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CIENCIA CHESAPEAKE ENTRY Santa Anita Derby Winner One of Thirty-Four Nominations. Havre de Grace Fixture Has 5,000 Added Eight Thirty and Volitant Included in List of Nominations. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 4. Ciencia, winner of the fifth Santa Anita 1 Derby and on this years form considered one of the most formidable three-year-olds in the country, is one of thirty-four nominations for the twentieth Chesapeake Stakes, which will be run here April 22 during the course of thirteen days of racing the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association will inaugurate April 15. The daughter of Cohort Science is in the division of the King Ranch stable young "Buddy" Hirsch had in California through the winter and will race in Maryland this spring. The Chesapeake, a 5,000 dash of one mile and a sixteenth, generally attracts each spring from six to a dozen of the prominent three-year-olds that have been nominated for revivals of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, and its nineteenth renewal has maintained that tradition, although Ciencia is not a Derby and Preakness eligible herself. For Derby and Preakness aspirants among its thirty-four potential starters are those formidable colts Challedon, Porters Mite, Eight Thirty, Day Off, Roll and Toss, Volitant, Impound and Deil. DEFEATED PORTERS MITE. Porters Mite, winner of last falls renewals of the Champagne and Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park, was one of the colts the surprising Ciencia defeated in the fifth Santa Anita Derby, and -it was because she licked this good son of The Porter, along with Xalapa Clown, Impound and ten others, that she has won such high rating among the American horses of her age. In the Derby at Los Angeles she turned a mile and a fur-continued on twenty-second page. CIENCIA CHESAPEAKE ENTRY Continued from first page. long under 115 pounds in 1:50 and beat Xalapa Clown, the nearest contender, by five or six lengths. She earned 1,850 by this brisk performance; which stands out boldly in the records of American racing. Impound, which finished third to Ciencia and Xalapa Clown, beat Porters Mite, too. Alfred G. Vanderbilt owns Impound. Volitant, hope of the Saratoga Stable of George Bull and John A. Morris, respectively president and secretary-treasurer of the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses, ran the Kentucky Derby candidate Technician to a neck at Hialeah Park in the Flamingo Stakes renewal about an hour before Ciencia executed that astonishing stunt on the Pacific Coast. Day Off as recently as March 26 won a Louisiana Derby under the cherry and black jacket of Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney. EIGHT THIRTY DANGEROUS. Eight Thirty, s6n of Pilate and ace of the stable of George D. Widener of Philadelphia, did not race in the winter, but last year he won renewals of the Christiana and Flash Stakes and was just nosed out by Porters Mite in the Belmont Futurity. Technician, the Flamingo winner of February, was back in the ruck. Deil, from the stable of Don Ross of Wilmington, ran Eight Thirty to a head in the Christiana and in October and November the Maryland-bred Challedon won Maryland, New England and Pimlico Futurities. Roll and Toss, another Greentree Stable colt, won at Hialeah in February. The lesser Chesapeake eligibles are Hants, Ariel Toy, Challenge, Guyencourt, Temulac, Invader, Golden Clown, Brazado, Equestrian, Affair, Sun Lover, Alms, Capulet, Shambles, Mystery Girl, Gilded Knight, Devils Peak, Sea Captain, Heather Broom, Counterpoise, Whisperer, Exploded and Birch Rod.
