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FOURTEEN IN HANDICAP Crack Band Scheduled to Start in ,500 .Feature at Havre. Psychic Bid Top Weight With 120. Pounds Vanderbilt Entry of Four Rules Favorite. . HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 24 Four-teen good distance performers in nine interests have been named for the ,500 added Philadelphia Handicap, mile and pne-six-teenth feature at Havre de Grace on Saturday. Topping the list in the matter of weights is the Brookmeade Stables Psychic Bid, which is asked to carry 120 pounds, three more than his nearest rival, Edward F. Seagrams Stand Pat, which in turn has been allotcd one pound more than Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Good Gamble. The entries are Edward F. Seagrams Stand Pat and Sablin, Shandon Farms Bright Light and Official and Vanderbilts quartet, Good Gamble, Good Harvest, Gallant Mac and Purple Knight. It is unlikely that more than ten will face the starter. Pre-race favoritism rests with the Vanderbilt interests. Purple Knight and Good Harvest attested their fitness when they finished heads apart to run one, two in the Southern Maryland Handicap at Bowie. This success was accomplished over a muddy track and should the weather man frown upon the course on the Susquehanna this pair will likely sport the Vanderbilt silks. Should the track remain fast, and there is every indication that it will, the other Vanderbilt representatives, Good Gamble and Gallant Mac, will carry the hopes of the Worthington Valley sportsman. Much interest will be centered upon Edward F. Seagrams Stand Pat, which accounted for the Philadelphia in 1935. Stand Pat not only holds the time record for the special, having negotiated the distance in 1AV-A last year, but is also the only entry that has a chance to duplicate the performance of Boniface and Equipoise, the only two horses which have twice accounted for the Philadelphia. Another interesting angle on the running will be the performance of the Howe Stables Cycle. This son of Sickle won the Pau-monok Handicap at Jamaica with such ease that he left the impression that he would be able to carry his high early speed oyer a route, although previously he had always been regarded as a sprinter. R. A. Moores Thursday has been kept in training through the winter, campaigning on the coast. At Santa Anita he was beaten a nose in a grade A handicap and raced unplaced in the Santa Anita Handicap.. Brookmeade Stables Psychic Bid has been brought to peak condition, as evidenced by his second to Cycle in the Paumonok. The race is a very open one, made more so by the absence of Firethorn. At present it appears that the track will be fast, and general manager Edward Burke has made arrangements to handle a crowd expected to exceed the throng which filled the plant for last Saturdays Chesapeake.
