On the Hop

After ephedrine, what? Benzedrine, said the Maryland Racing Commission. Evidence: the saliva test on Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Cosey, winner of the Fairmount Steeplechase Handicap at Pimlico. Result: Mrs. Clark's stable, top steeplechase money-winner of the year, suspended pending hearing--the third ban for doping horses handed out by the Maryland Commission this season.

Meanwhile Elizabeth Arden Graham's trainer, Tom Smith, charged by the Jockey Club of New York with using a 2.6% ephedrine solution (to clear up his horses' heads, he said), appealed his'year's suspension, and was promised a public hearing. Roy Waldron, his successor as Mrs. Graham's trainer, had already proved that Maine Chance Farm horses scarcely needed to be hopped. Last week the stable's star two-year-old, Star Pilot, copped the Pimlico Futurity, adding $26,365 to the $525,505 which the beautician's horses had already won this year. It was the fourth time in five tries that Waldron's Maine Chance horses had won.

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