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PIMLICO OPENS MONDAY Maryland Racing Scene Changes to Baltimores Old Hilltop Course. Preakness of 5,000 Added Heads Stakes "Daily Double" to Be Used Steeplechase Daily. BALTIMORE, Md., April 27. With the mellow tone of deep tradition mingling with the livelier notes of a: new prosperity of the sport in this section the twelve days meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at historic Pimlico, within Baltimores city limits will sound its opening fanfare Monday afternoon. Pimlicos history runs back to the very roots of racing in Maryland. This spring its sponsors will launch their meeting heartened by the revival of interest shown in the sport by the success of preceding meetings at Bowie and Havre de Grace. "Maryland racing is definitely on the up trend," stated M. L. Dainger, secretary and executive head of the Maryland Jockey Club. "We looked forward to revived interest swinging up from the opening to the climax of the forty-fifth Preakness on closing day, May 11." The inauguration of the Pimlico meeting will mark the resumption of the "Daily Double," which ascended to record heights of popularity at Bowie, but was not adopted at Havre de Grace. Undoubtedly many newly made "Double" fans were disappoint- ed by the failure of the Harford Associa tion to use it, but they will be given full opportunity to shoot at the system at the old Hilltop course. Then, too, the opening of Pimlico marks the launching of the Eastern steeplechase season on regulation tracks. There will, be a race through the field each day with the three miles Billy Barton Steeplechase for registered hunters on May 10, occupying the salient position on the jump program. Studding the meeting will be four major stake tests. Twelve crack sprinters have been named for that ,500 Baltimore Spring Handicap at six furlongs which will be the opening feature. Included in the list of winners in the nine years history of the event have been the rugged Display and the Australian, Winooka. G. D. Wideners Sation won it last year. The Shandon Farms Evergold, a veteran of the Western sprint wars has been assigned top weight of 120 pounds by handicap-per Frank Bryan, while Ral Parrs Star Porter, under 119, will be the Marylanders hope. The field feature will be the two miles Linstead Steeplechase, which has at tracted a limit field of twelve, with one also eligible. The other salient tests at the meeting are the thirty-first Dixie Handicap, a gruelling test of a mile -and three-sixteenths carrying an added value of ,000, the ,500 Pimlico Nursery, for two-year-olds at four and a half furlongs for which there were eighty-four nominations; the historic Preakness, at a mile and three-sixteenths with 5,000 added and the old Woodlawn Vase Steeplechase. The last named stakes roster of fifty-four nominations included virtually every three-year-old of quality of the country, Chance Sun being the only notable absentee.
