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Alan Clarke Has Favored Entry in Pimlico Feature Senator Joe, Jeannie C. Compete With Landseair and Four Others PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 6. — Seven fleet sprinters, including four prospective starters in the impending Baltimore Spring Handicap, have been entered in tomorrows featured ,500 Verdant Valley Purse, a sprint of six furlongs for four-year-olds and upward. The stake prospects are Alan T. Clarkes team of Senator Joe and Jeannie C, High Ground Stables Landseair and Mrs. Zelda Cohens War Age. Others entered are Garrett Y. Bookers Mad Hare, Mrs. Chester A. Lyons Penocc and Jack S. Kroeses Rowdy. Senator Joe will be asked to pick up high weight of 123 pounds in his second start of the year. He competed but once at Bowie and tired to be third behind Nimble Fox ! and Brazen Brat in 1:10%. If able to improve off the effort, he should prove difficult to handle. It seems unlikely that he will start, however, unless the track becomes fast for the race. Jeannie C. has failed in two starts this spring and was beaten by Landseair in her last. Landseair failed badly in the Camden Handicap at Garden State, finishing tenth in the 12 -horse field, but turned in a good record during the Bowie meeting, winning his last two starts there after weakening in his debut. His most impressive winning effort was accomplished in 1:11%. War Age hasnt won since Florida but displayed his usual early speed in Bowie competition, racing for the lead in both starts. He finished behind Landseair in his last and it seems unlikely that he will carry his speed for the full distance against tomorrows fleet company. Mad Hare is a hard-hitting Hairan mare who has been freshened a bit since concluding her Florida campaign with a six-furlong victory in 1:10% at Gulfstream Park. Her best race of the winter was a second behind Sunny Dale in the Suwannee River Handicap at the same point. Penocc has not raced thus far in the year but training moves over this track have been impressive. The Occupy gelding won only three starts in 21 appearances last year but failed on only one occasion to earn a portion of the purse. Rowdy is Argentine-bred and has improved in training since arriving from Florida. His stablemate, Again II., showed a smart effort first time out here to take the measure- of Sonic and others at a mile and a sixteenth, which could attract scattered support for Rowdy.
