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MARYLAND RACING TODAY i Fall Season, to Be Inaugurated at Havre de Grace Track. Cudgel, Sir Barton, Sun Briar and Other Stars in Opening; Day Feature. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., September 10. The autumn meeting of the Harford County Racing Association, which is scheduled to begin tomorrow, promises to be the greatest ever held at this course. There are stabled at the course a particularly fine band of horses and quality is much more noticeable than at any other former meeting at this track. The club lias been extremely liberal in added money to the different stake events and the big purses have proven a strong magnet and lias attracted the stars of the big eastern stables. The program offered on the opening day shows the smaliest purse offering to bi- of tiie added value of ,115 and the largest ,000. which is added to the afternoon attraction, the Harford. County Handicap, a dasli of a mile and seventy yards, in which is carded a field of fourteen high-class horses. The J. K. L. Ross stable lias three in this race Cudgel, Sir ISnrtou and Billy Kelly and the W. S. Kilmer stable two. Sun Briar and Exterminator. At the weight adjustment it should furnish a splendid contest. Track conditions here at present are not as good as in previous seasons. The track is deep in dust and a little rain would help matters materially. It inigli be well for those figuring the chances of the horses to favor those which have shown a disposition to rati in soft or heavy going. Despite the change in ownership of the course, the management is, practically the same is in previous seasons, Edward Rurke being in charge, with Joseph McLennan acting as racing secretary. James Miltoii will do the starting. C. .7. Fitz Gerald will act as presiding steward, and C. Cornehl-sen and Joseph McLennan will be the judges. Tiie first race is scheduled at 2:30 and there will be the usual seven races offered every day. The E. T. Zollicoffer horses have been turned over to W. T. McKinney. who succeeded A. Rrent as trainer of the establishment. Edward McBride has arranged to leave for Kentucky on Friday to look over seven yearlings for a gentleman who contemplates going into racing. Steeplechase jockey Leon K. Reder, while schooling a jumper through the. field at Havre de Grace yesterday, fell and broke his collarbone. Ya. Weller, chief assistant to James Milton, has been here for a week past schooling the horses. George 1etersoni and James Robertson, who shipped from Saratoga to Havre dp Grace, left with their horses this morning for Aqueduct. Frank Garrett, former trainer for J. W. Hedrick, purchased the mare Dolina of G. W. Forma n yesterday. Al Austin, Owen Tons and R. E. Chapman are among the horsemen who shipped their strings from Kentucky to Havre de Grace. S. A. Clapton, who lias been ailing all summer, left tills morning for Hot Springs, Ark., where lie will remain until the opening of the New Orleans racing season. His horses are here in charge of E. G. Shaffer.
