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TRIPLE FOR PELLETERI Alms Heads Trio of Stable Winners at Havre de Grace. Jockey Charley Stevenson Shares in Days Honors Footing Remains in a Heavy Condition. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.f April 20. Making her first start in the East after finishing second to Greentree Stables Day Off in the latest edition of the Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans, Alms, chestnut daughter of St. Brideaux, was winner of the Fort McHenry Purse. It was an allowance race for three-year-old fillies and the main contest on the program at Havre de Grace today. Coming from last position in the sprint of six furlongs, which brought out nine others of her age, it gave Anthony Pelleteri the honor of tightening the girths of his third winner of the afternoon, he having sent Bold Fay and Dog Flower out in earlier races to account for their engagements under jockey C. Stevenson, who shared in the triple. Two others saddled by Pelleteri finished in the money, Millchic being third in the first race and Mystic Isle second in the fifth. REFRESHMENT SECOND. In the.best offering Regresh:nt, from the R. S. Clark stable, landed in second position ill LCI muji. f fell to the lot of H. P. Headleys Airacuda, when she came up resolutely in the late stages from a slow beginning to gain a camera decision over Suzanne Peck. The others, led home by Miss Happy, were in strung-out order over the deep and holding track and the time was 1:18. In the early stages of the contest with Suzanne Peck on the head end, the chances of Alms did not appear any too bright. She tagged along in last position while Refreshment and Speed Ship raced nearest to the pacemaker. Losing ground but finding better footing out in the middle of the track, Alms charged up fast leaving the far side and midway on the turn was in sixth place. In the meantime Refreshment had overhauled Suzanne Peck and she went into a lead of two lengths to appear all over a winner a furlong from home, but Alms was just beginning to give her best and she came along rapidly to run the R. S. Clark filly down in the last sixteenth for the victory that came by one length. WEATHER IMPROVES. "With overhead conditions more pleasant than on other days this week, there was considerably more interest in the sport despite the heavy condition of the racing surface. Twelve two-year-olds, under claiming conditions, met in the first race that was a dash of four and one-half furlongs, and it brought a thrilling finish with Press Time, from the Brandywine Stable, victorious after leading throughout. Second went to Pompe Grande, which raced for H. M. Babylon, and Millchic was abreast of the pair to take the measure of the favorite, Sealoch, which had no chance to extend herself in the last sixteenth when caught behind the leading trio. Nine of the lowest grade three-year-olds on the grounds furnished the contention in the Continued on twenty-eighth page. TRIPLE FOR PELLETERI Continued from first page. six furlongs of the second and it resulted in a driving victory for Millsdale Stables Bold Fay, the public choice. Coming from behind, the daughter of Bull Dog under a rousing finish by jockey C. Stevenson, was over the line before Barraca, of the L. Houff barn, with Bob Junior taking third from Dinamita. The Millsdale Stable sent forth another winner in the running of the third race, fashioned for fillies and mares of the older division, when Dog Flower, in her first outing this season, turned back six opponents at the end of six furlongs. Jockey C. Stevenson was astride the four-year-old daughter of Bull Dog and it took his best riding skill to have the filly home in advance of Perlette, which ruled a luke-warm choice. The first two cut out practically all of the running during the contest and the finish found them separated by a length and .one-half as Brass Bottle landed into third place, one length before Dizzy Dame. Another victory for the Pelleteri-Stevenson combination was narrowly missed when Mystic Isle, after leading most of the distance in the fifth race, succumbed to Tanganyika to be beaten one length by the John E. Hughes colt. Jockey C. Stevenson had the Pelleteri filly in advance of her company until the last sixteenth, where the victor drove through along the inner rail to draw away from the tiring Jamestown miss. Third went to Cackle Time, from the E. K. Bryson barn, and Beacon Rock took the measure of two others. Helens Lad, one of the better fancied starters, ruined whatever chance he may have had when he ran off six furlongs after tossing jockey C. Friedman from the saddle while on parade.
