After trying for years to organize widely scattered breeding interests, the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders’ Association was incorporated. Considerable advice and help in getting past the initial stages was furnished by the directors of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. 

In the first few months of the PHBA’s existence, membership grew rapidly. Officers were Arthur E. Pew Jr. of Bryn Mawr, president; Henry Cadwalader of Ambler, vice-president; and David Dallas Odell, of Malvern, secretary and treasurer. A.A. Craven was the assistant secretary.

The complete dispersal of Walter P. Chrysler’s North Wales Stud was underway, as Humphrey Finney noted in his Editor’s Saddle-Bag: “June 2. Today we are at Belmont Park, to aid in the dispersal sale of the racehorses from Walter Chrysler’s stable, as well as a group of other Thoroughbreds. Prices have been remark- ably good, with Larry MacPhail adding three well-bred fillies to his stable, they being destined for the stud before long.” The North Wales yearlings and breeding stock (more than 100 in all) were to ship from the Warrenton, Va., farm to be sold at Saratoga in August.

Finney’s book Stud Farm Diary, initially released by The Blood-Horse in 1936, was re-released by Blue Ridge Press of Berryville, Va. It was a compilation of columns Finney wrote for The Blood-Horse titled “A Stud Farm Diary” under the pen name “Nothing Venture” about his managing of Holly Beach Farm Stud in Maryland. 

The majority of Maryland horsemen were competing in Delaware and New Jersey, with a scattering in Detroit and New York, while a few were in New England. Among regional standouts was Harry La Montagne’s “big husky Conniver” who hadn’t been running well that spring, but rallied late to take the Butler Handicap over Palestinian at the Empire-at-Jamaica meet.

Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s Sagamore Farm-bred Loser Weeper accounted for three of four starts, including the Metropolitan (at Belmont) and Valley Forge (Garden State) handicaps.