view raw text
Air Master to Go in Dixie; Pneumonia Fatal to Espero BALTIMORE, Md., April 30.— "Certainly, well run Air Master in the Dixie," remarked Joe L. Roberts, trainer of the John L. Sullivan stable this morning. "You know horses for courses and he showed me yesterday he liked this track." Air Master, a four-year-old gelding by Chance Shot and Zephyretta has been assigned 112 pounds for the Dixie. This is two pounds more than he shouldered in his record-breaking effort in which he took the track at flagfall and held a commanding lead throughout, winning easily. Trainer Roberts happiness was tempered however by the death from pneumonia of Espero, a likely three-year-old who won three of his starts last season. The colt became ill upon being shipped from New Orleans and he only recently suffered a relapse. He was a son of Hygro and Gay Mabel.
