The Washington times., 1916-04-16
.HAVRE De GRACE IS
TO GIVE GOOD SPORT
Prospect Of Fair Weather and
Fast Track Holds Fine
Outlook.

Havrs de Grace offers a fine racing
program for It's patrons the coming
week, and with prospects Of fair wealth
er arl fast track sport OF q high
order may be expected.
The stake events for the week are
Monday. the Penn Selling Stakes. with
81 200 guaranteed; Tuesday. the German
town selling Stakes. with a 1900 guar
antee: Wednesday. the Wilmington
Stakes, with 81 900 added; Thursday. the
Chester Selling stakes. with $1,000 guar
anteed; Friday. the Lassie Stakes. with
u,Oco acded. and Saturday, the Phila-
delphia Handicap. with $500 added
Each OF these stakes has fine list Of
entries.
The Havre dc Grace people can have
no COMPLAINTS about their opening day.
A big crowd from Baltimore and Wash
ington combined with a strong conting-
ent from Wilmington and Philadelphia
was on hand. and the accommodate
OF the plant were tested to their full
est.
The mutuels were being tried out for
the first time at the track. but they
received rousing patronage, and any
| doubts the management may have had
ABOUT their success were dispeiied be-
fore thH afternoon was half over. Tho
| receipts OF the association from the
machines were probably double what
tney would have been with the books.
The program was a trif1e thin. but
| nearly everv event was fought out to
| trc bitter end. and the people were as
wei pleased as IL stake horses were
| engaged The star event of the after
noon was: OF course. the $500 Har-
| ford Handicap. garnered by that cum
ming Scot. Billy Oliver. with his old
bread-winner. Kewessa. This one had
been kert well under cover. and the
public generally had been led to be-
| lieve ttst he was not quite on edge
| In fact the astute Scot went to aome
| pains to give out the impression that
| kewessa needed n race The conse-
aucnce was that your Uncle Rilly got
4ia TO j against 7-to-5 shot. The race
| ives corncracker. and Kewessa only
| beat the favorite. Flittergold, a whisker
in the last stride.
Col. Raj PARIS The Masouerader was
horse was Gelded last fall and had
shown such Improvement In his work
this spring that his trainer hoped he
might come i, back sUsk, to sowe:hinE ne Of his
uuerader was OF I'm front and sot n
sizzling pace until we'll down the stretch
where he weakened and was beaten
himself sprinter OF no mean ability.
The Masouerader should improve of
this race. and in his next out he should
carry his speed further.
II. G. Bedwells name was rather
prominent on the program. He had an
entry in every event save the two-year-
old race. The Bedwell colors. however.
were carried to the front In but one
race-the ffth-won by Borax at the
juicy odds of Is to /. the longest-a shot
winner OF the day.
Ida Claire. the winner of the Inst race.
may we'll be called the mare without a
| home. At Bowie A. c. Parretto took
her out OF a selling race from Billy
Garth. and yesterday. after the hlly
had won Emil Herr boosted her to 500
and took her to his stable. Ida Claire
ran like a real good one. and seemed
to he a bargain Mt $500. The runner-un
In the race was the seventeen-year-old
Budweiser. who displayed all the flash
and fire of a two-year-old and hung on
to the very end.
Eddie Mcbride has given the second
call on Jockey Parrington's services Ia
j. o. Talbot during the Maryland sea
son. A. b. Bressler has sold the con-
tract on Jockey Weathersby's services.
Racing Secretary Joseph McLennorI
was at the track getting entries for the
Preakness at Pimllco. Mr.. McLennor
said that all the three-vear-olds OF any
account In the East had entered.