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Quintet Entered In Pleasant Hills Potpourri, Winner of Three Races at Hialeah, Clashes With G. R. Petersen, Sonic PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 4.— The Maryland Jockey Club, which opened its 21-day spring meeting here this afternoon, will offer the usual eight-race program tomorrow, but will be "dark" on the remaining Tuesdays through the meeting. Middle-distance campaigners are featured tomorrow in the ,000 Pleasant Hills Purse, a mile and one-sixteenth affair which has attracted five useful thoroughbreds. Included in the overnight line-up for the Pleasant Hills are: Samuel A. Pecks Potpourri, Herbert C. Boorses G. R. Petersen, J. S. Kroeses Again II., Jerry Lynchs Sonic and Mrs. E. K. Weils Gloriette. The last three will be making their spring debuts in Maryland, which should make for a wide-open betting affair. Potpourri, a Priam II. colt, hasnt graced the winners circle since the Hialeah meeting, during which he earned three sets of brackets in five starts. He was active at Bowie and was not disgraced while competing at various distances. In his last appearance he was beaten less than three lengths in the race which Brookfield Farms Iswas equaled the seven-furlong track record of 1:23%. Trailer in Lone Bowie Outing G. R. Petersen was a trailer in his lone Bowie appearance but rates consideration off his good three-year-old form in 52. He was a three-time winner and earned in excess of 0,000 while taking down the minor portion of purses in a couple of stakes events. He has always been partial to this track and seems likely to show improvement tomorrow. Sonic is another who has raced exceedingly well over this track in previous years. It was following a splendid effort here last fall that the Lynch establishment purchased the son of Blue Larkspur from the King Ranch. Sonic has not raced since I Florida, where he won a single race in five starts since the turn of the year. He trailed at seven furlongs in his most recent start but prior to that raced victoriously at a mile and a sixteenth, being timed in l:441/5 over the Gulf stream track. Again H. has raced but three times in . this country and has failed to impress, though one fair effort saw him third be- I hind Anchor Man over a heavy track. For-merly trained by Willie Knapp, Again n. is i now conditioned by Belmont Evans and has trained well for that conditioner since arriving in Maryland. Gloriette has little to recommend, having finished unplaced in each of her four starts this year. The Princequillo mare hasnt raced since finishing sixth in a seven-horse race in which Loridale was the winner while being time in 1:10% for six fur- , longs at Gulfstream Park.
