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Maryland Notes PIMUCO, Baltimore, Md., May 11. The annual yearling show of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association will be held at Pimlico on Wednesday, May 18 and that evening, in the members club, the association will hold its annual dinner and business meeting, including election of directors and officers. One of the new conditions of the Dixie Handicap, scheduled May 21, is the tracks right to transfer the event to the main course -if bad weather has made the turf course unsafe. Jockey Nick Shuk, always a favorite with Pimlico patrons, will be missing from the local scene Saturday. He will go to Garden State Park to handle Montpeliers Saratoga in the Jersey Stakes and will be on that colt in the Preakness on May 28. Pimlicos opening was a promising one. Attendance of 10,103 bettered the 9,434 on hand a year ago for the initial program although on that occasion the opening was on a Friday. This is an increase of 7 per cent. In wagering, the handle of 48,999 topped the first day total of a year ago by 8 per cent. In 1954 the spring session opened with 91,919. The betting also was higher than that on the first Tuesday of last spring when the play reached a total of 38,348. Form was certainly upheld in Tuesdays sixth event, a mile and a sixteenth on the turf. At the finish, the first three horses, in order, were Auburn Farms Old Glen-dale, Samuel A. Pecks Potpourri and Shoe String Stables Baroda Boy. Ten days previously this trio hooked up in a duel on the grass at Laurel and the order of finish was Old Glendale, Potpourri and Baroda Boy. On that occasion Old Glendale set a new course record for a mile and a sixteenth on Laurels turf course, the time being 1:42%. Yesterday the same four-year-old colt set a new record for that distance on Pimlicos grass of 1:43%, beating the old mark of 1:45% set by Go A Bit last November 17. Trainer Judy Johnson, who handles Auburn Farms Old Glendale, doubtless is regretting the fact that the four-year-old son of Cassis — Thirsty was not named for the Dixie Handicap on May 21. The way Old Glendale has taken to turf racing, hed be a real threat in the 5,000 Dixie, to be run on the grass for the first time. Pimlico officials will watch with great interest the result of Saturdays Oakland Handicap at Golden Gate Fields near San Francisco. A. J. Crevolins Golden Land, winner of the Golden Gate Derby, is scheduled to run in that race. According to trainer Willie Molter, if Golden Land wins the handicap,, he probably will be made a supplementary nomination to the Preakness at a cost of ,500.
