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LAURELS JUAL EVENTS Selima Stakes and Maryland Handicap Top Saturdays Features. First Mentioned to Net Winner About 0,000 Pine Fields for Both Stakes. LAUREL, Md., Oct. 23. Two feature events, each of a high order, will be offered to patrons at the Laurel course of the Maryland State Fair, Inc., on Saturdays seven-race program. Holding the center of interest is the eleventh running of the Selima Stakes. This is at one mile, confined to two-year-old fillies, to which the local organization has added 0,000. Under the conditions of the race, however, the winners share will be in excess of twice that amount, the specific sum depending upon the number of starters. Nineteen have been named overnight. Heading the supporting offerings and a feature in its own right is the Maryland Handicap, exclusively for three-year-olds. The distance is one mile and a quarter, with ,000 added. Saturdays running of the Maryland will be the twenty-second, the older stake having been offered just twice as often as the juvenile test. The fillies have created a more glamorous and spectacular atmosphere in the Selima than have the three-year-olds in the Maryland. This is not because of the greater monetary value with which it is endowed, but because the field is more representative of its respective class than is the band of eight in the Maryland. Several topnotch filly youngsters of the year are seen in the list of entries for the Selima, while the cream of the three-year-old division has been retired from active competition. WAND FAVORITE. Certain to come in for stout support in the Selima is Walter M. Jeffords Wand. This fleet filly, although late to show to her best advantage, has established an enviable reputation. Her chief achievement was her victory in corking fashion in the Matron Stakes at Belmont Park, in which she administered defeat to some of her opponents for the Selima. Hal Price Headleys Apogee is another which will find favor with the talent. King Ranchs Dawn Play, a close second to Wand in the Matron, showed an impressive conditioning mile, being caught in 1:41. Mae-mere Farm Stables Maecloud gave evidence of fitness when she came from last place to capture the mile Bolivar Purse over the Laurel course last Tuesday. The Bolivar was looked upon as a test for the Selima, and Evening Tide, which finished a close second to Maecloud in the running, after leading throughout, will have her chance for revenge. Others named for the contest include Mrs. R. A. Van Cliefs Morning, which won a mile Continued on thirty-ninth page. LAURELS DUAL EVENTS Continued from first page. race at Laurel last Saturday to attest her fitness. H. W. Maxwells Dizzy Dame, Milky Way Farm Stables Talma Dee, C. V. Whitneys Peplum and several others which cannot be entirely ignored. The running of the Selima could not settle the leadership of the filly division. MEMORY BOOKS RIVALS. Interest has pyramided in what might otherwise have been a dull Maryland handicap with the advent of Greentree Stables Memory Book. While this fellow has been an unreliable sort this year, the ease with which he trounced Count Arthur in the Breeders Stakes at Keeneland forces recog-I nition of his prowess. A similar perform- ance in the Maryland will force respect from his opponents. Memory Book will not have everything his own way. however, for he faces several rivals which have demonstrated present fitness. Bow and Arrow, from the stable of E. R. Bradley, breezed one mile and a quarter handily on Wednesday In 2:0854. The Walter M. Jeffords" pair, Jean Bart and Giant Killer, have satisfied trainer Burch by satisfactory trials. Foxcatcher Farm Stables Gold Seeker went a handy mile on Tuesday in 1:45. H. C. McGehees Fair Knightess took top honors in the mile iLaurel Handicap last Saturday. King Ranch Stables Split Second gets in lightly burdened under 106 pounds, while E. D. Shaffers Floradora has done everything asked of her in training moves. " Chief of the supporting races is the Glen-wood Handicap at one mile and one-sixteenth, which will be offered as the sixth race. Six capable campaigners headed in the matter of weights by F. M. Alger, Jr.s Azucar under 122 pounds have been named.
