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CHALMAC EASILY BEST Maryland-Bred Captures Greenbury Purse at Bowie Course. Marion W. Accounts for the Opener, With Jaw Breaker and Phillips Pete Also Among Winners. BOWIE, Md., April 5. Chalmac, a Maryland-bred son of Challenger II. and Peggy Mac, which was a forward factor during the early running of the Flamingo Stakes at Hia-leah Park last month, proved decisively best of the eight three-year-olds which appeared in the Greenbury Purse. The five and a half furlongs dash featured mid-week competition at Prince Georges Park. At the end the Crescent Stable colorbearer was three lengths in advance of his nearest opponent as he completed the journey in 1:07. Closest to him at the winning post was Guy Bedwells Superstition, which dropped out of the clouds in the last furlong to snatch the place from Robespierre by a head margin, with Ace Call a neck farther away. The winner, at 2 to 1, was a split choice with the Bedwell-A. C. C. Stable entry of Superstition and Ace Call. Though he had turned in several capable races during 1938, this triumph marked Chalmacs first of the year and the second of his career. WEATHER MODERATES. Moderating weather and a bright sun made conditions perfect for the sport, with form horses showing more life than on the preceding afternoon. The chances of Chalmac appeared nothing to enthuse over during the first half of the race. The Maryland colt was pinned in along the rail as he raced well off the pace for the first quarter, with Seabo finally taking back and going to the outside on the turn. His mount moved up steadily from the three furlongs mark to the top of the stretch and then came past the leaders with a spurt that carried him on to an easy victory. Superstition, an early dullard, looked hopelessly beaten on the middle of the turn and just the other side of the furlong post.it appeared that he had scant chance to be among the first three. In the last eighth he came through with a nice burst of speed to run past tiring horses and gain the place. Robespierre, away forwardly, moved into second place on the turn, but could not catch the flying pacemaker and finally chucked it himself: Ace Call was right there for the entire journey. Continued on twenty-third page. CHALMAC JASILY BEST Continued from first page. Roman Boy, winner of two out of three on the half-milers last year, opened up a big lead in the first quarter and held it to the top of the stretch. Then he began to shorten stride, and at the end was a weary fifth. Watersplash, one of those champion "if" horses for which racegoers are always offering excuses, failed the public once more in the mile and one-sixteenth claimer which attracted the afternoons second-best field. She lost a head decision to Anglo Saxon, with Lourdes a neck farther away. The victory of Willie Martins gelding was the eighth of the meeting for Johnny Oros, now Americas leading jockey. Oros had Anglo Saxon away rapidly and clear going to the first turn. He steadied the son of Saxon Blue Grass Belle along slightly in advance of his company for six furlongs, driving him thereafter when Lourdes rushed up on the inside. The latter gained command in the stretch, but Anglo Saxon came again to get up in the final yards. Marion W. started the eastern season well for "Sonny" Workman. The Washington saddle veteran drove her to a head victory over Donnagina in the opening four-furlong claimer. The successful daughter of John P. Grier was not best, however, as the runner-up would have triumphed only for interference suffered shortly after-the start. The battle between the leading pair through the final furlong had them three lengths in advance of Preferred Time as they passed the judges. Pompanita was a head farther away. FILLY BEARS OUT. The Arcturus Stable filly bore out badly in her previous start over the track, a move which cost her the race. Today Workman held her to a true course on the turn and while she slanted cut in the stretch she did not lose much ground, hanging on with good courage under extreme pressure through the last furlong. Phillips Pete, a five-year-old son of Canter and Belle of Plymouth, which has been away from the races for a trifle more than two years, returned to competition to beat a bad lot of Maryland-bred maidens in the second. The W. F. Wicks gelding was going easily, three lengths in advance of Jolly Flag at the final post, with the latter just outlasting Big Buddy for third money. The Canter gelding left the post a trifle sluggishly, but went into contention after three furlongs had been completed, breezing past the leaders in the home stretch and on to an easy score. Jaw Breaker, a Santa Anita campaigner, was best favored by the breaks in the six furlongs third, and he drove to a neck victory over the less fortunate Cobe, with Mae-beau a head farther away. The winner, a .35 to chance, completed the distance in 1:13 in what was his third 1939 triumph. Rollins had the five-year-old son of Chicle Baba Kenny away swiftly from an outer post position to force the pace of Vote Boy for a quarter mile. He moved around the older horse on the turn to gain a slight advantage, one to which he hung tenaciously under punishment in the last three-sixteenths. In Memory, a lightly regarded outsider, drove to a head victory in the sixth, getting up in the final yards to wear down Bill Bleiweiss. Another neck away was Rowes Crump, which raced on his own courage throughout and performed as if much the best. Itwas the seasons first for the Bos-tonian Mary Ford gelding and he turned m a game effort to gain the decision.
