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LORD BALTIMORE WINNER Defeats Best TwoYearOIds at Pimlico in Spring Juvenile Stakes BALTIMORE Mil May 10 The Spring Juve ¬ nile Stakes cue of the annual fixtures at Pimlico gave J S Cosdcns Celt colt Lord Baltimore another opportunity of showing his high quality In todays running of the race Lord Baltimore met some of the best twoyearolds here amcnp them Second Thoughts and the McLean crack Dream of Allah Lord Baltimore was liddcn by Bice and setting his opponents a dazzling pace from the start held sway throughout and beat Second Thoughts by a length in a driving finish The winner lan the four and a half furlongs in 53 u neu track record for the distance The previous record was made by Calgary back in 1012 Dream of Allah finished third after a rough race Directly after the start the daughter of Colin was slfarplyr7cnt off and BntWeH was forced to pull up The filly lost four or five lengths by the interference but at the end she was going fastest of all and gaining on the leaders leadersThe The running of the Woodbury Handicap was robbed of much of its interest by a mishap which came directly as the barrier was sprung The field was well lined up when starter Milton released the gate and when the webbing went rip Touch Me Not the heavily backed favorite bolted across the track to the outside fence When Fairbrother got him straight the others were far in advance of him but he sent the big chestnut after them and when he got to running he showed speed enough to warrant the assertion that he would have won easily with an equal start Mythology made a runaway affair of the race reversing his recent defeat by Que cieek when he easily held the Davis racer sife at all stages stagesThe The Linstcad steeplechase which called for hoises to be ridden by riders who had never won a steeplechase was won by Martian with Silas Veitch Jr in the saddle The old gelding led all the way outclassing the others othersF F H Smiths Commc Ci won his third straight victory this spring when he galloped home six lengths in advance of Lucy Kate in the second race raceKimball Kimball Patterson arrived this morning from Louisville with seven of the Xalapa stable horses Including in the shipment were the two Preakness Stakes candidates Leonardo II and Bon Homme All of the horses shipped well and were unloaded in good condition Leonardo II and Bon Homme came out of the Derby in good condition conditionJames James Hewitt is negotiating for the service of jockey Wida and if successful the lad will accom ¬ pany him to New York YorkPREAKNESS PREAKNESS CANDIDATES SHOW UP WELL WELLPolly Polly Ann a likely looking candidate for the Oaks and Jeg an eligible for the Preaknes showed up wel in their races here on Monday Both aie locally owned horses the former racing in the colors of Spaulding Jenkins and the latter in the colors of J E Griffith Jeg ran the mile and a sixteenth in his race in 145 Vi which equaled the track record for the distance True lie did not have much weight up and it remains to be seen what lie will do when he is asked to shoulder 125 pounds which is his allotment in the Preakness PreaknessJockey Jockey Lancaster who has been transferred over to the Seagram stable for the Canada racing sea pon will leave for Toronto at the conclusion of the Pimlico meeting meetingNo No word has been received by the management from James Bowe and some doubt is expressed when he will ship the Harry Payne Whitney pair Prudery and Tryster from Louisville to Pimlico to fill their engagement in the Preakness PreaknessW W J Salmons Careful is on her way from Ken ¬ tucky and will probably be a starter in the Oaks on Thursday ThursdaySome Some difficulty is being experienced in obtaining horses for the coming meeting to be held at Hagerstown Liberal purses have been offered by the club and Wash Norvell who is acting as rac ¬ ing secretary is at Pimlico every afternoon ar ¬ ranging with horsemen to ship there thereJ J B Campbell racing secretary at Fort Erie distributed among the horsemen the stake blanks for that meeting the conditions of the Canadian Derby having changed this year and call for three yearolds bred in Canada The Niagara Jockey Club is adding 75CO to this stake which will make it the richest event for Canadian breds run on the Canadian circuit outside of the Kings Plat at Woodbine 7500 is also added to the Domin ¬ ion Handicap Entries to these events close May 2G 2GEqual Equal Bights winner of the first race was boosted fiioni 1000 to 2S05 by Sam Louis and retained retainedThe The Pimlico management announced that on Saturday and Monday next the steeplechase con ¬ tests would be run as the first races The change was made with the idea of avoiding possible acci ¬ dents to patrons many of whom view the racing from the infield infieldThe The proposed match race between the twoyear olds Big Heart and Elemental did not materialize The race was to have been run this morning but it is understood that it has been declared off offA A special train will leave Camden Station Thurs ¬ day morning at 9 oclock to convey horsemen to Laurel where they will be met by motors which will bring them to the Boss stuck farm where a sale of brood mares and sucklings will be held The returning train will arrive in Baltimore ut
