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HAVRE DE GRACE STAKES Secretary Rehberger Announces AnnouncesDates Dates Fixed for Their Running Employment Aplenty Offered the theSteeplechasers Steeplechasers Wonderful WonderfulMeeting Meeting Predicted IIAVUH DE GRACE Md March 18 Secretary Frederick Rehberger of tlie Harford Agricultural ind Breeders Association has sent abroad his stake books for the sprint race meeting which will begin here oil April IK and finish out the month Success ¬ ful as was the spring meeting last year every ¬ thing at this date points to the greatest ever held nt the Harford Association course Certain it is there will be more of the better grade of horses seen in competition as the mild winter lias made oarly training possible with the result that more horses are ready for racing now than has been the case in a decade or more The dates Mr Kehberger has fixed for the running of the Havre de Grace attractions are areHarford Harford Handicap for threeyearolds and over 1500 added five and a half furloirgs April 1C 1CPrinceton Princeton Stakes for tlireeyearolds and over 1000 added five and a half furlongs April 18 18Trenton Trenton Steeplechase 1000 added two miles and Philadelphia Handicap for threeyearolds and over 11 500 added threequarters April 19 191ort 1ort Deposit Stakes for threeyearolds and over 1000 added five and a half furlongs and Wil ¬ mington Stakes for threeyearolds 1000 added five and a half furlongs April 21 21Kent Kent Stakes for threeyearolds and over 1000 added five and a halt furlongs April 114 114Elizabeth Elizabeth Stakes for fillies and mares three threeyearolds yearolds and over 1000 addcd five and a half furlongs and Peim Selling Stakes for threeycarV threeycarVolds olds and over 1000 adde Lliveiand a Jialf fur r = Aberdeen Stakes for twoyearolds 1000 added four and a half furlongs April 24 24llelair llelair Stakes for threeyenrolds and over 1000 added threequarters April 25 25Klkton Klkton Steeplechase lo6l artded two miles and Susqiiehaiina Handicap for threeyearolds and over 1500 added one mile and seyenty yards April 26 26Perryville Perryville for twoyearolds 1000 added four and a half furlongs and Newark Stakes for three yenrolds and over 1000 added threequarters April 28 28Cecil Cecil Stakes for threeyearolds and over 1000 added one mile and seventy yards April 29 29Chester Chester Stakes for threeyearolds and over 1000 added threequarters and Oakington Stakes for threeyearolds and over 1000 added three quarters April 30 30There There will be employment aplenty for such of the second and third rate steeplechasers as will IKJ ready for the Havre de Grace meeting and two of the races offer opiwrtunitics for a display of the best wares of the topnotch fencers now in Maryland that an getting ready for the 5000 Green Spring Valley Steeplechase which will be run at Plmlico in May anil bring to the post the best bunch of Jumpers likely to be seen under colors in months monthsSTEEPLECHASING STEEPLECHASING FEATURED FEATUREDOne One of the races that promise so well is the affair for nonwinners of three steeplechases that wilt 10 run on April 23 This is tho nice in which E 15 McLeans promising jumpers Kubbcr II and Fencer prospective starters in the Green Spring Valley will have their first chance of the year Also it bid fair to bring to the post Mrs Payne Whitneys Debadou winner of last years Elk ridge Timothy Donohues Eylsian tho Nassau Stables Decisive Edward M Welds Belle of the Sea J E Griffiths Impartiality Mrs Walter M Jeffords Babcock Archibald Barklies Donnarella and Captain Kal Parrs Bughouse and Plancy to the post These are with the exception of Babeock all fouryearolds Babcock one of the most bril ¬ liant developments of last year is a fiveyearold foil of Waterboy and Chimera which Michael Daly Iried his artistic hand on last year with such fortunate results Babeock it will be recalled fell lame at laurel Park while training for the 10000 Manly Memorial He was immediately put by and has become sound and strong over winter at Samuel D Kiddles Glen Riddle Farm in Wor ¬ cester County Maryland where the Jeffords stables have marked time since last November NovemberThe The Elkton will offer to the handicapper Walter S Vosburgh his first opportunity to appraise the several merits of the great steeplechasers of the country on their performances of last fall And an expectant public is rather keen to note how he will rale such stars as 1 E Griffths The Brook Joseph K Widenors Dtiettistc W A Primes Belle of Bryn Mawr W R Coes Bet etc They will all be at Havro d Grace and ready for the colors against the day the Elkton is run runSuperintendent Superintendent Lawrence Burke has been at Havre de Grace a couple of weeks now and he lias both his flat and crosscountry courses in tiptop condi ¬ tion He will be called upon this year to take care of more horses through the first fortnight of April than he ever lias been in the past
