she had no speed to drop back badly in the first furlong. Brown Twig was first from the stalls, but City Slicker raced with him, and Dancing Doll was right there. BJoodrodt, a long-striding filly, had no speed in the early racing and she was far back of the leading trio. Dancing Doll was under a slight restraint as she followed the pace of City Slicker, and it was not until the stretch turn was reached that Pollard permitted her to go to the front. UNDER SNUG RESTRAINT. Brown Twig was under a snug restraint when Pollard made hia move and he had been racing along on the inside. Then as Pollard moved Peters shook up the Brown Bud colt and he, too, raced by the Vanderbilt colt. He was forced to come from the rail for the run, but in the final furlong he steadily wore down Dancing Doll to win going away by half a length. City Slicker had tired badly, but he finished at the heels of the.Abbot filly, while in the last quarter Bloodroot was going in better style than the three that had led her over the line. The Bradley filly had closed a big gap and the manner in which she raced her last quarter suggested that she would have been the winner at a mile, or possibly seven furlongs. The Alfred G. Vanderbilt silks began the Continued on twenty-second page. DREEL EASY WINNER OF HARFORD HANDICAP Continued from first page. meeting well when Postage Due, the juvenile son of High Time and Postage, defeated a nice band of maidens over the four and a half furlongs distance. L. E. Keiffers Flying Falcon raced to second place and Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Peter Pepper saved third from Grand Knight. Workman left from the inside stall with Peter Pepper in full stride and before the others were fairly under way he had the son of Petee-Wrack clear, and Aneroid was showing the way to Postage Due, with Flying Falcon also in the first division. . Peter Pepper held his lead turning-,from the back stretchy but there Postage Due moved up on the outside to challenge and Flying Falcon went into third place as Aneroid dropped back badly. Inf idox was moving up steadily on the inside when he was badly blocked and OMalley was forced to take him up sharply, while Beau Thor, the Willis Sharpe Kilmer hope, ran into a like interference. Postage Due swung into the straight , of the stretch well clear of the others and, under a hustling ride, he still had three parts of a length to spare. Flying Falcon, in an effort to run the winner down, was six lengths before the tired Peter Pepper, and he had beaten Grand Knight a like distance. F. E. Krafts Judge Schilling, the ancient son of Hand Grenade, found a field he could beat in the six furlongs of the second when he led home L. Haymakers Cancel, and Miss L. C. Whites Merovech took third from Kalbla. The old Judge left the post in full stride and, while he was outrun by Immune in the early stages, he was galloping along strongly back of the daughter of Strolling Player to the stretch, where he went to the front. In the final furlong the old fellow stumbled slightly, but it did not cost him his lead, though he had to be driven out to withstand the rush of Cancel. Merovech had come into the running through the stretch, and he was only a head back of the Haymaker filly, which had always been in the front division. Ka-lola suffered some interference in the running, and was going well at the end. The third was a six-furlong dash for platers, and it went to Postscript, from the Jersey Stable, when she ran down Paul San-fords Candescent to score going away, and third was the portion of Waterset, with Dalmatia fourth. From a good start Dalmatia was the one to cut out the running, while Workman rated Candescent along back of her, and Sky Haven was heading the others. Postscript was slower to join the contenders, but she was going well and was soon working her way up resolutely on the outside. Workman moved with Candescent going to the stretch turn, and she readily disposed of Dalmatia, but in the final furlong there was a closing up and Critichfield brought Postscript along with her winning rush. She scored with something to spare by a length and a half, while Candescent was doing her best to save second place by half a length from Waterset, which the tired Dalmatia failed to beat for her part of the purse. The best finish of the day came in the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth when Miss A. Doris Midshipman, Xandra and Popo came to the line noses apart in the order named. It appeared that Xandra was best and she would have been winner in another stride but Lindberg was of no help, and she was a nod short of the score.


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