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AFFIRMATION REGAINS FORM TO . WIN AT BOWIE BROWN MOTH DEFEATED Wide Turn Into Stretch Costs Far-rell Horse Purse. Favored Jadaan Beaten in Third Race Track Drying Out Steadily Under Favorable Weather. BOWIE, Md., April 11. Affirmation, unable to defeat an drdinary plater in his first 1938 appearance just a few days back, moved on to a considerably better performance in earning the decision in the Lothair Purse, the six-furlong three-year-old event which featured a sunny afternoons sport at Prince Georges Park. At the end he was just clear of the poorly ridden Brown Moth, with the . latter taking second place from Swiftgold by a similar margin. The score was the second in the career of the A. S. Hewett colorbearer, which broke his maiden over the Bowie track last November. The Runantell Litany gelding was a 2.60 to chance, with OMalley handling him in far more alert and vigorous fashion than he piloted a hot favorite, Jadaan, earlier in the afternoon. Over a steadily drying track Affirmation put in jel fair race to complete the distance in 1:14. The runner-up, who performed as if best, was the fourth choice to suffer defeat. GETS FAST START. OMalley got Affirmation away fast at the start, and the Runantell gelding gained a slight advantage as the eight contestants swung into motion. The Virginia-owned racer set the pace for the first quarter and then dropped back as Suburbanite rushed through on the inside followed by Swift-gold to set the pace around the turn. Affirmation saved ground while making that turn and then took the shortest way from the top of the stretch. Brown Moth beat only one horse from the gate and was far out of it during the back stretch run. He moved up steadily on the outside making the turn to be within striking distance of the leaders swinging for home. There Vedder made his error. The Ziegler pair, Suburbanite and Swiftgold, went wide, leaving an opening through which several horses could have been driven. Instead of taking advantage of this, Vedder made a wider turn into the stretch. This cost him the race. The Brown Bud colt closed gamely to be going swiftest of all at the end. VETERAN AGAINST APPRENTICE. It was a veteran against a boy with little experience in the initial half mile and this tilted the scales in favor of the Millsdale Stables Sea Shell, which earned a neck decision over Prince Gale when Charley Cor-bett clearly outrode Danny Driscoll from the head of the stretch to the winning post It was the twelfth winner of the meeting for that boy, who could have earned the main money with either of the first two at the finish. The score also marked the sixth of the session for trainer Tony Pelleteri. Three lengths back of the runner-up Macie Margaret was along in time to nose Bold Lad out for third money. The successful daughter of Continued on eighteenth page. AFFIRMATION REGAINS FORM TO WIN AT BOWIE Continued from first page. Jean Valjean and Glory of the Seas II. was second choice at .15 to , with the runner-up a hot favorite. My surprise was pounds the best in the six furlongs claimer, which was second on the card, but there were many who believed C. W. Smith had tossed it off with the public choice, just as Driscoll did on the initial favorite. However, the eye-in-the-sky straightened out matters to the complete satisfaction of form players, giving the eyelash decision to the gelded son of Nassak and The Missus, with Inactive nosing Guinea Doric out of the place award and Bad Dreams a scant half length away. The successful plater was a 31 to 20 chance. The start saw My Surprise last of the eleven contestants to leave and he had to close a tremendous gap on the outside to be in a contending position at the top of the stretch. Then he finished with good courage to outlast Inactive in the last few strides. FANS DISAPPOINTED. Jadaan, a warmly supported choice, met defeat in the six furlongs claimer, which was third on the card, when Corbett handled Funderburg much more capably than OMal-ley piloted the favorite. This enabled R. A. Cowards Delectable II. gelding to earn a neck decision over his more highly regarded rival, with the tiring Irenes Bob a length farther away. Stable support made the winner a .45 to chance, with the score being the second of the afternoon for his rider. That boy had booted Sea Shell to victory in the opener. Catchall, presumably the same horse that was beaten by thirteen lengths on Friday in a race where he never showed the slightest vestige of speed, took the track right after the start in the mile and a sixteenth of the fourth race never to be headed. At the end he was three lengths in advance of Mariato, with the latter just clear of Blade Edge. Few fancied the chances of the Bagenbag-gage gelding as he paid 5.65 to . Ladino, ever partial to the Bowie footing, had class over the platers that engaged in the sixth race. This enabled him to get up in time to take a nose decision from Sand Cloud, with Miss Tiptoe in third place, a length and a half further away. The nine-year-old son of Ladkin and Cuba Belle came from last place to make the accounting, scoring his third victory in ten 1938 chances. He was well supported, his odds being 5-2.
