Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-15
HAyRE DE GRACE MEETING.
UPWARDS of l.200 Horses Ready FOL
the Seasons Opening Tomorrow.

UPWARDS of | 200 thoroughbred horses
are M Havre de Grace, Md, ready for
the annual races there which start to-
morrow and continue for two weeks.
Unless the plans of the management
are altered the order OF the running OF
the uavre dc Grace stakes will be as
follows: Hartford Handicap. April 10;
Wilmington. April Is; Philadephla Iandi-
cap, April 20; Aberdeen, April p; Penn.
April 24; perryville, April %, Susquehan-
ma Handicap April 27 Chester. April 30.
Horses which IN ordinary years would
not be seen unde colors before the last
week OF May, if as early as that are ready
TODAY The Hartford Philadelphia and
Susuuehanna Handicaps tIavre de Grace
best specials for thrce-ye r-Olds and over,
the Wilmington stakes for thrce-year-olds
exclusively and the Pcrryville and Aber-
deen stakes. in which two-ycar-oIds only
NAV start. all are sure Of frst-rate fields
The Wilmington renewal will be q race
of unusual interest this season because
IT bids fair To bring TO the post half =
dozen or more of the smart Eastern ;
year-olds that are being readlcd up for
the preakness renewal at PimlIco. The
preakness will be a Sl5.000 race this
season and the best horses n the land arc
training for IT, Prominent among the
colts and fillics pointing for the Preakncss
which may be seen at the post IN the
Wilmington are Commander Ross seven
English and Irish runners, ttlllhampton,
Bonnie ADance, Wigstone, Canso, Fore
ground. Corn Exchange and Althea,
which cost the Northern sportsman 800
600 last fall Bonnie Dance, tho most
forward Of the lot # recent work counts
for ANYTHING. won the Phoenix Park Plate
al Dublin last summer HIS purchase
price was $4,000 These are all good
lockers and Bedwell has them IN splendid
condition. Among the 3-year-olds better
known 70 American horsemen and horse
folk engaged TO run with these outlanders
are Jack Hare. jr., Nepperhan, Mary
Maud. Amackassin, Ballast, Papp, h.
of p, Bancha, Happy Cfo Lucky, Cobtal
Whippoorwill, Orlando OF Havana. Bonnie
Broom, etc.
Harry Pavne Whitney seems TO have
the smartest 2-year-olds at the track.
All his Youngsters are homebrcd 1nd they
we're prepared for the Havre dc Grace
races at Benning hy Albert Slrnons
Among them is a half-brother OF Cobalt.
half-sister of Buskin, half-sister Of
Bonnie Broom, half-sister of Jacobite
and Charles Edward. etc Other Eastern
| horsemen who will show good youngsters
are Samuel d. Riddle, Walter NJ ,letfords,
George ID. Widencr and Joseph L. " Nidener
! OF Philadelphia; Richard l. Wilson. JT.,
+; the president of the Saratoga Association;
| Richard r. Cannan. " liirid iau. Z. \.
Clark, c f. Clement, John MeClclland,
! W r. Coe. George Niugteld Major
/ Clifford A Cochran r O kagan. Cor
nehus Fellowes, " illiam Garth, Lewis
Garth, John Lumsdcn, Commander Ross,
J. T. Zimmerman Joseph l.. Murphy,
of Philadelphia Samuel Ross, J. ;.
Tyree, r. H. McCarter Potter, i. l..
Price, Captain Philip Walker, I. ;. y;
Emil Herr, j. $ Owcnby and Captain "
j. Press
There will be steepleehasing at Havre
: de Grace also and the clever fencers of the
Atlantic seaboard States that are school
ing for the Pimlico meeting which Will
be marked by the running of "a $4,000
Green Spring Valley steeplechase, will be
| there The crosS-country course here Is
in beautiful condition The rains OF the
last few days have had powerfully
stimulating effect on the sod.