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TRACK SUITS JIMMIE CABANISS Wins Laurel Claiming Handicap Although Pressed at End. Heavy Footing Prevails at Havre de Grace-Dashing Doe and Wandrel Among Winners. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 26. Jim-mie Cabaniss, racing for J. Shirley Riley, found a track to his liking and suitable opposition in the Laurel Claiming Handicap, best attraction at Havre de Grace today. Tha winner dominated the race throughout, but was hard pressed at the end to stall off the belated challenge of Zay to get a head decision over that representative of Mrs. R. H. Heighe. One length away, Silent Shot was third in the silks of John E. Hughes. Ironbound and Her Reigh completed the field, reduced to five when Brown Twig and Rowes Crump were withdrawn. The winner was ridden by apprentice G. Napier. All entrants carried a claiming tag of ,000. A good start was effected and Jimmie Cabaniss and Zay fought for command as they turned into the back stretch before the others. Jimmie Cabaniss was able to outrun his nearest rival and through the back stretch continued to increase his advantage. Zay, unable to match the speed of the leader, was taken in hand as Peters was content to rate his mount. Entering the stretch Zay was sent after Jimmie Cabaniss and, under strong pressure, gradually reduced the lead of the pacemaker. Napier roused his charge in the final sixteenth when the threat of Zay became dangerous and Jimmie Cabaniss responded to the urging to maintain his short advantage at the end. Silent Shot also responded well through the final quarter mile, entering closer contention at each stride, but the margin held by the first two proved too great to overcome. ADVERSE CONDITIONS. The sport was conducted under most adverse conditions. Rain, which fell steadily throughout the night and morning, left the track heavy. The downpour stopped after the fourth race, but a cold wind sprang up, creating generally uncomfortable conditions. The attendance also fell off, due to the inclement weather. Wandrel, racing for Jay McNamara, scored her second victory at the meeting when she accounted for the opening race, at one mile and one-sixteenth, in which late scratches reduced the field of starters to five. Peppery was second, two lengths in the wake of the winner, and it was Italian Harry that lasted long enough to take third honors. Fair Billy and Canpra completed the field of ,000 top and bottom platers. Seven maiden two-year-olds remained to strive for conclusions in the daily test for juveniles that was the second offering, and it furnished opportunity for the graduation of J. W. Y. Martins home-bred Battle Jack. Ruling the choice in the speculation and ridden expertly by jockey J. OMalley, the chestnut son of John P. Grier revelled in the going and made every pole a winning one to reach the end of four and one-half furlongs holding a daylight margin over J. H. Whitneys Grape Thief. Third went to Way Out of the J. B. Belk barn, while Brown Moth led the others in the field of seven. Battle Jack, breaking from number one position, quickly shook off Way Out after the opening furlong, then nursed nicely through the remaining stages, continued briskly to have a length and one-half to spare at the end. Grape Thief, coming from fifth place, landed in second place by five lengths, as he pressed the winner, and Way Out was a half length before Brown Moth. DASHING DOE AGAIN. Dashing Doe, from the John E. Hughes stable, chalked up her second victory In three local starts since beginning her racing career when she defeated six other mediocre sprinters in the third race, for which she ruled the speculation. Showing a fondness for the footing, although outrun in the early stages while Broadkill and Aglow went out closely locked to lead the way, Dashing Doe followed back of the pair until reaching the home stretch. There she swung wide and surged to the pacemaker at the final furlong post, then coming along rapidly she drove to the finish with three lengths to spare over the Shandon Farm filly. Regal Lily, in the silks of Walter M. Jeffords and making her first start of the year, drove to victory over six of her sex and age when she led home the band of three-year-olds that opposed her in the six furlongs fourth race. This was under allowances, and it was the early pacemaker, Cosette, representing the Bomar Stable, that was second, one and one-half lengths in the wake of the winner, with third going to Shandon Farms My Elsie. The start was marred when Graceful Flight, a bad post actor, was left when the field was dispatched.
