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ROUSTABOUT IN FRONT Makes Winning 1935 Debut in Graded Handicap at Havre. Jockey Workman Riding Star of Day Last Time and Night Sprite Each Earn Purse. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 23 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys Roustabout, making his four-year-old debut, swept from behind to win the Class B Graded Handicap, six furlong feature of the program offered at the Harford course this afternoon. Mrs. M. J. Whites All Forlorn was a tenacious second and Mrs. Charles Cranes Ladfield a fast-finishing third in the field of seven. Roustabout, coupled as the Whitney entry with Mister Gander, which finished last, was the favorite in the race. The winner began in front and was dropped back and steadied along while All Forlorn went to the front. The latter raced. Dust Girl into defeat in a quarter mile and then "Sonny" Workman sent Roustabout up on the outside. The Whitney colt steadily cut down All Forlorns lead in the run around the turn, catching her up at the head of the stretch and opening up a length lead which he maintained to the finish. Workman turned out a winning saddle double on Roustabout, having won the preceding race with Night Sprite. The Washington veteran is taking a new lease on life and his riding during the Maryland season has been of a high caliber. Ladfield, which attracted almost as much play as the Whitney pair, moved from the gate very sluggishly. He followed the others for a quarter mile but when he struck his real stride he closed a big gap, though he was two lengths back of second place at the end. Dust Girl flashed early speed and tired when the real issue came. Last Time, racing for J. E. Smallman, Canadian sportsman, easily defeated eight other three-year-olds foaled in Maryland in Contvmed on ninth page. ROUSTABOUT IN FRONT Continued from first page. the first race, at six furlongs. The daughter of Happy Time got away rather sluggishly, but set sail after the leaders leaving the half-mile post, overtaking them entering the stretch and winning under wraps by four lengths. The Smallman filly was a pronounced favorite in the field of nine. Kowtow, which was in the first flight throughout, taking the lead briefly rounding the turn, finished second, and Boocord, after breaking last, closed resolutely for the third call. Dalmatia, second choice in the field, was never a contender. Bright and Early, a bay son of Golden Broom and Early Vote, owned and bred by Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, making his first start, raced, to a handy victory over twelve other juveniles in the second race at four and a half furlongs. Clarksdale was second, half a length back of the winner and five lengths in advance of Jubilee Jim, the third horse. The Jeffords colt sprinted to the front entering the turn and set all the pace thereafter. He bore out through the final furlong, but had enough left to take the measure of Clarksdale at the end. Flower Show, the favorite, got away sluggishly and never entered the contention, finishing a distant fifth. Though J. U. Grattons Night Sprite was installed an odds-on favorite, he was all out to survive a hard-fought finish in the third race at six furlongs. The four-year-old Nocturnal colt got up in the final sixteenth to finish half a length in advance of Acautaw, while a like distance away from second Currants, the early leader, was a tiring third. Night Sprite did not display his usual alertness at the post, and Acautaw was also away sluggishly. Currants whirled out into a three-length lead and doggedly set the pace to the furlong post, where Night Sprite edged up along the inner rail. Acautaw closed with a powerful rush on the outside, but the ultimate winner met the new challenge with a final spurt. Fredrick showed speed for half a mile. Miss L. C. Whites Teddy Carl, under a well judged ride from Jimmy Lynch, drove to a clean cut victory over seven opponents in the fifth race at one mile and seventy yards. Happy Flag charged up from last position to take second place, a length back of the winner and two lengths in front of Leana G., the top heavy favorite. Lynch reserved Teddy Carl in fifth place back of a brisk pace struggle, which saw Colorist, Leana G. and Ogle take turns in the lead. Shot up on the outside leaving the half mile post, Teddy Carl assumed command at the final furlong pole and was going away sturdily at the end. Happy Flag trailed her field to the quarter pole and then closed fastest of all. Leana G. faded in the final furlong.
