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■ m m ■■■■■■■■■■■ i i | aH Mr? JJKm. W CARY C. BOSHAMER— President of the Maryland Jockey Club whose meeting at Pimlico will operate for the first time today under his regime. Maryland Scene Shifts to Pimlico Boshamer Group j Holds First Meet Preakness, Dixie, Black-Eyed Susan Big Events of Session; Sprinters in Todays Feature By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent! PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 2.— The Maryland Jockey Club, under a new management headed by Cary C. Boshamer, South Carolina industrialist, and including Ben and Herman Cohen, Louis Pondfield and M. H. Lesnick, will launch its 21 -day spring season on Monday. Highlight of the session will, of course, be the 77th running of the 00,000 added Preakness, second jewel of the "Triple Crown" for three-year-olds, being preceded by the Kentucky Derby and followed by the Belmont Stakes. Every effort has been made by Boshamer and his associates to have the meeting under way in winging fashion, with four added money events on the calendar. They are, aside from the Preakness, the 5,000 Dixie Handicap, the 5,000 Baltimore Spring Handicap and the 0,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. Pimlicos meeting will run in conflict with Garden State Park except on Mondays and the final portion of the meeting, Tuesdays, May 12, 19 and 26 will be "dark." The final two days of the meeting, May 29 and 30, will find the Baltimore course conflicting with both Garden State and Delaware Park. Despite these various conflicts, Pimlico officials are confident of a successful meeting. Rogers Purse Featured Mondays program is featured by the ,500 Rogers Purse, a six-furlong event for four-year-olds and upward. The field is headed by Bobanet Stables Brazen Brat, Danny Sheas Sweet Vermouth and Walter A. Edgars Jack the Great. Rounding out the group of eight will be Radical, Avacado, My Nell, Gloriette and Lord Admiralty. The last two will race coupled as the Mrs. E. K. Weil entry. The mile and three-sixteenths Preakness, as usual, will attract the "big" horses of the Derby field, as well as some fresh talent. Should a non-Preakness eligible come up with a sparkling effort in the Derby, he can be made a supplemental nominee to the Preakness on or before May 9 by payment of a ,500 fee. Non-Derby starters who are eligible for the Preakness, include such well-regarded sophomores as Brook-field Farms Isasmoothie, Trio Stables Laf-lango, Brookmeade Stables County Clare, Louis B. Mayers Blaze: Ben Whitakers Tahitian King and Rokeby Stables Magic Lamp. The famed Dixie Handicap, which will be run at the mile and a furlong distance this year instead of the usual Preakness distance, seems likely to attract a good field of thoroughbreds. Top eligibles include Charfran Stables Crafty Admiral, a scheduled starter in todays Gallant Fox Handicap, and Hampton Stables Alerted, winner of the 1952 Dixie. Other leading prospects are Greentree Stables One Hitter, Mrs. Esther duPont Weirs Royal Vale, Alfred G. Vanderbilts First Glance, Max Kahlbaums Jampol, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Post Card and Yildiz and Hasty House Farms Oil Capitol. Bubbley Expected to Start The Black-Eyed Susan, closing-day attraction, is expected to attract Calumet Farms Kentucky Oaks winner, Bubbley, as well as Mrs. Ada L. Rices Cerise Reine. Other leading sophomore fillies pointing for the mile and a sixteenth event are Brookfield Farms* Is Proud, Brookmeade Stables Tritium. Arnold Hangers Rica Rosie, Howell Jacksons Ballerina, W. Schwabs Milspal and Mrs. Ben Whitakers Grecian Queen. Racing secretary Fred Colwill, general manager John D. Jackson and director of racing Fred Burton have scouted various racing centers for fresh talent for the Pimlico meeting and numerous stables which were not represented at Bowie are expected to see action before the Maryland season comes to a close. Under Jacksons guidance, a program of improvements has been started, the major noticeable change being a glass-enclosed dining terrace in the old clubhouse, as well as two new mutuel divisions in that building. For the first time in many years, the infield will be closed to the public. This is due to the fact that the grading and planting of grass has been completed on the new turf course, which figures prominently in plans for future years.
