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READY FOR HAVRE OPENING With Wealth of Material on Hand Grand Racing Is Forecast Prominent Stables Will Take Part Partin in Meeting Which Begins On OnTuesday Tuesday Sept 10 Havre de Grace Mil Soptemlxr 7 Tlie stage i set at Havre de Grace for the inauguration of what promises to Im the l lest est season of fall racing ever witnessed in Maryland Between 800 and 1000 tf the lx st thoroughbreds of various ages and sorts are assembled there or are sheltered in barns on farms around about and all have lx en thorough ¬ ly seasoned by weeks of spring and summer racing Practically every horseman eastern or Canadian who is prominent in racing will have his colors up in Maryland this fall and many of them will do their first racing here hereThe The Havre de Grace meeting which will be con ¬ ducted by the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association will begin on Tuesday and continue to the end of the mouth Havre de Grace racing will l followed by the October meeting of the Mary ¬ land State Fair Corporation at Laurel Park and then come the NovemlnT meetings of the Maryland Jockey Club and the Southern Maryland Agricul ¬ tural Association at Pimlico and Howie The eastern season will wind up at Howie qu November r Situated about midway between Wilmington and Baltimore on the main lines of the Baltimore Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads and reached by the famous state roads which have made Maryland popular with antomobilists all over the country Havre de Grace is the most accessible town in the eastern tide water Also it is one of the most attractive The race track occupies a promontory that juts abruptly out into placid Chesapeake Bay and the landscape is a variation of wooded hills and watery expanses expansesThe The climate is always good and at this season the country is beautifully green The climate is so equable in fact that many horsemen have made the stable of Havre de Grace track the permanent alK des of their horses Several hundred of the run ¬ ners that will take part in tiie September racing here and then pass on to Laurel Park came down from Yonkers at the end of July pretty well knocked out by their campaigns on the metropolitan tracks These horses have freshened wonderfully Moreover here has l een a marked improvement in the condition of some of the stables that have ar ¬ rived from Saratoga in the past ten days WILI HAVE COMPETITION COMPETITIONHavre Havre de Grace will have New York competition throughout the September meeting and Laurel Park will have competition to October 25 But New York racing this fall will help not injure the sport in Maryland With no racing in Canada there are more thoroughbreds in the east now than could possibly l e provided for on one racing circuit Moreover Havre de Grace derives its support mainly from Philadelphia and Baltimore and Laurel Park is maintained by the patronage of Baltimore and Washington WashingtonAmong Among the horse folk of greater or less promi ¬ nence whose runners will be ready for the colors at Havre de Grace on Tuesday are Samuel D Kiddle Walter M Jeffords and Mrs Walter M Jeffords all of Philadelphia Commander J K L Ross and Wilfrid Viau of Montreal John Lumsden of Ot ¬ tawa Samuel Koss E T Zollicoffer and J S Tyree if Washington Cornelius Garrison Alfred Hennan Morris S E Clement Itobert J Walden Capt Hal Parr U S A J E Griffith J O Talbbt Abner Clopton G K Bryson Frank Weir Frank Farrell John Farrell Jr Richard T Wilson Jo ¬ seph Manone J S Ownbey J M Black J Gas Mr Edward Cebrian and J H Rosseter of Cali ¬ fornia Godfrey Preece Bithard F Carman P A Clark Edward Trotter James Arthur Stephen Judge William Martin Howard Oots Bobert Smith J W Bjyton Harry Bites Bithard Pending George 1 Sherman John Kelly John Tlioniby J S AVard J W Parrish James F Johnson Poter Sheridan J H McCormack Jefferson Liv ¬ ingston Archibald Zimmer and A F Althouse AlthouseOne One of the most famous horses grooming for Havre de Grace racing is the gelding Billy Kelly juvenile hero of the Saratoga meeting Billy Kelly probably is the greatest twoyearold gelding that ever raced in this country He is in the stable of Commander Boss with Cudgel Canso Bonnie Dance Foreground Wigstone Cadillac Monornoy and other runners which came down from Saratoga in prime condition conditionSome Some of the other fleet runners which will take part in the impending meeting are Omar Khayyam Wenty Hogan George Starr Flitlergold Midway Franklin Valor Be Frank African Arrow Josefina Zarate Boutiedge Star Hampton Dr Johnson The Boy Jill Auntie Nigel Blazeaway Louise V Startling Duke of Devonshire Highland Lad and the jumpers The Brook Babcock Early Light Kingstown Pier Shannon River Captain Parr Le Mursouiu Robert Oliver Reddest Bet St CLarl coie and WcldslUp
