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. . i " . . I ALL HAVRE DE GRACE STABLES TAKEN Entire 850 Stalls Already Spoken For, with Many Additional Applications Pouring In. Havre de Grace. Md., April 4. — There are 850 stalls at Havre de Grace and every one of them has been reserved. General Manager Burke has had to turn a deaf ear to numerous additional applications for stable room. This situation is entirely due to the eight or nine weeks of training weather horsemen who wintered their stables in Maryland. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York have experienced. Hundreds of horses that would not. in less propitious seasons, have been as far advanced at the end of April as they were at the end of March, are practically ready for the colors, and if they cannot find stabling at Havre de Grace track they must mark time until the Jamaica meeting on Long Island. The trainers of these horses have been unable to 1 get stabling at the Harford County track because, not knowing six and seven weeks back that their runners would lie in such excellent condition at this . time, they neglected to apply for stalls until everything at the track had been pre-empted. The horses now at Havre de Grace and the horses 1 that will he coming on this week and next will find I excellent going for galloping. Already two-year-olds of the Rose and McClelland bands have been 1 showing quarters in 23% and halves in 48 or thereabouts. The track, really, is in as good condition 1 as it was last fall. Allx-rt Simons is expected from Penning tomorrow with the second division of the stables of Harry Payne Whitney, which he wintered. Simons expected, as recently as a week ago, to have his 1 horses ready for the Prince Georges Park meeting, but an epidemic of influenza, which played havoc with his two-year-olds, upset this arrangement. BIG STRING COMING FROM NEW Y0RX. James Fitzsimmons has sent word that he will be down from New York April 8 with thirty runners i Itelonging to James F. Johnson and other eastern horsemen. Michael Daly and Louis Feustel will arrive from Berlin, Md.. "April 8 with the stables of f Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords and Samuel D. Riddle, and Feustel will bring his own popular • sprinter. He Will, with the Riddle campaigners. There are forty horses of various ages in the combined Uiddh and Jeffords stables. Next week the Havre de Grace colony will be reinforced bv twenty members of the stable of Richard - T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association; - ten Itelouging to the stable of A. K. Macomber. ten belonging to Captain William J. Press of Toronto, twentv belonging to J. O. Talbot t and Abner f Clopton. eight belonging to George W. Loft of New York, twentv In-longing to William Woodard and • P. A. Clarke, ten belonging to Thomas Clyde anil 1 A. C. Weston, twentv belonging to William Garth. Captain Ral Parr E B. McLean. J. S. Cosden and 1 Lewis Garth; twelve belonging to George Wingfield. • Nevadas most extensive breeder of thoroughbreds; ; thirty belonging to Richard F. Carman, Richard F. ■ Carman. Jr.. and Wilfrid Viau of Montreal: twenty 1 belonging to Edward McBride and C. E. Clements of f Boston and ten lielonging to William L. Oliver. Pupp. which is to lie prepared at Havre de Grace for the Ileakness. will lie in the Loft string, which 1 Max Iiiixli will have in charge. Westy Hogan 1 and Omar Khayyam will be in the Viau shipment. It looks just "now as l hough Maryland is in for r a mild, pice— 1 spring. The trees are in full bud I and the grass is green evervwhere. Old inhabitants declare that this is the earliest spring of the lasi 1 twenty five years, as the winter just past was the toughest winter.
