The Maryland Racing Commission concurred with the management of the Maryland Jockey Club in a proposal to cease racing at Pimlico after the season and transfe the dates to Laurel.
The consensus was Laurel was more modern, offered an equally accessible location and stood on a larger plot of acerage, with expansion possible.
- Ella K. Bryson of Kingsville, Md. had 2-year-old fillies making headlines in Florida. Homebred Make Swing set a world record of 34.40 for 3 furlongs at Hialeah, and recorded her fourth win of the year (by March 1) in the Hialeah Juvenile Stakes. Growing Up carried the Bryson silks when she won Jan. 19. On the strength of that effort, she was sold to W.E. Leach and came back to finish second to Make Swing in the latter's second start.
Make Swing was a daughter of Swing and Sway, who stood at Janon Fisher's The Caves in Eccleston, Md.
Make Swing was stakes-placed later in the year but finished off the board in her five starts at 3 and 4. She and her three producing daughters had a total of 20 foals, all starters, 19 winners.
Bred in Virginia by David Novick, Growing Up sold as a yearing at Saratoga to G. Ray Bryson, Ella's husband, for $1,400. She won a stakes at 2, equlaing the 4-furlong track record at Gulfstream Park in the Betsy Ross Stakes, and won Jamaica's Correction Handicap at 4. Her three winners from five foals included stakes winner Gallant Lad.
- Pat Judge visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Edgar's Woodlawn Farm and record: [They] have built up their racing and breeding stock slowly, with the emphasis on quality rather than quantity. They have seven broodmares at the present time and all of them are from excellent racing and producing families. The latest addition to the group is Penny Dare, a homebred daughter of *Challenger II and the stakes winner Penncote. Penny Dare was a winner in the Edgar colors but was injured last year while in training at Laurel and has been retired from racing. She will enter the stud this spring."
Bred that spring to *Princequillo, Penny Dare produced future stakes winner Prince Dare. He was her only foal, as she died from colic five months later at age 5. Counted among desendants of Prince Dare's daughter Jackie Dare are Horse of the Year Favorite Trick, Belmont Stakes-G1 winner Tiz the Law and millionaire sprinter Favorite Tale.
- Editor Humphrey Finney was all over the map in mid-January - he flew to Miami Jan. 15, visited Hialeah, flew back to Maryland two days later, was in New York Jan. 20 to sell a Thoroughbred filly at the Plaza Hotel to benefit the Ellin Speyer Memorial Hospital for Animals and two days later was at Hollywood Park to examine 50 of Louis B. Mayer's 2-year-olds to be sold that week. When he left for home, snow necessitated train travel - going through Arizona, 50 inches of snow was on the ground. On Jan. 28, he noted: "Got home this morning, three nights and two days from Los Angeles, which is good going."
