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OLD ROSEBUD ON THE AILING LIST Frank Weir Leaves Great Racer at Gravesend. Shipping Rest of Stable to Mary land. Havre de Grace. Md.. April 10. — Old Rosebud was the only member of the Weir-Ayplegate string that was not shipped iiere from New York last week. Frank Weir left the "miracle horse" at tJravesend because Old Rosebud has been ou the ailing list for a week or ten days. Weir is of the opinion that the popular racer will recover quickly and perhaps he ready for some of his stake engagements here or at least at Pimlico. Jack Hare Jr. will be the principal standard hearer for the Weir-Applegate stable in the Maryland stake features. This good colt has lengthened and thickened noticeably over winter and there is no room for doubt that he will figure conspicuously in the three-year-old racing at Havre de Grace and Pimlico and. later on. about New York. He is galloping soundly and eating heartily after every move. Moreover, he is ready for the colors. Jack Hare Jr.. which ranked fifth among the two-year-old money winners of 1917, Sun Briar, Papp, Kscoba and Tippity Witchet ouly having proved bigger money winners, won the right to be called the "Iron Horse" of his age. He started twenty-one times, which was once oftener than Tippity Witchet faced the barrier, and stood shipping all over the country. Weir has no fear that he will not maintain his speed over a long distance of ground, nor is he apprehensive that he will fail to manage weight. But Jack Hare Jr. is not Weirs only formidable three -year-old. Fort Bliss, which occupies an adjoining stall, is a colt of promise. This fellow is a well -grown bay. which started twice and won I lwth races at Juarez, and when he won his last race he ran three-eighths of a mile in better than 35 seconds. The Jockey Clubs rule prohibiting two-year-olds that raced at a winter track before April 1. 1917. from starting again until they were three-year-olds disqualified Fort Bliss for eastern racing and the son of Dick Welles laid up last summer. His rest did him no harm. He has covered three-quarters in better than 1:15 since he came to Havre de Grace and is a fairly sure starter in the Wilmington, in which he is engaged with Jack Hare Jr.
