New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-26
rIayreDeGrace
Races Promise
Keenest Sport
Attractive Card Arranged
for First Autumn Meet
ing in Maryland

-,,RE DE GRACE, Nd, Aug. Is
-. Hartford Agricultural and Breeders
,.,,.f,,ion will inaugurate Marylands
,,,g,n racing season for 1917 on Sep
..r,hsr II at the picturesque and per-
49, sppointed Havre de Grace track
- lies lust south Of the point where
-. epsouehanna River mingles its wa
-, with the waters Of Chesapeake Bay
"a about midway between Wilmington
srd Baltimore, but within an hours
ride Of Philadelphia.
The meeting will be Of seventeen
DAYS duration, winding up on Septem-
bs, %. when the great Eastern racing
cables and their army Of followers wlll
,aks their way further south to Laurel
II will be marked by the running Of ten
.t,kes of sufficient value to bring 70
MARYLAND the most representative OF
American and Canadian horsemen and
,Ss swiftest racers, in spite Of the
competition Of Belmont Park and Aque-
duet. nj C.uLo
The dates selected for the running Of
,hs ten attractive stakes are as follows;
ssptember II. Old Bay Handicap Tor
,hree.vear.olds and over, one mile and
ssrsntv wards; September IL, trenton
SAILING Stakes, for two-year-olds, hve
srd half furlongs; September To-
pnrsl Blue Handicap, for three-year-
ai5s one mile and seventy yards; sep
t.nber Is. Princeton Selling Stakes, Tor
,Sree-vear-olds and over, six turlongs;
sen.ember 20, Eastern Shore Handicap,
10. two-year-olds. five and half iur-
lonrs; September p, ChesteTbrooK
Tsndicap. for three-year-olds and over
nne mile and a sixteenth; September
Ok Cecil Selling Stakes, for three-year-
oIds and over. one mile and seventy
vards. September 90, Fox Hills Handl-
can for three-year- and over, SIX
fpriongs; September 81, Erdenhelm
gandicap. for two-year olds, five and a
half furiongs; September 20, Hsvre de
Grace Handicap, for three-year-olds
and over. one mile and a furlong.
Four hundred nominations were maze
tor these stakes when they closed ear
Tsr in the month, the Old Bay Handl-
rsn having attracted thirty-hve, the
trenton forty-nine, the Royal Blue
tbirty-fve. the Princeton forty-nine,
the Eastern Shore forty-two, the Ches-
tsrbrook thirty-siX, the Cecil nifty, the
Fox Hills thirty-one, the Erdenhelm
forty-ive and the Havre de Trace
twenty-cight.
Prominent among the nominators
we're James Corrigan, who has bought
out the interest in the WicAiffe Stable
AZ his partner, Price Mckinney, OF
Cleveland; Harry Payne Whitney, pro
prietor of the Brookdale Stud; Richard
Wilson, president of the Saratoga
association: Wilfrid Viau, of Montreal,
ovner of the champion three-year-o
0-ar Khayyam; Willis Sharpe kilmer,
erner Of Sunbriar. winner OF the sara.
bga Special; Clifford A. Cochran, OF
New York: Richard F. Carman ana
Richard F. Carman, pr, proprietor OF
the new Carmandale Stock arm, WnleA
is in Montgomery County, Md, jus:
outside Washington; J. S. Tyree, Of
Washington; former Congressman
George ". Loft, owner o. the brilliant
two-year-old winner Papp.
other nominators are J. K. L. Ross.
Of Montreal; Samuel D. Riddle, one Of
the leading sportsmen Of Pennsylvania;
Thomas Clyde, one Of the most promi-
nent figures in Maryland racing; Will
IAN ". Jeffords. Of Philadelphia;
George Smith, proprietor of the Brigh-
ton Stable, and his brother, Theodore
Smith; Archibald Barklie, of Philadel-
phia; Grant Hugh Browne, Emil Herr.
Oscar Lewisohn, G.. a. Muller, Schuyler
l. Parsons, president Of the Coney ISL
snd Jockey Club; II. K. Knapp and An
drew Miller, stewards of the Jockey
Club; Captain W. J. Press, Of Toronto;
Joseph Marrone, J. r. Claver, William
oliver, W. r. Mizell, James F. John
son, proprietor of the Quincy Stables;
H. G. Bedwell, W. J. Starr and Henry
Hsttsrson, proprietor of the Mirasol
Stable.
Omar Khayysm TO Run
Among the three-year-olds that have
ken winning distinction, East and
Vest, 70 be seen under colors in the
nsrss of the meeting are Omar Khay-
um. winner Of the Kentucky and
Brooklyn derbies, the Prospect Handi-
cop and the Kenner and 1ravers stakes;
his stable companion, the $4,000
EeEty Hogan; Rickety, winner of the
Empire City Derby; Campfire, the To-
began Handicap winner, and mis- light
footed stable mates. Straigh forward
and Corn Tassel, King Herod, which
performed brilliantly at Havre de
Grace in the spring: Manister Toi,
Hysnnis, Warsaw. Waukeag, Torch
bearer, Cadillac. Priscilla Mullens, Ed
Roche. Royal Quest, Barry shannon,
Nanokin, Fairy Wand, Queen Of the
Water. Iron Cross. Marie Miller,
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