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DARK HOPE WINS DIXIE , | Scores First Victory in Stake for Maryland Owner. -— * Equals Pimlicos One Mile and Three-Sixteenths Track Record in Defeating Good Goods. » PIMLICO, Md., May 9.— For the first time in its history, the Dixie Handicap was won by a Maryland-owned horse when Dark Hope, racing in the interests of J. W. Y. Martin, of the Worthington Valley, conquered seven other good campaigners in track record time at old Pimlico this after-! noon. The seven-year-old gelding, by Traumer— Dinahmeur, giving the greatest performance of his career, ran the mile and three-sixteenths in 1:58 to earn ,500 of the 0,000 added purse. Under the faultless riding of Robert Jones, .Dark Hope defeated the Brookmeade Sta-Ibles Good Goods by a length and a half with Alfred G. Vanderbilts Gallant Mac tak-i ing third honors a similar distance back. The Howe Stables Cycle was fourth. Good Goods | received the bulk of the support from the I crowd of 17,000 persons, who gathered at the I Hill Top course, despite ninety-degree ! weather. Carrying 113 pounds and going into the race perfectly trained by Louis Feustel, of Man o War fame, Dark Hope saved ground all the way and assumed a good lead in Continued on thirty-fourth page. DARK HOPE WINS DIXIE Continued from first page. the stretch when called on by Jones, but he had to be ridden out smartly to protect his lead against the plodding Good Goods. Dark Hope was in close quarters in the early stages but continued next to the rail as Cycle assumed a good lead with Gallant Mac in second place and Stand Pat third. In the run down the back stretch, Dark Hope advanced to third place ahead of Gallant Mac as Cycles lead was reduced to a length. The Martin veteran put Gallant Mac away in the run around the second turn and caught Cycle at the head of the stretch. It was no trick for him to race the Howe Stable sprinter into submission and within a sixteenth of a mile Dark Hope took a lead of three lengths. In the meantime, Good Goods had gained gradually on the inside as he obtained plenty of room but Jones sensed the danger and kept after Dark Hope with the result that he held an advantage of daylight to the end. Gallant Mac held on determinedly to be third over the tiring Cycle. Mantagna a-d Thursday, which could never threaten were fifth and sixth ahead of the faltering Stand Pat, while First Minstrel brought up the rear. Cycle set a good pace running the first quarter in :23"3, half in :47%; three-quarters in 1:12% and the mile in 1:37%. The victory was Dark Hopes second in as many starts as he had accounted for a 1 six furlongs dash at Havre de Grace. As ; he was being pulled up in the back stretch after the race, Dark Hope stumbled and J unseated Jones, who suffered a bruised hip and sprained ankle. He was able to remount i and ride back to the scale. Baby Talk, improved son of Blue Larkspur and Beach Talk, in the E. R. Bradley stable, | furnished a mild surprise by defeating Jean ! Bart, Preakness hope of Walter M. Jeffords, j and other local eligibles to that stake in the I Palmetto Purse, the secondary attraction. | Mrs. W. W. Vaughans Knight Warrior was j third at the end of the mile and one-sixteenth event. Jean Bart, top weight among the eight starters with 118 pounds and the odds-on j favorite, had an excuse as Knight Warrior I swerved against him at the start and Rich-! aids was compelled to pull him up sharply I at the first turn when he attempted to send 1 Jean Bart up on the inside of Aneroid to 1 get to the front. The Bradley colt ran the distance in 1:47% to defeat Jean Bart by a head, while Knight Warrior was a length and a half away in third place and a similar distance ahead of Aneroid. He was well back during the opening quarter but gained steadily on the inside in the run down the back stretch. Continuing ■ to advance gradually, Baby Talk caught Jean Bart in the last seventy yards and , drew away to nearly a length lead but Joe Renick permitted him to take matters easy i and right at the end the favorite reduced ; the margin. After getting clear on the lower turn, Jean Bart went up on the outside of Aneroid to ; take command in the back stretch. He went into a good lead under restraint, but when he was shaken up sharply in the stretch the j Man o War colt was unable to stave off I Baby Talks bid. The latter only recently graduated in his last start. He is not eligible to the Preakness. Knight Warrior passed tired horses to be third.
