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Three -Year -Olds Clash In Pimlico Main Event Picotee, Spangled Game and Blue Sash Vie in Toro Purse BALTIMORE, Md., April 17.— Tomorrows ■= j j headliner at Pimlico is a ,500 mile and i I 70 yards allowance event, titled the Toro ■ j I Purse, which holds seventh position on the e| I program. Although not an endowed race, it 1 1 I has drawn a field of three-year-olds among g i which are nominees for stakes to be de-1 tided during this meeting. In the group p j " are such as the W. L. Brann entry of Pico-tee ~ and Declared, both eligible to the Preak-ness Stakes. Blue Sash and Bibelot, to! 0| mention a few others. Under allowance e I conditions of the affair, Spangled Game; ei _i has been assigned top weight of 120 pounds. s. j ; Others are Comenow 117 pounds; Grey! y | Flares 105; Say Miss 103; Tidy Reward! dj 112; Blue Sash 115; Bibelot 100; Declared d | and Picotee, 108. and Lord Cutts, 114. Spangled Game, a Greentree Stable i homebred, raced consistently in Florida this! .- * winter, winning three out of his last fourj * starts at Tropical Park and Hialeah. Thej • | ■on of Reigh Count got home in front of as 15 j good a colt as Leavenworth in his last out- ;- j ing down South, over the mile and 70 yards Is route. Previous to that race he won a mile le| | and a sixteenth test over the grass course e ■ ; at Hialeah Park. Mrs. D. H. Peter "s Comenow also had _ a successful campaign over the Florida tracks ■ before coming here. He has finished in the ip j i money in his last six starts, and in his last 5t engagement under silks at Tropical Park, s chalked up a hard-earned triumph when he | led Tidy Reward home by a neck at one ie and one-sixteenth miles. Tidy Reward, after losing to Comenow w : in his last race at Tropical Park, came, ie. north and returned to his winning ways at *: j I this oval on Saturday, when he whipped i ~ 5t s | he ie : w at ie. *: j I i ~ the odds-on favorite. Justa Note, by a head | in a six-furlong sprint. Picotee finished fourth in the Rowe Me- I morial here on opening day, and Bibelot i is credited with a good second to Bird Hawk in his first try of this strip last week. I The top offering should suffice to whet j appetites of turf enthusiasts. The remain- I der of the card comprises six claiming frays and a steeplechase affair. At two miles, the j : latter brings together such as Treford, Sir | , Bluesteel, Matsonia, Flying Tiger, Sander, j Beneksar and Refugio. All are familiar to I adherents of the through-the-field phase j of the sport. Post time for the first race J is 12:00 noon.
