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READY AT HAVRE DE GRACE , * Meeting to Open This Afternoon with Good Racing in Prospect. « Track in Good Condition and Probably Will Be Fast — Jack Hare Jr. Named to Start. s — ♦— Havre dc Grace. M I.. April 15. -The thirteen days" meeting at bm dc WMe, which is scheduled to begin tomorrow, promise* to be one of the !»-st ever bold at the Harford Comit.v track. While 1 li«-r«- will be do special race trains, still arrangement* have liecn made for all of thr regular trains lo stop at Havre de Grace and racegoer* will soon a ciist mi themselves to this new arrangement. Every stall on the ground is occupied and stabling i now at a premium. The track is in good condi-tioii. despite the terrific downpour of rain last week. With continued good weather, the track promises to he fast tomorrow. Jockey 4. G. Pets was an arrival from Belmont Park, where be has been galloping horses the past ii th for William Karrick. Ietz has made I • omicctioii with R. 1». McDaniel and will ride the horses that this young horseman is training. An otNT rider that got in this morning was J. Poland, one of the hest of the elder division of jockeys, who has been riding in the west during the iiast few years. Kolaud is especially good at riding two-year-olds. ". Peak also got in from Hot Springs. He will ride as a free lance here. Roger Miutou is also hen- and will look after the engagements for jockey Pitz. Several stables got in from Havana this morning. In the consignment were J. Hope with Bill Sim iuon~ and Dignity. William Keating with Margaret 1... and W. H. Martin with Mother Machree auo Frank Keogh. All shipped well and. despite their long trip, were unloaded in good condition. Bill Simmons i-. the property of tol. Pcppe Estranipes. ine of the prominent jioliticians of the Conservative party in Cuba. Col. Kstrampes is an enthusiastic horseman and an ardent lover of the thoroughbred. Itefore leaving Cuba W. H. Martin disposed of the plater Battle Abliey and H. C. Riddle sold the throe year-old Dryer to t;. Odell. The horses that came here from New York are all in forward condition and several of them have worked well since their arrival. BOSS HORSES ATTRACT ATTENTION. The Wilmington Handicap, to lie decided here Thursday. April IK. will be a race of unusual in-teres! this spring because it bids fair to bring to the post half a dozen or more of the good eastern thrci year-olds that are Iwing trained for the lreakness at Pimlico. Prominent among the colts .vnil Sllies which are beiiig pointed for tile Preaknesv which may be seen in the Wilmington are Commander Ross seven English and Irish runners— HiMhampton. Bonnie Dance. Wigstone, Canso. Foreground. Corn exchange and Althea. Bunuie Dance, the most forward of this string, if recent work counts for anything, won the Phoenix Park Plate at Dublin last summer. These horses are all good lookers ami Bedwell has them in hrst-rate condition. Among the three-year-olds better known to patlons of American racing and engaged to run with these are Bonnie Broom. Jack Hare Jr.. ; Nep|M*rhan. Amackassin. Ballast. Papp. K. of K.. Mancha. Happy Go Lucky, Cobalt and Whippoor-will. Hurry Payne Whitney has a big band of likely juveniles here ready for racing. His youngsters, all of them homebred, were prepared for the Havre de Grace races at Kenning by Allicrt Simons and they came here ready. Included in the Whitney string is ■ half-sister of Buskiu. a half-sister of Bonnie 1 Broom, a half brother of Cobalt and a half-brother of Jacobite and Charles Edward. tit her well-known eastern and western horsemen who will show good youngsters at Havre de Grace are Joseph L. Murphy. Samuel D. Riddle. George D. Widener. Walter M. Jeffords ami Joseph E. Widener. all of Philadelphia: Richard T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association: Richard F. Carman. Wilfred Viau. P. A. Claris. C. E. Clement, George Wingtield. of Nevada: James W. McClelland. W. R- "•• MaJ- Gifford A. Cochran. K. O. Egan. of California: Cornelius Fellowes. Lewis Garth. William Garth. John Lttmsden. Commander Ross. J. S. Tyree. R. H. McCarter Potter. J. L. Price, "apt. Philip Walker. I*. S. A.; Emil Herz. J. S. Ownbey ■ and Capt. W. J. Press. STEEPLECHASING A PLENTY. There will lie steeplechasing a plenty ;it Havre de Grace and many of the liest fencers of the east that an l«ing prepared for the Green Spring Valley [ Steeplechase will be here. The cross-country course in ill beautiful condition, the rains of the last few . days having had a particularly stimulating effect on the v,k1. | Ciller the plans of the management are altered Hie order of the running of the Havre de Grace stake- will lie as follows: Harford Handicap. April I 16: Wilmington. April Is; Philadelphia Handicap. April 2 i: Aberdeen. April £»; Penn. April 24: Perry -villc. April 25: Susquehanna. Handicap. April 27. • and Chester. April ."111. James Fitzsimmons has arrived from C.ravesemi i with the iuincy Stable, which is made up mostly ,- of two -year -olds. other arrivals from Cravesend 1 al-e JaaBM -Murphy, Otto Kausch. James Boden and "Sandy " McXaughton. Gloomy Gus. a top-notch i selling plater and a reliable horse, is Ranchs la-st t iKt. McXaughton has brought down the four-year-old Rivordale. which ha" matured noticeably, the j three-year-olds George Starr. George Clark and Billy Murphy and a couple of two-year-olds. But , McNaugliton thinks ■ lot more of his promising . young jockey. Kunimer. than he does of all of his J horses nut together. Ktiniuier rode creditably at t Howie. Tin- Harford Handicap promises well. The distance - is i «, short to call for anything but high ii »pecd and High Cost. Jack Hare Jr.. Tea Caddy. gtartlins and Fitzwilliam can furnish that in its s t**t Manifestation. The latter is an English colt, that H. G. Bedwell is training for J. K. I.. Ross. : He beat good race horses in England la-t year and 1 inav l.e dangerout here. All around the entries af-ford » wehoine relief from low-class contestants s engaged jn thr Bowie racing.
