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— — ■*— - . ■ — rim CRISPIN OGLEBAY— His good four-year-old, Ocean Blue, was successful in the Jennings at Pimlico yesterday. *■ i/ r I L. i iv /* * I r* g r j it rrv ■ mmwtmty, may , I*** Ocean Blue Never Headed in Jennings Equals Pimlicos Track Mark In Handy Score Over Doublrab Favored Transfigure Runs 1 Third Following Poor Start — Six Furlongs in 1 :10 4-5 BALTIMORE, Md., May 4. — Ocean Blue celebrated his return to the racing wars at ancient Pimlico here this afternoon by equalling the six-furlong track standard of 1:10% in capturing the Jennings Handicap, ,000 added stakes feature, as Preak-ness week was inaugurated on the hilltop. Crispin Oglebays four-year-old Blue Larkspur gelding, fresh and fit after many months idleness, left nothing to the imagination in this conquest, bouncing to the front leaving starter Jim Miltons gate and fashioning a pace that discouraged the half dozen smart sprinters behind him. Tommy Malley bounced Ocean Blue past the final marker a length and a half in advance of Mrs. Tilyou Christophers gray Doublrab, while the latter just lasted to beat the coloiful John L. Sullivans favored Transfigure a head for the place. Richmond, prominent early, was fourth and Battle Jack disappointed a large section of the attendance. Ocean Blue carried 114 pounds, getting two from Doublrab and five from Transfigure, and skipped over a first quarter in an amazing :212/5, the half mile in an equally astonishing :44%, according to the electric teletimer. He was privately timed in :22!/s and :45%, rather remarkable speed in itself. Those who backed him received 3.70 for and he earned a net | purse of ,100 in what was a most impressive 1942 debut. A fairly large Monday attendance witnessed Ocean Blues triumph. These included owner Crispin Oglebay of Gates Mills, Ohio, who appeared in the winners I ring to pat Ocean Blue affectionately and receive the trophy from the hands of official timer Willie Jennings. The Jennings is named for his father, who trained some of the earlier Preakness winners. Never Required to Meet Any Challenge Ocean Blues defiance of the elements of time or space only further illuminated the speed-conducive condition of Baltimores racing strip for this meeting. Earlier in the session a cluster of three course records had been bettered. Doc Jones charge darted to the front at the break, shaking off Richmond and Battle Jack early in the back stretch run, then | moved off to a daylight lead he maintained without any urging and while saving ground all the way. Never was he called upon to meet a challenge. Doublrab was widely outrun to a point about midway the stretch turn, then moved forward with a bold iush to take advantage of a spread along the rail. However, he was hanging the last part of it and made slight impression on Ocean Blues margin. Transfigure did not have a horse beaten leaving the back stretch, then came bowling along outside the field in the front path, moving by limber horses to be third, inches off the runner-up. Free Double struck a blow for the Dela-warians when he carried the Brandywine Stables colors to a well earned conquest in the six furlongs of the Brooklandwood. Johnny Deering was driving him with all the strength at his command to peg back Flaught by half a length, the latter nosing First Son out of the place. Free Double was "slow -dragging" around ► the park in 1:13 and only got home because Porter Roberts didnt inaugurate his move with Flaught a trifle sooner. Free Double killed off a Bradley Preakness eligible in Better Hurry, however. He returned 7.50 for . Johnny Loftus, former noted pilot, extended his unbroken succession of winning charges at the Pimlico meeting when he saddled Jerry Louchheims Black Grip to outfoot eleven other maiden two-year-olds in the four and a half furlongs opener. Breaking from number one, Black Grip quickly opened up daylight and won by three and a half lengths at the direct expense of Hadawin, who outfinished Ship Signal. The race was run in :54V5. and Black Grip, the choice, returned .20. J. W. Y. Martins Slow Motion widely outran 1 1 other platers in the second event, Gonzalez sending him to the front in the opening quarter and moving off to win by half a dozen lengths in 1:12. Supreme Speed outfinished the quick breaking Ma-randan for the place in a fairly close fit. Slow Motion paid .70, completing a 7 Double. Roscoe K. won his first purse since claimed by George Perry when he proved to be most capable of the dozen distance platers in the mile and seventy yards of the third.
