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CHALLEPHEN TRIUMPHS Takes Southern Maryland Handicap at Extremely Long Odds. Defeats Aneroid in Final Bowie Feature, Earning ,850 Grand Slam Takes Fifth Race. BOWIE, Md., April 13. Challephen, Maryland-bred son of Challenger II, and Phenomenon, proved one of the numerous surprises on the mid-week program at Prince Georges Park as he nosed the highly regarded Aneroid out of major honors in the Southern Maryland Handicap, principal distance event of the spring session at the local grounds. Before one of the largest crowds of the meeting, the R. L. Brann colorbearer, favored by a twenty-three-pound weight pull, staged a mighty rally on the outside to get up in the last stride. One length back of the two was the poorly ridden High Velocity, a colt which performed as if pounds the best. The winner, conditioned in the Bowie Spring Handicap, improved considerably over that effort to travel the distance in 1:47, thereby gathering the ,850 which -was the winners portion. He was slightly better than 27 to 1 in the mutuels, and the longest priced winner of the meeting. The -runner-up, despite his 129-pound package, was best fancied of the ten contestants and the fourth favorite to fail. GOOD WEATHER. For the third consecutive afternoon perfect weather prevailed and this, coupled with the best card of the session, was responsible for the large off-day assemblage. Winners, however, were difficult to locate, with solid horses disappointing in the majority of events. Challephen was favored by his 106-pound impost in the Southern Maryland. This enabled Eddie De Camillas to have him in a good position for the entire trip. He drove the gelding hard on the turn to reach fourth place swinging for home and then put forth all the vigor he could command in the run through the home stretch, catching Aneroid wavering right at the end. Grand Slam, after two seasons of failure, re-entered the ranks of winners in the Glen-burnie Handicap, the days secondary attraction. In so doing he registered the first of the meeting for the string maintained by the Bomar Stable, a Detroit-owned outfit. At the end Vedder had the Chance Play Jeanne Bowdre five-year-old just clear of Sunned, with the latter nosing High Hedge out of the place. The score gave Vedder a double and proved about as surprisingly as his triumph on Cogie, for Grand Slam was a shade better than 16 to 1 in the machines. OUTPACED EARLY. The horse from Detroit was badly outpaced for the first quarter mile, but moved up steadily on the outside while making the turn, and then finished with a mighty rush, while following the same route through the stretch. He was going away at the end, as he finished the distance in 1:32, the meetings best time for the distance. Dissembler, making his initial 1938 appearance, proved best of the dozen maidens which appeared in the six-furlong opener. William Zieglers Display Imaginary colt, liberally supported by comeback orders, was a length in advance of Yarn Sox at the end, with American Sand a length and a half farther away. At 16 to 5 he was one of the best-backed contestants in the event. Cogie, a first-time starter from the barn of Continued on eighteenth page. CHALLEPHEN TRIUMPHS Continued from first page. Ray Bryson and a warm Baltimore tip, made the accounting in the six furlongs of the second, a three-year-old claimer. At the end the daughter of Cohort and Bogie was three lengths in advance of Miss Oak, with the latter saving the place from Acute by a pair of lengths. Another three lengths away was the public choice, Greenski. Only a select few wagered on the Baltimore miss and as a result she paid the considerable price of 17.45 for . Playmore, backed with plenty of confidence despite three defeats during the meeting, drove to a length victory in the mile and a sixteenth of the third, beating a common lot of platers. Place honors went to Moralist, which displayed a big improvement over his last to take that award by a head margin from Guinea Doric, with Judge Hasten another head away. The Blind Play geld- j ing was best backed of the eleven contestants and paid .05 for . I
