The Washington herald., 1915-09-05
FALL RACES TO
open SHORTLY
Sport Of Kings Will Get Under
Way a Week from Thursday
at Havre de Grace.
BIG MEETING AT LAUREL

The Maryland season of racing will be-
gin at the Havre de Grace course. thirty
miles from Baltimore. a week from next
Thursday. and for sixty-six racing days
thereafter the sport will flourish here
abouts.
The meeting at Havre de Grace will
continue until October l, to be followed
by a twenty-six days meeting at Laurel
Park, between here and Baltimore. after
which the thoroughbreds will move over
to Pimlico The season will wind up
with a fourteen days meeting at the new
course Of the Southern Maryland Agricul-
tural Association at Prince George Park,
near Bowie.
Inasmuch as there will be no other
racing in the East outside of Maryland.
The meetings to be provided for WASH
Ineton and Baltimore horse lovers will
assume much Importance. They will con-
elude the racing season in the North for
the year 1915, which has been a notable
one in thoroughbred racing. The sport
has apparently been firmly established
in New York. The one striking feature
has been the scarcity of good horses in
the older division. The juvenile ranks
have been REINFORCED by new blood due
in a large measure to the discontinuance
of racing in Europe. 1t was a subject Of
remark that the 2-year-olds this sea-
son were OF higher class than in several
years. and there are more youngsters
that approach stake class than in a long
lime.
or all the meetings of the Maryland
season. the session at Laurel Park will
be the most important. for not only will
I be the longest. occupying the entire
month of October. but the nominations
20 the seventeen stakes disclose a quality
Of entrants far above the average and of
a class that will compare with any that
nave been seen in races in New York this
year.
The MARYLAND State Fair Association
has added s25,oO0 to the stakes. the rich
est being the Washington Handicap. with
1850 in added money. This race last
year was captured by Andrew Miller
great horse. Roamer. and the horse is
again named for the race. Besides
Roamer. there will be Harry Payne Whit
ney's Borrow, winner of the Municipal
Handicap: Sam Jackson. Stromboli and
other good ones.
There will be no steeplechasing at
Laurel Park this year. and the jumpers
will have to be content with the four
teen days at Havre de Grace and the
twelve days at Pimlico. as Bowie also
will not be in position this fall to have
steeplechases. Col. VIM. who directs
the fortunes of the Laurel course, ex-
planned that the scarcity of jumpers this
season was the reason for abandoning
the jumping races at Laurel. The jumps
on the oil course have beun removed and
the infield has been sown with grass.
Many other improvements have been
made. and the October meeting will make
4 special appeal to Washington and Balti-
more society. as IL has ever since the
handsome new clubhouse was built last
year. II is one of the striking features
Of the Laurel season that society patron
ICES the sport there more generally than
at any other track Besides. the accessi-
5ility of Laurel is one of its great ad-
vantages. and motorists have a fine
boulevard to travel over the course
Col VIM and his assistant Harry F.
Breyvogle. will be at Laurel during the
month of September preparing for the
meeting. AS at Pimlico. the mutuel ma
:hines will be employed as the system Of
wagering, while layers OF odds will hold
forth at Havre de Grace and Bowie. Ad-
ditional machines have been ordered for
The Laurel course. and this year there
will be twenty-seven in operation.