Writer Joe Palmer reported that although Christopher Chenery’s Hill Prince was the 2-year-old division topper with six wins in seven starts, including a record-setting victory in Aqueduct’s Cowdin Stakes, plans were afoot to finish his season in the Champagne Stakes. 

The Cowdin turned out to be his final outing of the year. However the Virginia-bred colt had done enough to take the Daily Racing Form’s year-end honors, his first of three championship seasons. The 1950 Preakness winner and 1950 Horse of the Year was inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame in 1991. 

The Maryland Racing Commission’s proposed 1950 racing dates – 13 meets at 13 tracks (including harness) – were a bone of contention. The four major tracks were expected to operate meetings of 25 days in one stand rather than split seasons, which had been customary for Havre de Grace, Bowie and Pimlico. Only Laurel’s annual fall meeting remained unaffected. 

Among the questions: Would Bowie be willing to give up its place as an early spring meet? How would Havre de Grace deal with competition from New Jersey and Philadelphia? What would the impact be if Pimlico faced direct competition from a Washington, D.C.-area harness track? Added to this were the continuing concerns over conditions at Pimlico, as officials of the Maryland Jockey Club and Laurel remained anxious to close it.

The dispersal of Justin Funkhouser’s O’Sullivan Farms breeding stock, slated Nov. 1 in the Charles Town, W.Va., farm’s sales pavilion, was to be conducted by Fasig-Tipton. Among the offerings were mares by *Sir Gallahad III, Tourbillon and *Blenheim II, mares in foal to First Fiddle, Pavot and By Jimminy, and weanings by *Sir Gallahad III, First Fiddle “and other top stallions.”

With a victory in the Maryland Futurity, Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s Discovery son Foreign Affair was the fourth winner of that contest raised at Vanderbilt’s Sagamore Farm.