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Four Named for Potomac Stakes One May Decline If Track Is Off OffMarine Marine Victory Topweight Under 120 Held Doubtful Blue Yonder Chief Rival RivalHAVRE HAVRE DE GRACE Md May 17 Only four threeyearolds one of whom may not start if the track is off were drawn for the 10000 added Potomac Stakes which whichwill will be feature the weekend program here tomorrow tomorrowListed Listed as overnight starters in the one mile and an eighth special final feature of the second meeting here for members of the sophomore division are Mrs Robert H Heighes Proverb Mrs E H Augustus Blue Yonder R Bruce Livies Marine Victory and Bomar Stables Billy Bumps Marine Victory the Potomac highweight under 120 pounds may decline the issue if the footing is soft softAlthough Although the track which has absorbed copious quantities of rain since the meet ¬ ing began last Monday was improving gradually under a drying sun early today a forecast for additional showers tonight struck a discouraging chord chordDespite Despite the dissappointingly small field the Potomac may well provide one of the more interesting contests of the current meeting Establishing a prerace favorite poses a difficult task although Marine Vic ¬ tory provided he starts may earn that dis ¬ tinction The handsome blond son of Heliopolis and Passarine left much to be desired in his Kentucky Derby and Preak riess engagements but will engage a far inferior group tomorrow and appears com ¬ fortably rigged under his Potomac impost of 120 pounds poundsBlue Blue Yonder a game chestnut son of Ariel Reighzelle no doubt will vie with Marine Victory for favoritism and will gain much additional support in the event of an off track trackBlue Blue Yonder Carries 117 117In In his last race here Blue Yonder turned in a smart victory over a sloppy track rac ¬ ing a mile and a sixteenth in 148 to defeat three good rivals including Billy Bumps In a prior engagement during the first meeting here Blue Yonder easily won the six furlongs Chesapeake Trial Stakes rac ¬ ing six furlongs over a fast track in the creditable time of 112 Blue Yonders Potomac weight is 117 pounds poundsBilly Billy Bumps who also will take up 117 was a front rank performer as a twoyear old but so far has failed to race to his juvenile form The colt may not have liked the sloppy track in his prior start when he finished third as a beaten favorite in the race won by Blue Yonder Proverb a filly last raced in Pimlicos one mile and a six ¬ teenth Oaks and finished a fast closing fourth after having lost many lengths while being forced wide entering the stretch The chestnut daughter of Aethelstan n Wise Daughter who will carry 112 in the Poto ¬ mac races well over the local track having defeated some good male rivals in a mile and a sixteenth race here during the first meeting
