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HAVRE DE GRACE PROGRAM Old Features Retained, but Will Be Run as Overnight Races. Uncertainty of Transportation Facilities Eeason for No Closed Stake Events BALTIMORE, Md., February 27. Tlie Jockey Club having assigned to tlie Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association, for its spring race season of 1919, the last fortnight of April, general manager Edward Burke has arranged a series of specials for that meeting. They are the Harford Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, ,500 added, five and a half furlongs; the Philadelphia Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, ,500 .Hided, three-quarters of a mile; the Susquehanna Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, ,500 added, at a mile and seventy yards; the Penn Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and over, ,000 added, five and a half furlongs; the Chester Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and over, ,000 added, three-quarters of a mile; the Wilmington Stakes, for three-year-olds, $.1,000 added, five and a half furlongs.; the ;Aberdeen Stakes, for two-year-olds, ,000 added, four and a half furlongs, and the Ferryville. Stakes, for two-year-olds, ,000 added, four and a half furlongs. Frederick Rehberger, racing secretary of the Queens County Jockey Club, -will act as secretary of the impending meeting. Mr. Rehberger has served in that capacity since the first meeting at Havre de Grace in 1912, although he was not able to be at Havre de Grace last fall. These races will not be run as stakes, but rather as overnight races of high value. Mr. Burke had trouble obtaining transportation from . Philadelphia, Wilmington and New York, and Baltimore and Washington, to Havre de Grace last year because of the. demand -war made . on , the-transportandtloiu facilities of "the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads. He does not know yet the extent to which those railroads will be able in a special way to serve. Havre de Grace in the spring, and in the absence of definite knowledge he and his associates thought it prudent not to close a group of expensive, stakes. The overnight program will meet any condition existing when the track here opens its gates to the public in the middle of April. The Havre de Grace meeting will follow immediately after that at Bowie, ani it will be followed by the spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Iinilico. Better horses than are usually ready for early racing will campaign here. Havre de Grace will be the trial place of candidates for the .525,000 added Preakness, the richest of eastern races for three -year-olds, which will attract a brilliant field this year; the ,000 Pimlico Spring Handicap, a race for horses three years old and over, and the ,000 Pimlico Oaks, a new race at a mile and a sixteentli for three-year-old fillies. Also it is here that the speedy two-year-olds of the strong eastern and western stables that will take part in the Pimlico Nursery and the Spring Juvenile will appear first. Because of the Spring Juvenile and the Pimlico Nursery it is now worth the while of the great stables to bring their fastest youngsters to Maryland for April and May racing. And the youngsters that will make their debuts here and at Bowie and Pimlico this spring are a better band than Maryland tracks have had in the past. Many of the high-priced yearlings of last summer are wintering in Maryland, and mildness of the weather since the first of the year has enabled trainers of stables that wintered about New York to get their charges ready for racing on equal terms with the youngsters that have been at New Orleans and Hot Springs.
