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MARYLAND CAMPAIGN OPENS Havre de Grace Meeting Begins Today with Cheerful Outlook Westy Hogan Named in the Havre HavreDe De Grace Handicap Fast FastSprinters Sprinters to Meet Havre de Grave Md September 9 Tlie opening tit the fill season of racing in Maryland will be ushered in at Havre ile Grace tomorrow whore a seventeen days meeting is scheduled to begin Over 00 horses are on the grounds and among them are seme highclass racers The track is in splendid order and with taltimore and Philadelphia followers hungry for the sport a big meeting is anticipated Secretary McLvnnan has furnished a well arranged program for the opening day There are seven races on the card with the Yankee Doodle Purse and the Havre de Grace Handicap the main attractions Some fast sprinters are named to go to the i ost in the Yankee Doodle among them Hauberk Icarus and Prince of Como while the Yiau pair Wcsty Hozau and George Starr are named in the handicap A steeplechase over the twomile course is also scheduled as n feature featureThe The train service will be the same as lust spring which means that nicegoers will have to make the trip to the course on the regular trains trainsThe The officials will include several new faces union them J McLfnnan who will act as racing secretary and associate judge and Herman Conkling who will act aa clerk of the scales James Milton will do the starting startingSeveral Several Canadian turfmen have arrived with their strings among them 15 L Cole John Dixon and J W Graver Alan Bulcroft wired that he would ship direct to Laurel from Montreal J W Pangle has a fresh stable of horses here which are destined for a winters campaign at Oriental Park Cuba CubaMany Many tsirfmen have made application for stable room at the Cuban course who formerly raced their stables at some of the southern tracks tracksRoscoe Roscoe Troxler is here and will be seen in the saddle during the meeting meetingS S A Clopton has twentyseven horses here in the J Talbott stable They have beeii at Havre de Grace for several weeks weeksII II G Bedwell is here with a division of the J K L Ross stable and Sandy McNaughtoir has tli Wilfrid Viau horses at the track trackThe The officials for the meeting are as follows Steward C T Fitz Gerald judges C Cornehlsen ind J McLcnnan starter James Milton timer James Kneale paddock and patrol judge William Jennings racing secretary Joseph McLennan McLennanThere There will l e seven races daily and the first nice each day will begin at 230 p in
