The Washington times., 1929-04-12
BIG PRIZES
LURE 1900
HORSES

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April H.. Thirteen hundred
thoroughbreds of various ages
and kinds have gathered here
for the spring race horse meet
ing, which begins Monday
with a revival Of the Hartford
Handicap, a, $15,O 900 dash of
six furlongs for three-year-
, olds and over, the opening
feature.
There will be about $175,000 alto
gether in PURSES Other stakes to
be revived are the $4,000 Philadel-
phia handicap, gallop of ! 1.16
miles for S-year-olds and over,
April 20; the Aberdeen, $4,000
sprint of Az fdrlongs for 2-Year-
olds, April "a, and the Chesapeake.
$4,000 gallop of / 1-18 miles for
S-year.olds. e usively, April 81.
Twelve hundr ed of these horses
auaRtered within the confines of
the Havre de Grace course, which
occupies a low promontory over
looking the Susquehanna flats so
dear to the hearts of American gun
ners. The overflow is in stables on
farms roundabout.
It is not enough to say that these
horses are much filter than the
thoroughhreds that have been as
sernbling here every spring for the
last II years. Really most of them
are approaching mid-spring FORM
form that wins at Belmont Park
and Aqueduct in May and June.
Not within living memory has there
been a season more clement.
Horsemen Of the Maryland
and New York racing areas
have taken fnIl advantage Of
this good weather. Only the
hest that have been at Bowie
through the spring session OF
the Southern Maryland Aggicul.
turaI Association. which ends
tomorrow. are going IN get any.
thing. The cheaper winter
track campaiGnRrs will be
dead loss. They may as well
lay up for the half.mile track
meetings.
The Hartford meeting will be fol-
lowed by a session of thirteen days
at Pimlico and meanwhile spring
racing will have begun at Jamaica
and Lexington. The horses that
have participated in the Bowie rae.
ing likely to go best here are in the
stables of Bernard 3. Jones, Jeffer-
son Livingston. Robert A. Smith.
Edward Beale Mclean. Samuel
Ross, Earle Sande. William F. Scheid,
C. H. Pierce, jacques Cohen. Harry
r. Sinclair. w. E. Caskey. Mrs. F..
Ambrose Clark. George Wingfield,
John Keene, Enrique Gutierrez,
Breckinridge Long. Harry Payne
Whitney Samuel Ross, Harrison
Nesbitt. etc.
The Heather. winner of the In
augural handicap a week ago last
Tuesday: Essare. winner of the
Capitol last Saturday: LIE Bey. win
ner of two straight; My Sis, Crossco.
Aucilla. Poly, Mathis Minister. For
tunes Favorite, Pagan Laddis, Under
the Rose Spectre. Phillip. Dress
Ship, Ben Marshall Swatter. Will
liam T. Burning Glass, Coots, etc.,
will earn their way on any track.
Neighborhood nominators in The
Hartford Associations four stakes
are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter NJ. Jeffords,
]. Smylie Herkness and George D..
Widener of Philadelphia; William
du Pont. Mrs. j. Simpson Dean,
and Harold Leroy Freck, of Viii
mington: Mrs. Charles Amory Raj
Parr. j. Edwin Griffith. j. Fred
Adams. of Baltimore: and Admiral
Cary r. Grayson. James w. Bean.
Z. c. Smithson. ETC., of Washington.
Other liberal nOminatOrs are
William K. Coe, Richard 7.
Wilson, Walter j. Salmon, G.
v. B. Cushman, Capt. Philip M.
Walker, Reid Riley, Mrs. Kath-
Emanuel, Ben Block, Edward
Phipps, Mrs. Payne Whitney,
Woodward, Henry C. Phipps,
Mrs. l.. G. Kaufman, the Sea.
gram brothers, w. H. HOff-
man. w. L. Hernstadt, Howard
w. Maxwell, Clifford A. COch.
ran. Joseph e. Davis, Robert
u. Gerry. Willis Sharpe Kilmer,
George Clark. A. L. Aste, J.
r.. Jones, r. HI. FaulcOner,
Charles T. Fisher, William
Garth, Woods Garth, A. g,
Weston, etc.
Havre de Grace racing will have,
a beautiful setting this spring. New
grass is six inches high and vividly
green. Peach, plum. pear and even
appletrees are in 'fuIl bloom, and
elms, gums, naples. oaks and beach
trees show the delicate light green
of half leaf Spring is three weeks
ahead of schedule the natives say
and it is too late for. killing
frost.
Midway between Baltimore and
Wilmington on the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads,
81 miles south of Philadelphia and
75 miles north of Washington the
Havre de Grace course ID splendidIy
placed. Beside these big towns there
Is populous hinterland behind
that is criss-crossed by the finest
hard surfaced highways to be found
anywhere in the country More
over the double decked vehicular
bridge across the Susquehanna at
the town of Havre de Grace Is
no longer a toll bridge but free.
The lower roadway is for south.
bound traffic, the upper for north.