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Wa I mac Farms Billings Joins Wells Unit at Washington WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, III., May 26.— Billings, voted second best three-year-old of 1948, arrived here today from Churchill. Downs and joined the menage Howard Wells has quartered at this track. The four-year-old son of Mahmoud— Native Girl, owned and bred by Robert W. McHvain, owner of Walmac Farm, at Lexington, Ky., is returning for another campaign to the sector where he accounted for five stakes races last season and amassed the greatest percentage of last years total earnings of 19,600. Billings chief feat of the 1948 season was winning the Hawthorne Gold Cup as well as three other Hawthorne stakes. He accounted for this fixture less than a month after being returned to competition following a period of idleness from June through early September. Billings was placed on the shelf in mid-summer after appearing in an allowance test at Arlington Park. He f ailed to race to the expectation of his connections in this outing.
