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BLAZING- HEAT EARNS PlllSE Winter Track Disappointment Finds Her Speed at Bowie. Favorites Fare Better on Second Day of Meeting Victory Completes Double for Charley Stevenson. BOWIE, Md., March 31. Blazing Heat, a i-iiss who journeyed to Prince feorges Park from Santa Anita by way of New Orleans, having no success at either winter track, proved decidedly best of the three-year-olds assembled in the six furlongs claimer which attracted the best field of the afternoon at this grounds. At the end, Mrs. A. Pelleteris colorbearer was three lengths in advance of Sure Miss and moving away as she completed the distance in 1:14, a keen effort over the water soaked track. Another three lengths back Blacky Bee managed to save third money from Darby Du by a head margin. The triumph marked the fourth in the career of the Big Blaze Assembly filly and was her first appearance in a claiming affair since her 1938 final at Pimlico in November. The victory gave Charley Stevenson, who bids fair to be the meetings leading rider a double, as he had taken the preceding dash with Blazearound. PLATERS DAY. The second day of the Southern Maryland Associations spring meeting was dominated by platers, with six of the seven events holding a claiming clause. The sport was considerably more formful than on the initial afternoon, solid horses being right there or thereabouts in the majority of events. The chances of Blazing Heat did not appear particularly bright during the early stages of her race as she was well off the leaders during the back stretch run. She went into contention steadily on the turn and came through the stretch with a sharp flash of speed to wear down Sure Miss in the last eighth. The Big Blaze filly was the second favorite to score, paying .05 to . Sure Miss forced the pace of Bing Bong for the first quarter and then moved away to a handy lead making the turn. This adantage she maintained until well in the stretch, only wilting suddenly in the last hundred yards. Blacky Bee was a forward factor throughout. ; Fair Rock broke slowly and was never a factor. Darby Du ducked for the inner rail at the break and dropped back to last place, closing rapidly in the final quarter to be fourth. T.TIfRS TVTTTTI Lourdes, a filly which couldnt run a lick in her last three starts at Miami, must have found the muddy going more to her fancy in the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth. At any rate the one-time Greentree four-year-old, which now races for D. J. Sullivan, breezed to an easy score in this race, passing the judges four lengths in advance of Fight Back. The latter saved second place from Panorama by a pair of lengths. There was scant public support for the Whichone Shrine filly. Eva JR., ebony campaigner from New Orleans, proved swiftest of the ,000 top and bottom platers in the initial six furlongs, driving to a length victory over the better favored Irenes Bob, with Transit Lady a couple of lengths away. Snider hustled the "seven-year-old daughter of Omond to the front directly after the start and drove her hard throughout to make the accounting. At .35 to she was second choice to the runner-up. Irenes Bob always was in closest pursuit of the winners pace, but in the last furlong Snider outrode Friedman. Transit Lady raced steadily and forwardly on the inside I throughout to gain third money. . Villalobo was of little assistance in the final drive. FYAN BEST. Fyan, making her first appearance since last May, had no great difficulty disposing of a cheap band of Marylarid-breds in the five and a half furlongs of the second. She was two lengths in front of Quiet Time at the final pole, with that filly leading Clever Girl by a similar margin. The winner was best fancied in a field of a dozen, showing .65 to in the machines. Anticosti, the hottest sort of a tip in the five and a half furlongs dash for filly non-winners of the three-year-olds and upward division, probably was best, but she ran to the outside fence in the stretch while enjoying a comfortable lead and so her owner had to be content with the trifling award that goes to the fourth horse. The winners end was the portion of the Shandon Farms Blazearound, which registered in a hard drive with Distort a neck back as she saved third money from Abbots Lark by a head. Another neck away was Anticosti, a heavily-backed favorite at 4 to 5.
