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Havre de Grace Opens Second Meeting Card Five Stakes * At 13-Day Session Air Patrol, Blue Yonder, 1 Sea Snack and The Doge In Philadelphia Handicap HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., May 10.— Marylands spring racing season enters its final phase here on Monday, where the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association will usher in the second of its two spring meetings at 2:15 p. m. daylight saving time. The session will run for 13 days during which five stakes will be renewed. The first of those fixtures is the 0,000 Philadelphia Handicap which will be run on Monday and has attracted a sterling field of 13 top-drawer sprinters. Chief three-year-old stake of the meeting is the one mile and a furlong Potomac j Stakes, which will headline the program on Saturday, May 17. Racing secretary Charles McLennan has reason to believe several of the star sophomores who started in last weeks Kentucky Derby and todays Preak-ness at Pimlico will go postward in the 0,000 Potomac. Havre de Graces premiere event for two-year-olds is the five-furlong Eastern Shore Handicap which will be renewed on closing day of the meeting, Monday, May 26. Like the Potomac, this juvenile fixture is expected to attract a number of leading two-year-olds, including Stanley Sagners swift chestnut colt, Saggy, who set an official worlds record for four and one-half furlongs in capturing the Aberdeen Stakes during the first meeting at the Harford County course. Other stakes on the agenda during the second meeting are the Havre de Grace Breeders Stakes, for two-year-olds, foaled in Maryland, which will be run on Wednesday, May 21, and the 0,000 Havre de Grace Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward on Saturday, May 24. Topweighted Under 122 Heading the sterling band of sprinters drawn for the Philadelphia Handicap is Shamrock Stables classy Air Patrol, who was the original highweight among the 44 nominees under 122 pounds. Air Patrol returns to Maryland from New York, where in his last start he finished fifth in the rich Toboggan Handicap, won by Buzfuz. Before transferring to New York, Air Patrol was a disqualified victor of a division of the six furlongs Harford Handicap. Whether Air Patrol will rule the favorite in the Philadelphia field is a matter of conjecture at this time because the Shamrock Stable colt will be forced to concede weight to such staunch sprint rivals as , Mrs. E. H. Augustus Blue Yonder, Christiana Stables formidable four-year-old filly Sea Snack, Alfred Vanderbilts capable Kitchen Police, and Pentagon Stables The Doge. Blue Yonder will be making his first start of the season, but has trained well and if the chestnut colt is anywhere near as fit as he was early last year, he could easily earn the lions share of the Philadelphia spoils under his 113 pounds impost. Until he went wrong in last summers Jersey Handicap at Garden State Park, Blue Yonder was rated one of the leading three-year-olds. Sea Snack also started in the recent Toboggan Handicap and finished sixth. Prior to that engagement, the clever Christiana miss emerged from winter quarters to give a sterling exhibition of her courage and speed in capturing Pimlico s six furlongs Carroll Handicap in 1:12 for the three-quarters of a mile. Sea Snack received four pounds from Air Patrol in the Toboggan. Her Philadelphia weight is 116. A stakes winner during the 1946 season, The Doge also emerges from winter quarters to participate in the Philadelphia. This swift brown son of Bull Dog has trained splendidly for his seasonal debut and may prove a dangerous competitor under 118 pounds. Rounding out the Philadelphia field are such capable speedsters as Hammer-Lock, Sollure and Prognosis, who will carry the silks of Guy Bedwell; Calumet Stables Pep Well, a stakes winner at Pimlico; H. L. Straus New Moon, who will race as an entry with The Doge; William Helis clever sprinter, Rippey; G. C. Gilbert, Jr.s Scholarship, and Christiana Stables Joshua, who will race as an entry with Sea Snack.
