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Saggy Heads Five-Horse Field for Eastern Shore Equibit Principal Foe as Meet At Havre de Grace Comes to End HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., May 24. Marylands highly-successful 48-day spring season reaches its climatic stage Monday when the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Asosciation concludes its 1947 racing season with a stellar eight-race program featured by the thirty-fifth running of the ,500 Eastern Shore Stakes, a five-furlong event for juveniles. While the Eastern Shore field has drawn only five two-year-olds, it contains a worlds record holder in Mrs. Stanley Sag-ners Saggy, who gets in the race under a 122-pound assignment. Scheduled to oppose the Maryland-owned speed merchant are Ella K. Brysons Equibit, who will also carry 122 pounds; Brookfield Faerms Itsa-bet, 111; Mrs. R. H. Heighes Kashmir, 114, and James E. Ryans Out OThe Sun, 114 pounds. Although he is reputed to have rather weak under-pinnings, Saggy has compiled an enviable record of four victories in as many trips postward. The Swing and Sway Chantress colt, since being purchased for a mere ,700, has been returned victorious in a pair of stakes, the Ral Parr and Aberdeen. Prior to those races, he won a 0,000 claimer in Florida and an overnight allowance event at Bowie. In winning the Aberdeen over the local track during the first meeting, Saggy established a four and one-half furlongs world record of :51. While the time has been disputed, many claiming the race was a full second slower, it nonetheless goes into the record book as an official standard and must be taken as such. In his winning efforts, Saggy has raced for Stanley Sagner, but was recently presented to Mrs. Sagner as a birthday gift. Saggy will have a new rider in the saddle Monday in Albert Snider, leading booter of the meeting. The only other stakes winner in the Eastern Shore field is the Equator Long Bit colt, Equibit. This fellow, a rapid, good-looking chestnut, accounted for the Pimlico Nursery and Havre de Grace Breeders Stakes, as well as a single overnight event. -While Equibit figures to offer Saggy his major contention, he can be conceded no better than an outside chance of upsetting the unbeaten colt. In Saggys worlds record sortie, Equibit brought up the rear, beaten slightly less than four lengths.
