New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
HavreDe Grace
Meeting Offers
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s Rich Stakes
Hartford Association Plan
ming Seven Races Daily,
With Good Overnight
Purses


Flight stakes will be renewed in
the spring meeting at Havre de Grace
by tho Hartford Agricultural and
Breeders Association. These stakes are
the Hartford Handicap, $l,500 added,
five and a half furlong; Philadelphia
Handicap $500 added, six furlongs;
Susquehanna Handicap, $1,000 added,
one-mile and seventy yards; Penn
Selling Stakes, $1,000 added, five and a
half furlongs, and Chester Selling
Stakes. 81 900 added, six furlongs. for
three-year- olds and over; Wilmington
Stakes. $1,000 added, five and half
furlongs, for three-ycar-olds exclusive
". and the Aberdeen and Perryville
Selling Stakes, each of $1,000 added and
each at four furlongs and halt, tor
-year-olds.
These stakes will close on February
ii, and Secretary Frederick Rehberger
will receive the nominations at o9'
Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nav Announce New Stake
The officers of the Hartford Associa-
tjon have decided to offer seven races
each day and the overnight purses VIII
he s7o0 and $500 added money affairs
T. Is not improbable also that new
stake NAV be announced later, prob
shlv 8 Preakness preliminary, for the
lravre de Grace track will be the tram
ing place this coming spring for most
of the Eastern candidates for the great
three vear-old special which will be
rmn at Pimlico in MAY, TO the starting
fees of which the Maryland Jockey
Club has decided to add $4,000. max
inp il the richest of Eastern specials
for horses three years old.
The Uavre de Grace session this
sprinr will. as in the past, follow the
Southern Maryland Agricultural Asso-
ciation's meeting Of fifteen days, pc
ginning April /. which will usher IN
the Eastern racing season at frlnGI
Georges Park. Bowie. The horses VII
be at Havre de Grace fourteen or i'll
+een davs. The Jockey Club of New
York. under whose 2gis Maryland rae
inr is conducted, has not yet an
nonnced the Eastern date schedule 1or
Indications point to brilliant ses-
sion Of sport at Havre de Grace, whlcn
is situated midway between Baltimore
and PHILADELPHIA, and within an hours
ride hv motor car Of Wilmington, Del,
en- the main lines Of the Baltimore q
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads.
There are already in Maryland and the
District of Columbia upward of 500
thorcughbreds. Nest of them are at
Benning. Bowie. the Gentleman's Driv-
ing Park and Pimlico. But the strong
stable of J. K. l.. Ross, OF Montreal,
which represents an investment OF up
wards of a quarter Of million dol
lars, is at Laurel; the ESTABLISHMENTS
of Thomas Clyde, Samuel d. Riddle
and Mrs. Walter NJ. Jeffords, OF Phil
adelphia, are in private quarters on the
Eastern shore of Maryiand, and the
establishments Of Alfred Hannen Nor
ris. of New York, and Robert J. Wal
den. of Maryland, are at Bowling
Brook farm, near Middleburg.
The stables at Benning belong to
Edward B. Mclean, Samuel Ross, Will
frid Viau, John Lumsden, Richard F
Carman, Joseph E. Davis, Captain Raj
Parr, Captain Joseph Z. Davis, Captain
Charles X. Rockwell, j. S. Tyree, Will
lam Garth. w. L. Maupin, Harry Payne
Whitney. and one or two other we'll
known Eastern horsemen. James Nc
Clelland, kimball Patterson, J. S,
Owenby, Grant Hugh Browne and sew
eral others are at Bowie, and II. R. A.
West, Edward Mcbride, William Jen-
nings, julie Carson, and three or four
others are at Pimlico and the Gentle
mems Driving Park.
Will Attract Best Horses
In addition to furnishing racing folk
of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more with a fine article of three-year-
old racing, Havre de Grace will at
tract this year the best horses of the
matured division. and many first rate
eeplechasers. For there is no better
race course anywhere for spring rae
ing, and both matured and fiat runners
and steeplechasers will be readied up
,here for the $4,000 Pimlico Spring
Handicap, the Green Spring Valley
Steeplechase, another event Of $4,000
this season. and the first class races
for horeses of various ages ant
classes that will be decided on New
York tracks later on.
Among the famous thoroughbred
now in Maryland and in the District
of Columbia that will move over to
Havre de Grace as soon as winter
breaks are the year-olds Rusty
Hogan, Omar Khayyam and Cudgel, all
three of which will try this year for
the Pimlico Autumn Handicap
He touSuueHduH2 ana fnll-
adelphia handicaps probably will at
tract all these horses, also many Of the
smartest campaigners Of the stables
Of August Belmont, Joseph +. Widener
Richard 7. Wilson, George D. Wdener
Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Hal X Knapp
James Butler. George L. Loft, John
Sanford, Clifford A. Cochran, A. X
Macomber, Norton L. Schwartz, Charles
Schwartz. L. r. Bradley, II. c. Apple
gate, Major +. B. Cassatt, T. Ambrose
Clark, w. R. Coe, Emil Herr, G. 4. Gle
ment, F. D. Weis, Edward f. Whitney
r. H. McCartcr Potter, A. A. Reilly
John II. Rosseter Samuel c. Hildreth
and David J. Leary.
Few Of the great Eastern stables will
attempt to ship west for the Kentucky
meetings this coming spring. The ext
gencies of war have already made rail
way transportation serious problem
with horsemcn.