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SHARE HONORS IN MARYLAND Jockey E. Smith and Trainer J. P. Jones Score Double Victory. Broad Ripple and Deflate Take First and Third Races on Off-Day Program at Havre. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 20. Jockey E. Smith and trainer J.. P. Jones were much in the limelight on the seventh program of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association that was decided at Havre de Grace today. This pair combined to take the glory of an interesting afternoon of sport that was mostly given over to the cheaper class of racers at the Harford County plant. The veteran pilot rode the winners of the first and third races, both of which were saddled by the Virginia horseman, one of which performed in his own silks and the other for his client, Mrs. R. A. Van Clief. Those winning for the Jones-Smith-Van Clief combination were Broad Ripple and Deflate, and both earned their victories in easy fashion and at liberal odds. Nothing in the way of a first class headliner was offered, the best contests on the program being the third and fourth races, for three-year-old fillies, run in two divisions and over the three-quarters distance. These were styled the Wilmington and Three Men on a Horse Purses, the former attracting seven and the latter eight, and both were under allowance conditions. It was in the first race that the double for Jones-Smith-Van Clief was recorded when Broad Ripple scored convincingly over nine other maiden two-year-olds, while De-flates triumph in one of the twin features came in much the same fashion, when she defeated C. V. Whitneys Two Bob, J. J. Meehans Patsey Begone and four others at the end of the third event. The score of Deflate in the Wilmington was her second in as many starts since adding one year to her age, and her victory was registered in clean-cut fashion, when she took the lead at the rise of the barrier to hold a long advantage on her opponents throughout the test. At the end, Deflate, after holding a lead of six lengths at one stage of the journey, coasted past the line to beat Two Bob by three lengths, while Patsey Begone was a driving third to capture a head verdict over A. G. Vanderbilts Spank. Beth Bon, from the Bomar Stable, proved a disappointment to the large crowd that were visitors, and her downfall was disheartening to her army of supportersr She lacked her usual speed in the race, which denied her opportunity to figure in the monetary award, and her performance was far below expectations. Deflates performance was a good one, when she showed her best speed soon after taking command, then sped along at a rapid pace to run the distance in 1:13, being eased up throughout the closing furlong by E. Smith when she had her company soundly beaten. Lovely Girl, swift-running daughter of Vito and Loveliness, which races for the Bomar Stable, added another success to her local achievements and qualified for the Kentucky Oaks, which is her next objective when she took winning honors in the Three Men on a Horse Purse, second of the dual attractions that served as the fourth event. Opposed by seven other fillies of her age, Lovely Girl came from behind to score and her victory was won by her own length as she drove past the final line before Mrs. A. S. Bowmans Genie Palatine, one of the lightly considered starters, with Ampersand, : a recent graduation from the maiden ranks, earning a nose decision for third over Paraguay Tea. J. Bryson, astride the Bomar filly, waited with Lovely Girl until she was fully settled in her stride before endeavoring to catch her opponents. Moving up readily in the final five-sixteenths, the Bomar miss overhauled hec opposition steadily and in a fast finish was able to gain command in the closing sixteenth. Two-year-old maidens met for supremacy in the four and a half furlongs of the introductory event, a test that attracted ten starters, and it found Broad Ripple, a first-time starter from the Mrs. R. A. Van Clief stable, making a show of the opponents that she encountered when she led for every stride of the journey to defeat Bomar Stables Peace River, Mrs. L. Campbells Robins Cove and the seven others that were led -to the finish by A. G. Vanderbilts Sharpshooter. Nine nondescript platers were engaged for the second race on the program and it brought a surprise with the decision of the contest when Mrs. J. M. Blacks Fervid, which campaigned during the winter in Florida, emerged victorious at the end of six furlongs. In this most support was centered on Canterboy, a member of the R. H. New stable, but he proved a dud in the running when he finished in fifth place, being led to the end of the journey in addition to the winner by T. F. Swords Midnight Flyer and B. A. Langmuirs Hasty Belle. R. H. Heighe furnished the winner of the first of the long distance races when his veteran mare Sparky, ridden by J. R-enick, accounted for the fifth race, over the mile and a sixteenth route, for which Pomposity ruled a strong choice only to finish last in the field of six. Idle Along, from the Liberty Lane Stable, a winner here last week, was the one to follow the Heighe entrant closest with Hoops landing third for H. Kerr, completely obscuring the better fancied starters.
