The Washington times., 1936-04-11
HaVre De Grace
Prepares For
Meeting

HAVRE DE GRACE, MO-, April
11.-Everything was hustle and
hustle here today, for at 2:30
p. m. Monday the Hartford Agri.
culture and Breeders Association
will usher in the second lap Of
the 1885 Eastern racing season.
Fourteen days racing will be
offered at this picturesque plant.
During that time four stakes will
be run. The first will be staged
Monday. 1t is the twenty-fourth
renewal of the $4,000 Hartford
Handicap, a dash of three-quar.
tiers of a mile. Among the GER
tain starters is John Hay Whit
ney's Singing Wood.
The Whitneyite, who is trained
by big Bill" Norton, proved his
class when he won the Bowie
Inaugural with 1913 pounds up.
In that race he stepped five and
one-half furlongs in the new time
Of LOT Is. Since being vanned
over from Bowie, Singing Wood
has been breezing cleverly and he
is certain to rule favorite at post
time.
Race Secretary Charles McLen.
nan and his staff were busy this
morning lining up Mondays pro-
gram. Seven races will be run with
the final event being over around
$3.50 p. m. This will enable TURTLES
residing in Philadelphia, Whining.
ton, Chester. Baltimore and Wash.
ington ample time to return to
their respective cities for their eve
ming meal.
Racing's newest innovation, the
Charles M. Waite electrical eye"
which photographs all finishes.
will be used throughout the meet
ing. The Waite machine has been
adopted by the Maryland Racing
Commission to photograph all fin
lshes at Pimlico, Laurel, Bowie and
this track; but it will first go on
exhibition here Monday. The
Waite "eye" is highly recon-.
mended by thousands of horsemen
and turfmen, who saw it in action
during the winters racing at
Tropical Park, Fla.
The EaSt'S crack three-year-olds
will fight for the $4,000 Chesa-
peake on April 18. This mile and
one-5ixteenth affair is the final op.
portunity for Eastern candidates
for the Kentucky Derby to tighten
up. April Is is the date for the
$500 Philadelphia Handicap:
while on April 20 the $2,5- Aber.
deem Stakes will be run. The last
named event is exclusively for two
year-olds. Among the scheduled
starters in Alfred G. Vanderbilt's
Airflame, holder of the worlds
three-eighths mile record of .33.
Every train and motor-driven
truck pulling in today was loaded
with horses, who came on from
New York, Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky, Canada, Arkansas, and
Florida. Several hundred horses
were vanned in from the Pimlico
and Bowie tracks. Others are due
in tomorrow from Bowie, where
the initial lap of Maryland's spring
season ends today.
The racing strip, despite recent
rains, is in tip-top condition.
Horses have been working briskly
over it, and Superintendent James
Ross freely predicts that at least
one track mark will be broken be-
fore the 14-day racing ends.
Jesse Bennett, custodian of the
Jockeys room, reports that he has
applications for permission to ride
from more than so boys. Among
the topnotchers slated to don silks
here are Sonny Workman, Silvio
Coucci, Harry Richards, Eddie Ar.
caro-. Les Pichon, Bobby Merritt.
E d die Litzenberger, Frankie
Dougherty, Willie Ray, Johnny
BejShak, Lloyd KNAPP, Leo Fallon,
Sammy Renick, Cliff Stafford,
Sammy Palumbo, Eddie Smith,
Carl Hanford, Ira Hanford, Hilton
(Rabbit) Dabson, Maurice Peters.
and Jimmy Lynch.