New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Havre de Grace
Expects Record
Racing Crowd
Thirteen-Day Meeting|
Bids Fair to Attract Big
Entry aud Heavy Gate

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md, April 49,
Racing will move a matter Of sixty
or sixty-five miles nearer to the heart
Of the universe-that is, sixty or
sixty-tive miles nearer to Wilmington.
New York and Philadelphia this week.
On Wednesday the Hartford Agricult-
ural and Breeders Association will in
augurate spring meeting that bids
fair to be the most successful in rae
ing history.
The attendance at Bowie these two
weeks has exceeded all earlier South
ern Maryland records, and with special
train service over the Baltimore &
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads re-
stored to pre-war efficiency and pune
tuality, it is safe to prophesy that the
Havre de Grace meeting will draw q
heavy gate also. The Pennsylvania
trains from Washington and Baltimore
on the one side ard those from New
York, Philadelphia and Wilmington on
the other will run directly to the
grandstand.
thirteen days of racing, racing that
wall be marked by the running of a
llberally endowed programme and the
initial appearances for their public
trials of the great Eastern three-year-
olds that are pointing for the $25, 900
Preakness, Pimlco's splendid three
year-old special, and the Kentucky
Derby, the Vests most popular three
year-old event, both Of which will be
run in May.
1t will be at Havre de Grace that the
public will see under colors for the
first time since last year the crack
three -year-ods of the Ross, Whitney,
Clark, Garrison and Whitney stables
Billy Kelly, War Pennant, War Marvel,
Milkmaid, Sir Barton, Blue Laddie,
Vindex, Bayard, Headstrong, Dun
boyne, Purchase, Be Frank, Cirrus,
Lord Brighton, etc.
1t will be from Havre de Grace
around May ! that such Of the great
Eastern owned three-year-olds as are
intended for the great Derby to be
run at Churchill Downs on the 10th
will be shipped toward Louisville and
that the colts and FLIES that are des-
tined to remain on this side Of the
Alleghenies for the Preakness will
start on their way TO Pimico.
Havre de Grace will offer the first
steeplechasing of the season of 1919
and it will be here that the smartest
two -year-olds of the most powerful
Eastern stables will begin the course
of training and racing that is to fit
them to fill their great engagements at
Pimlico. Jamaica, Belmont Park, Aque-
duct. Yonkers and Saratoga in the
summer
Maryland has never harbored in
springtme smarter lot of two-year-
olds than have assembled already at
the Hartford Agricultural and Breeding
Association track. There are about
500 horses Of various ages and degrees
OF usefulness here now. and moro are
coming. Secretary Rebberger probably
will have upward of 100 from which to
fill his fields. He could easily get on
with 400 or 800.
A,list Of the names Of all the horse
men who viii participate in the Havre
de Grace meeting would be too long
for publication. The more prominent
Samuel D. Riddle, Walter NJ. JEFF
d. Widencr, Joseph II. Widener, Joseph /
L.. Murphy, W. Y. Gallagher and p. X. /
Joyce, all Of Philadelphia Harry Payne
Whitney. Mr.. Payne Whitney, Alfred
Hennen Morris, Richard r. VIII
SON. Samuel c: IIldreth. w. II.
zoe, benton Gray, Cornelius M. |
Garrison, Robert A. Smith, j. B Elwcll, |
George NJ. Odom, George Smith, Frank
D.. Weir, p. S. p. Randolph James +. |
Johnson and Morton l.. Schwartz, Of
New York; Captain Raj Parr, j. s.
cosdcn, J. +. Griffith. Robert j. Wal
den, j. M. Black, Richard A. johnson,
ir, Ernest Hall, John Farrell, George
sherman and c. +. Clements, OF Balti-
more; Colonel Philip r. Chinn, w. T.. |
Applegate, II. c. Applegate and J. W.
May, of Kentucky; Samuel Ross, j. r. I
Skinner, j. W. Bean, j. f. Sweeney and |
c. c. Smithson, of Washington; Henry
A. Porter, of Oklahoma Commander
j. K. l.. Ross, of Montreal, and William
Garth, General j. A. Buchanan, II.
Rozier Dulany, Woods Stockton, etc,
of Virginia.