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CHARLOTTE GIRL UNDEFEATED Scores Fourth Triumph in Kindergarten Stakes at Bowie. Home-Bred Daughter of Cohort Fourth Straight Favorite to Score Held at 9 to 10 in Wagering. BOWIE, Md., April 1. Charlotte Girl, filly champion of Florida winter racing, continued on her unbeaten way as a new eastern turf season opened at Prir vj George Park this afternoon. Before aj xcellent inaugural gathering, the home-b s daughter of Cohort and Virginella, which races for Elwood Sachsenmaier, registered decidedly the most popular triumph of the day as she galloped past the judges a length and a half in front of Our Chuckie, with the latter just nosing Star Runner out of the place award. In view of her excellent record at Hialeah Park, where she won her only three starts, which included the filly division of the Nursery Stakes, the brown miss paid an excellent price" when she showed 9 to 10 in the mutuels. She was the shortest priced choice of the afternoon and the fourth straight to win. The victory added ,850 to earlier earnings and impressed Marylanders that she is a youngster well above the average. FOURTH FILLY TO SCORE. Six went to the post in the Kindergarten, three of them winners in Miami and an equal number first-time starters. Charlotte Girl left the post readily, but was outpaced by Our Chuckie and Star Runner for the first quarter mile. She was driven around the two turning for home, as her pilot selected the firmest footing and closed steadily Continued on twentysixth page. I i t I i ! I . i ! j ! 1 j j CHARLOTTE GIRL UNDEFEATED Continued from first page. after being roused with the whip to win going away. It was the fourth filly score in the history of the race, Wise Daughter, Angelic and Irrepressible being the other winners of that sex. Abdicate, a first-time starter from the sta ble of S. Lurman Stewart, accounted for the initial event of the 1938 season in the East when he took a half-length decision- from Mrs. A. Pelleteris Prowl in the five and a half furlongs dash, which was limited to Maryland-bred non-winners. Prowl was up in the final stride to nese out the tiring Oteebee for the place prize. Wayne Wright had Abdicate away briskly, but he could not keep step with Oteebee in the run down the back stretch and around the turn. However, he had the speed to out-I foot the other eight starters and closed in de-. termined fashion in the last eighth to be up in the final yards. BY NARROWEST MARGIN. Bobby Curran had plenty of confidence in the ability of New Deal to beat a first-class field of sprinting platers in the six furlongs of the second race, but it required the "eye-in-the-sky" to call the gelding winner over Winning Chance. At the end, the son of Broadway Jones and Ethel Dear, which was making his first start since last November at this track, was a nose in advance of Winning Chance, with Chief Cherokee two lengths farther away. Jockey Smith had New Deal away well and sent him after the pacemakers while obtaining clear passage on the outside. He went to Winning Chance swiftly turning for home in a move which suggested a handy victory, but started to bear out through the final furlong and was as straight as a string at the end. "High Tension, a California campaigner, handled with better judgment by Shelhamer than Young displayed atop Chrysmute, gained a decision over the latter mare in the mile and a sixteenth claimer which was third on the card. A length and a half away Play-more outlasted Synod for third money. The A. C. Compton gelding was the third consecutive choice to score, victory being made possible when his pilot had him out in the middle of the track in the firmest footing, while Chrysmute was being taken through the deepest going on the rail. Guy Bedwell, returned from the California wars, struck two telling blows for A. C. Compton when he sent Vicar to win the mile and seventy yards Severn Purse. This gave the veteran Maryland trainer a double and did the same for jockey Shelhamer. The score of Vicar was accomplished with much ease, the six-year-old son of Flying Ebony breezing past the judges four lengths in advance of Sun Power, with Trina two lengths away. Vicars triumph marked the fifth of the afternoon for a favorite and was distinctly refreshing for those who participated in Florida racing during the winter. Now Then, a colt which could have commanded a fancy price after his brilliant inaugural at Belmont Park last spring, proved swiftest of the six contestants in the five and a half furlongs Potomac Purse, a three-year-old dash which brought forth three Kentucky Derby eligibles. One of these, Chaps, was four lengths behind F. J. Buchanans Benjam and Warlaine, the other two Derby colts, were well beaten. The son of Dis Done and Meetme was second choice to Benjam when he showed 11 to 5.
