Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-11
Dixie, Oaks, Nursery
Will Add 10 Banner
Day al PimIico

one of the richest on the national
calendar, with more than 100000 to
be distributed in purses, it was dis
closed today as Marylands State
Racing Commission approved an IL
day joint spring meeting of the Old
Line States four major tracks at
the historic course.
Maryland will be one of the first
tracks to resume racing, opening
next Wednesday, but the ponies will
be running tomorrow at Sportsman S
Park, near Chicago, and at Maria
gansett, r. I. New York, opening
May 81 at Jamaica, will have the
longest sustained program, extending
through the summer into mid-No-
vember.
Pimlico will operate 10 days, fea-
turing nine overnight handicaps
bearing names of spring stakes usu-
ally conducted at Bowie, Havre De
Grace and Pimlico. The week fol-
lowing the Kentucky Derby it will
reopen one day to stage the Freak
ness.
From Louisville Col. Matt VIM,
executive director of Churchill
Downs and chief prop man for the
Derby, will announce the date of
the bluegrass classic, along with
the entries, tomorrow. Most OBJ
servers believe 1t will be June 2,
putting the Preakness on June 9.
Three other big stakes are sched-
uled in addition to the $4,000
added Preakness on Pimlico's big
day. Second in Importance is the
100000 added Dixie Handicap, fol-
lowed by the ,000-added Pimlico
Oaks and the $500 Pimlico
Nursery.
Mahoney New Maryland Head.
Three $4,000 stakes, five worth
$500, and one at $1,000 are sched-
uled during the Today meeting.
Overnight entries will be accepted
for these races as there was not
sufficient time to close the lists in
the usual manner.
In addition to approving racing
dates, Gov. Herbert O'Conor an
nounced George P. Mahoney would
succeed Frank Small, jr., as chair
man of the State Racing Commits
sion. Business duties would pre-
vent him from continuing as chair
man. Small said.
Dates for Maryland's four i2-mile
tracks will be considered at an
nf
Monday or Tuesday. Hagerstown
has requested Today session be-
ginning July 10, and Cumberland is
expected to ask for 10 days, starting
August 7. Bel Air and Marlboro
have given no indication of their
plans.
Meanwhile, Bryan Field, general
manager of Delaware Park, an
nounced that application for its ira
ditional May % to July period had
been approved by the Delaware
State commission.
CALIFORNIA; commission was to
meet today to consider applications
from Santa Anita and Bay Meadows
for immediate resumption of racing.
Stakes Are Plentiful.
The Baltimore Spring Handicap
a 6-furlong test for 3-year-olds and
upward, valued at $500, will usher
in the Pimlico meeting. The $500
Rowe Memorial Handicap is sched-
uled May 10 and the $500 Cuttings
Handicap May 81. The Carroll
Handicap for fillies and mares, an
other $500 stake, will be run the
next day.
The $5,000-ad Raj Parr Stakes
for 2-year-olds is scheduled May %,
with the $4,000 Survivor Stakes
listed the following day. The Jervis
Spencer Steeplechase, $4,000 race,
and the Philadelphia Handicap, an
other $4,000 purse, are listed for
May Is and 26, respectively.
Opening at Jamaica May 81 and
running until June 2, racing in New
York then moves to Belmont from
June 4 to % and to Aqueduct from
June Is to July IA. From there the
thoroughbreds switch to Empire City,
July Is to August 4; Saratoga will be
the host course August 6 to Septem-
Der /. while two-week meeting will
be held at Aqueduct from September
3 to Is. Belmont will be the scene
of operations from September II
through October 3.
The horses return to Jamaica Oc-
tober to 20 and wind up at Empire
City, beginning October %. The
United Hunts, scheduled November
5 and 6, and usually held at Belmont,
ordinarily would end the season, but
there is possibility the five tracks
will conduct another joint Victory
meeting between November and Is,
last date on which racing may be
conducted in New York State by law.
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