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HAVRE DE GRACE AUTUMN PROGRAM General Manager Burke Has Provided Valuable Array of Offerings for Horsemen HAVRE DE GRACE Md August 18 The Har ford Agricultural and Breeders Association has published a program for the impending September meeting at Hayre de Grace track that will bring the best horses of the east to Maryland even before the windup of the Westchester Racing Associations fall meeting at Belmont Park General manager Edward Burke and clerk of the course Joseph Mc ¬ Lennan announce that the daily distribution in purses will be 10000 with an advance to 15000 on Saturdays and four stakes that will have a total value of 35000 all added money The stakes will be the Harford County Handicap 5000 added at a mile and seventy yards for threeyearolds and over the Potomac Handicap 10000 added at a mile and a sixteenth for threeyearolds the Eastern Shore Stakes 10000 added for twoyear olds threequarters of a mile and the Havre de Grace Handicap 10000 added at a mile and an eighth for threeyearolds and over overThere There will be no entrance fee in any of these races but a starting fee of 100 will be charged in each The Harford County and Potomac Handi ¬ caps will close on Monday September 8 the East ¬ ern Shore on Tuesday September 10 and the Havre de Grace on Monday September 22 22The The Harford County Handicap will be run on September 11 the Potomac on September 13 the Eastern Shore on September 20 and the Havre de Grace on September 27 McLennan is already at work on his overnight program and he will cut according to the cloth at hand He will pay par ¬ ticular attention to the encouragement of long dis ¬ tance running and the values of the overnight races will be graded according to the quality of the horses they will seek to attract The minimum purse will be 1000 1000This This is the most ambitious program ever put out by the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Asso ¬ ciation and it will have a revolutionary effect on Maryland fall racing No program that has been offered in a dozen years by a New York track is comparable with it It bears a favorable comparison with the programs announced for Laurel Park and Pimlico
