Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-04
THOROUGHBREDS
At HhVRE DE GRACE
Horses by the Score Training for
the Annual Spring
Meeting.

Havre De Grace track, which will
furnish the theatre for MARYLAND racing
thrpugh the last fortnight of April, is now
the training place OF seventy-tive or on
hundred OF the smartest race horses IL
the East and IN another week or ten DAYS
its spacious stables will he the habitation
OF "a couple of hundred more horses which
for one reason or another have not bcef
hurried into condition for the opening
session of the Maryland season at Prince
Georges Park, Bowie
The most distinguished horse at Tn,
track is James McClelland's $4,000 Nul
calm Rosetrec I'd. two-vear-old whlcl
Is pointing for the Spring Juvenile Stakes
at Fimlico and famous Juvenile specials
OF great value that viii be run on the
New FORK tracks later on. This youngstel
has no stake dates at Havre dc Grace
because McCleland did not care to hurry
HIM. With him in the McClelland
stable arc eight other youngsters, the
lot representing an investment of about
S35, 900
Owing to transportation difficulties,
entailed by war conditions. it is almost
impossible to obtain express cars tor
the shipment OF horses In large numbers.
Accordingly the stable of Commander
j. K l.. Ross, of the British Royal
Navy, is arriving piecemeal from the Ross
Farm, Yarrow Brae. In Howard County,
Maryland. However, the entire outht,
which represents an investment OF about
"A quarter of million, will be at the track
at the end OF the next week and III. Guy
Bedwell will begin readying some great
ones up for the big campaign. Bedwcll
has not been able TO send many OF his
horses to Rowic for the Southern Maryland
meeting because he had had no track to
work on Laurel Park for the last four
months having been a military encamp-
ment
$4,000 colr.
Cudgel a son OF Broomstick jTnd Eu-
genia Burch, for which Commander Ross
put up the substantial sum of $50, 900 IN
Kentucky last fall, after the colt had
demonstrated that he was the smartest
three-year-old west of the Alleghanies,
will train at Havre de Grace for the
$1,000 pimlico Spring Handicap. the
Metropolitan. the Suburban, the Empire
City and the Saratoga, and he will be
seen under colors here, for he. IS IN the
Susquchanna and the Philadelphia handi-
caps Havre de Grace's best races for
horses of mature age. The biggest
nomnator of them all IN Havre dc Grace
stakes. Commander Ross has Priscilla
Mullins. Uncle Brvn, Fltzwillam and
Damrosch in the Philadelphia and Sus-
quehanna handicaps with Cudgel. Uncle
Bryn, FItzwIlliam, Damrosch and PRS
ella Mullins are his nominations for the
Hartford.
The running of Ross British-bred
thrcc-ycar-olds, of which the best seem
to be Hillhampton, a son Of William Rufus /;
Bonnie Dance, a son of lsomond; Fore
ground, son OF Fugclman; Corn Ex-
change. a son of Buckwheat; Nlgstonc. a
son of Bayardo; CanSo, a son of Iemberg,
and Althea, daughter of Bridge of
Allan, Will be followed with the keenest
interest. These are all in the Wilmington,
Iavre de Grace's best special for three
year-olds, and the ones that show best will
be trained for the $4,000 Preakness at
Pimlico and the $4,000 Kentucky
Derby at Churchill Downs.
CANADIAN STABLE TO RUN
Omar khavvam, winner Of the Ken
tuckv and Brooklyn Derbies Of last season i:
also Of the Saratoga Cup and the Law
renee Realization Stakes, and Ncsty
Hogan. hls stable companion ana con-
queror in last November's renewal at
Plmlico Of the $4,000 Bowie Handicap.
the most formidable Of Cudgel's pros
pective opponents IN the 5000 Plmlico
Spring Handicap and the New York
races to be decided later on, viii be at
the course toward the end OF next week,
with twenty or twenty-five other runners
OF the stables Of Wilfrid Niau. of Montreal,
and the { CarmanS. of Montgomery county.
Oscar ard Westv are galloping famousv
and they also viii start in the Philadelphia
and Susquehanna handicaps if they have
no bad luck
LOUIS Feustel viii bring He VIII, an
old Havre de Grace fayorite, down from
New York Tuesday or Wednesday also
a Jumper or SO: and Richard .. Miller
will ACCOMPANY him with Sand Marsh
the winner Of last season IIarford Handi-
cap. Sand Marshs bad leg has had a
wears rest. and il seems to be as good as
new. With Sand Marsh VIII be Anthony
l.. Astes one-timc great sprinter Ten
Point. which qualified ut Havre dc Grace
for the kentucky Derby, in which he was
beaten by Dennerail q few seasons back.
Aste, unable 10 obtain enough good mares
10 give Ten Point a fair chance at the
stud, has leased the horse to i, r. Doctor,
Sand Marsh owner, for another season
racing. The big son Of Jack Point has
wintered satisfactorily and looks like a
good proposition Ten Point is a As
horse when right
Michael DAILY, who has wintercd the
runners of the stable Of Walter NJ
Jeffords, Of Philadelphia and Mrs
Jeifords at Berlin, on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland. has wired that he VIII be
at Havre de Grace on Tuesday or Wednes-
day with a string made up of the three
year-old tRed Sox, DIR. Johnson and Smoky
Lamp, and raft Of two-year-olds, one
OF which, Mister Jimmy, a strapping bay
gelding, by Assegai, out Of Nevada, Is