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CYCLE ADDS TO VICTORIES ♦ Takes Ealtimore Spring Handicap on Pimlico s Chief Offering. » Jockey R. Merritt, Howe Stable Rider, Pilots j Tour Winners — Exhort Takes Opening Race. PIMLICO. Md., May 2.— Cycle, fleet son of Sickle and Flambette, which races for Rich ard Howes Howe Stable, added another important victory to his list of achievements ; this season when he turned in a sparkling performance to take honors in the tenth running of ihe Baltimore Spring Handicap, a test of six furlongs that attracted six swift ■printers and which served as the premier event on the twin featured program served for the first Saturday of the Maryland Jockey Club meeting at Pimlico today. Endowed with a purse of ,500 added, the brown son of Sickle added ,370 to his earnings and boosted his total winnings to ,770 by virtue of winning the Paumonok Handicap, at Jamaica, when he swept over the three-quarters sprint to conquer C. V. Whitneys Trumpery by three-quarters of a length after he sped over the distance in 1:11%. Third went to Postage Due, one of two three-year-olds that met, while Singing Wood, topweight under 127 pounds, led home Black Buddy, the only other starter to finish after Bright Light was left at the start ing point when he refused to break. Cycles accomplishment was one of the most popular victories witnessed by a large crowd that turned out at the Hilltop course and he led for practically every step of the journey. It marked the fourth winner to be ridden by jockey R. Merritt, contract rider for the Howe Stable during the course of the day his earlier successes coming astride Exhort, winner of the first race. Adams Eve in the third race, and Waterset in the fourth. In the Baltimore Spring Handicap a short delay occurred before the bell was rung and it found all away in good order with the exception of Bright Light, who refused to leave his stall. Trumpery was quickest in motion and he led the way out of the stalls, but he was busily engaged when Merritt had the Howe sprinter right at his flanks. Going down the far side of the track, these two were out just a short distance before Singing Wood, but Black Buddy and Postage Due were unable to stay with the flying leaders and raced some distance back. Cycle and Trumpery were setting a fast pace for Singing Wood as they swung to the turn and they came into the stretch closely lapped and with little to choose between them. Straightened out for the drive to the finish, Cycle gained a half length under the masterful handling of Merritt drew away slowly as he neared the close of the contest. Singing Wood wilted in the last furlong and Postage Due came along the inside to drive into third place in the last twenty yards. An upset marked the running of the twenty-eighth renewal of the Pimlico Nursery that was the first of the twin features when Golden Era, from the Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords stable, showed his best speed to defeat Mrs. R. A. Van Cliefs Broad Rippl-e, J. H. Whitneys Tall Oak and four other shifty youngsters that were led home by A. G. Vanderbilts Irrepressible at the end of the fifth race contested over four and one-half furlongs. The winner, making the second start of his career, earned ,830 when he reached the last line a half length in advance of the Van Clief filly with Tall Oak beaten a similar margin to defeat Irrepressible by a head for the minor portion of the spoils. Happy Road led Glad Wings and Quincy. Racing in fourth position while Broad Ripple, Glad Wings and Irrepressible sped out closely lapped to lead the way, H. Richards sent Golden Era up to the trio midway on the home stretch, then driving his mount vigorously -had him in the van in the last fifty yards to come away gradually at the end. Seven maiden two-year-olds met for supremacy in the initial offering on the card, and it began the day auspiciously for students of form when Exhort, from the Howe Stable, confidently ridden by R. Merritt, I | escaped from the non-winning ranks to win | in easy fashion. Moving into the lead just ! M the small field left the back stretch, Exhort dominated the race for the remainder of the journey to reach the end of the four and a half furlongs sprint two and a half lengths before Dunnamany, the one to gain the place honors. Third was easily earned by Overplay, after he came from last position to hold sway over Wulfstan and the others. The winner sped over the distance in :55,.:, seconds and paid slightly better than even money. Falls marred the running of the Harford Steeplechase Handicap, a gallop of two miles over thirteen fences, the second race on i the program, when four of the seven starters met with mishaps leaving only three to complete the journey, with the favored Ama-gansett, from the T. Hitchcock Stable, victorious in easy fashion. Ridden by Rigan McKinney, sterling amateur rider, the six-year-old son of Embargo and Zetta achieved his success over Mrs. James Parks Bold Fellow, with Snake Charmer third for Mrs. S. B. Wing when he had no opposition for that part of the prize. While his score was easily accomplished Amagansett proved that he was superior to his company when he toted 156 pounds and had little difficulty in taking command at the leisure of his pilot. K. N. Gilpins greatly improved four-year-old gelding Buck Langhorne ran his winning streak to three consecutive triumphs when he defeated a smart band of middle-distance performers in the Pikesville Claiming Handicap, which was seventh on the program. Opposed by six others over the nine furlongs journey, the Gilpin performer, under the guidance of E. DeCamillas, forced all the pace that was set by Ceaseless, and he won by a decisive margin after supplanting the K. E. Hitt three-year-old at the end of the six furlongs to reach the close leading Tempestuous by a half dozen lengths.
