Evening star., 1938-04-10
ALL PACE IS MADE
BYCOMP PTON COLT
Moon Side Is Beaten 2I2
Lengths-Irish Moon Is
Montpelier Victor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOWIE, Md, April 9.-Never headed
or threatened at any stage, A. c..
Compton's Sun Egret. Kentucky Derby
candidate, splashed through the mud
here today to win the first running
OF the Bowie spring handicap
Spotting his rivals weight theoreti-
cally on a Weight-for-a basis, the
only 3-year-old in the l mile and 70
yards test, finished two and one-half
lengths in advance of Cleveland Put
MANS Moon Side and another length
and half ahead of W., L. Brann's
Chellephen.
Coming off his 6-furlong triumph in
the Rowe Memorial Handicap a week
ago, Sun Egret had strong backing
in the crowd of 10000 and paid a
mere $3.50 mutuel. The Virginia bred
son of Sun Briar was clocked in
1:4825.
Easy for Sun Egret.
Sun Egret, which Trainer H. G.
Guy Bedwell says will win the Derby
If that race is run in the mud, gave his
hackers no anxious moments. Jockey
AL Shelhamer sent the colt to the
front almost with the echo of the
starting bell and then saved ground
at the turns to be looking back through
the stretch run.
Moon Side, second three times in
New Orleans racing last winter, had
the role of chief chaser of the favorite
Jockey Gilbert did his best to try to
get his mount to the front of Sun
Egret in the early running, but to no
avail. Moon Side, however, proved
best of the others.
The race was run over as muddy
racing strip as ever has been seen
here. However, rains of the past four
days gave way to strong west wind
and bright sun.
Sun Egret, in winning his sixth
race in eight starts this year, added
S3,250 to bring his earnings to s28,-
IT'S. Sun Egret was the seventh VIM
ner of the meeting and the twenty
sixth of the year to be saddled by
Trainer Bedwell
liiSH NlOOH SCOTcS ASd1H.
Mrs. E. A. SeXton's Irish Moon
made it two straight victories at this
track by taking the decision in the
Montpelier Manor Handicap, sixth
event on the program Irish Moon
came between horses in the stretch
to win under punishment from Jockey
Charley Corbett. Brilliant Play, virtu-
ally left at the post, was second,
beaten three quarters of length,
with Warlaine, a Kentucky Derby
hope, third in the field of seven.
Irish Moon ran the mile and 70
yards in Isl 25 and brought scat
tered backing an $3.50 mutuel.
High Blame, owned by William
zelgler of Middleburg, Va, opened
the program by racing a half mile
in 49 3 5 seconds to defeat seven
opponents.
The Gridiron Club Handicap, three
quarter-mile secondary feature, saw
Corbett, leading winning rider at the
meeting, register his tenth victory
when he drove the Millsdale Stables
Winning Chance. favorite, home ahead
OF five opponents.
Blanket Finish by Three.
Corbett had to exhibit a grand
brand of booting to get home by a
nose over Miss B. j. Christmas
Summed, with W. c. Winfrey's Chief
Cherokee similar distance away
in third place. The three money
horses raced as a team through the
homestretch with Corbett's superior
riding deciding the top award.
The three-quarters of the third saw
c. j. Kings Sachem. who raced
poorly in his last two starts, come to
life and win easily from four op-
ponents. He paid $1430.