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BOWIE H1ST0RYREPEATS Guy Bedwell and Jockey Shelhamer Duplicate 1938 Success. Hypocrite Wins Bowie Handicap Over a Slow Track, With Light Rain Falling Net Value ,650. BOWIE, Md,. April 1. History repeated itself at Prince Georges Park this afternoon when trainer Guy Bedwell and jockey Al Shelhamer registered their second consecutive triumph in the Bowie Handicap, the mile and seventy yards stake which featured a rainy half-holiday at the southern Maryland grounds. This time their score was made possible by the superior mudding ability of Ral Parrs Hypocrite, a home-bred son of Wrack and Pretense, which breezed past the judges three lengths in advance of Challephen, with Short Distance a like margin away. Last year this training and riding combine scored with Sun Egret. The victory also was the second stake of the meeting to go the way of a thoroughbred owned and bred by a Marylander, Rough Time taking the Rowe Memorial on Thursday for the Christmas clan. The race, which was run through a light rain and over a slow track, was witnessed by a crowd that filled the spacious stand and clubhouse to capacity, with a slight overflow braving the elements along the front rail. Despite the fact that Hypocrite is Maryland-owned and I Bedwell-trained, there was no considerable support for the four-year-old, due to a drab record at Santa Anita during the winter. COMMENDABLE EFFORT. The score was the sixth of his career and added ,650 to earlier earnings. In view of the footing, the colts final time of 1:46 for the distance, marked a commendable effort. Hypocrite left the post alertly to be with the leaders in the run to and around the first turn, with Shelhamer easing back as the field started to bunch once well in the back stretch. The Wrack colt did not have one of his five rivals beaten at the turn out of that lane, but the entire group was well bunched. Swinging for liome, he brought the Parr colorbearer along smartly to have all but Challephen beaten by the time the furlong mark was reached. From that point to the winning post he ran over the son of Challenger II. MOVES FAST NEAR END. Challephen, reserved during the initial half of the race, moved up swiftly on the last turn to take command a quarter of a mile from the finish and gain at the head of the stretch. He looked all over the winner at the furlong post, but tired suddenly in the last sixteenth. The race should do him a world of good. Short Distance was hustled into a clear, early lead, which he maintained for the first four furlongs. She dropped back as the leaders bunched on the far turn and then came on again. Unheralded made a bold run going along the far side of the track, Continued on second page. BOWIE HISTORY REPEATS Continued from first page. but was a beaten horse at the middle of the last turn. Bunny Baby put in a good six furlongs. High Velocity, top weight of the field, had speed for the same distance and probably was short. The Miami campaigner Rissa registered the third victory of the afternoon for horses which wintered at that resort, as she drove to a length and a half triumph in the six furlongs dash which preceded the stake. This was the days second best offering. White Cockade, closing slowly under the whip, saved the place award from the weary Zostera by a like margin. The Bud Lerner Orissa filly was well supported by Nat Ray and his connections as her price of 3 to 1 will attest Her final time of 1:14 was good in view of track conditions. Rissa was outrun for the first half mile, while Zostera was racing alongjn front, but turning for home she warmed to her work and closed stoutly on the inside to gain command at the sixteenth pole and win drawing away. White Cockade broke swiftly, but lacked the speed to go with the pace. He was under intermittent punishment in the last quarter, but to no avail. Zostera rushed away from the post at top speed to open up a commanding early lead. He maintained this until straightened away for home and then the field started to overtake him. He was mighty tired at the end, but the effort should improve him. Ray Brysons Nosy, recently arrived from New Orleans where he turned in a keen performance in his lone public outing, proved best of the half a dozen male non-winners which appeared in the initial four furlongs dash for juveniles. Running like a proper 9 to 10 chance, the son of Whiskalong and Gabfest carried the Baltimoreans silks to a half length triumph over Rumbagus, as he completed his journey in :49. Half a dozen lengths behind the runner-up, Port Wales outlasted Din for third money. Sol Rutchick had Cobe a f horse for the second and, with Donoso riding a strong race on the Tall Timber gelding, that fellow raced to a three length victory over Maebeau. Another two lengths away was the tiring Sun Antioch, which ruled an equal choice with the winner, each being .90 to . Cobe had to race on the inside for the first half mile as he went along head and head with Sun Antioch. He carried that fellow into; defeat by the time the home stretch was reached, curving well away from the rail as he swung into that lane and drawing off from his opposition in the last eighth.
