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HAVRE DE GRACE OPENS WEDNESDAY Thirteen Bays Meeting Expected to Be Best Ever Held at Harford Track HAVRK DE GRACE Md April 12 On Wednes ¬ day at the picturesque Havre de Grace track which overlooks Chesapeake Bay the Harford Agricul ¬ tural and Breeders Association will inaugurate a spiring meeting which promises to be the most successful ever held at the Harford track The attendance at Bowie these two weeks has exceeded all southern Maryland records and with special train service over the Baltimore Ohio and Penn ¬ sylvania railroads restored to prewar efficiency it is safe to prophesy that the Havre de Grace meet ¬ ing will lie a record breaker too The Pennsyl ¬ vania trains from Washington and Baltimore on one side and New York Philadelphia and Wilming ¬ ton on the other will run directly to the grand ¬ stand standHavre Havre de Grace will be the scene of a thirteen days meeting a meeting that will be marked by the running of a liberally endowed program and the appearance for their public trials of the great threeyearolds of the east that arc pointing for the 2tOOO Preakness and the Kentucky Derby It will probably be at Havre de Grace that the public will first see under silks some of the crack three yearolds of the Ross Whitney Clark Garrison and Hildreth stables Billy Kelly War Pennant War Marvel Sir Barton Bayard Headstrong Blue Laddie Vindex Diinboyue Be Frank Purchase Cirrus Lord Brighton etc etcHavre Havre de Grace will offer the first steeplechasing of the season of 1919 and it will be here that some of the star twoyearolds of the most powerful eastern racing establishments will begin the course of racing anil training that is to fit them for their great engagements at Pnnlico Jamaica Belmont Park Aqueduct and Saratoga Maryland has never seen in springtime a better hand of twoyearolds than have assembled already at the Harford asso ¬ ciation plant There are several hundred horses here now and more are coming Secretary Frederick Rehberger calculates that he will have upward of 1001 thoroughbreds on which to draw for the filling of his fields
