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HAVRE DE GRACES PROGRAi Four 5000 Stake Races and Fa Purses for the SjDring Meeting The Chesapeake Stakes To Pro ¬ vide a Derby and Preakness Trial for ThreeYearOlds TIAVIin 1B CRACK Mil March 1 The pro tram for the Harford Agricultural and Breeders soi iation coming spring meeting at Havre de iiiice which secretary Joopli MeLennaii has just 1 lit out provide for tin distribution among horse i n of the srross siun of 140400 As I he meeting Mill he of thirteen lays Inration tliis will be a lily average of a little more than SI 1 000 Be riusr of Ihe carliness of the dates allotted by the Jo koy rial for the Harford meeting general man Kir Kdward Burke and secretary McLcnnan de ¬ rided not to npin any stakes of great vain1 The current winter has been severe and few of the host horses will be ready for the early racing Most of the Ilarfonl Associations 10000 daily distribution will lie in overnight purses the value of which will run from 1200 to SLHOO SLHOOThen Then will however he four stakes of SiOOO added eacli as follows Ilarfonl Handicap for three jvarolils and over threequarters of a mile hosapcake Stakes for threeyearolds one mile and seventy yards Aberdeen Stakes for twoyear olds four and a itlt furlongs and tho rhiladelphia Handicap for tiireeyearolds and over one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthThe The ntce v of thi quartet of slakes in which there will be the greatest public interest are the Chesa ¬ peake Stakes and the Philadelphia Handicap The Chesapeake will he tht first race exclusively for three yearolds of respectable value that will n run in the east By putting on the Chesapeake the Harford Association management will bring practically all the eastern Kentucky Derby ami Preakness aspirants to the Havre de Grace course JVr training The Chesapeake will lie run Satur ¬ day April 24 Tht Kentucky Derby will be run sixteen or eighteen days later and the Preikness Mil be run four or five days after the Derby DerbyThe The Iliiladelphia Handicap which will he run April W will bring out the better eastern horses f more mature years that will by training for the Iimlico Spring Handicap the Kentucky Handicap and races of great value over considerable dis ¬ tances of ground that will be run in Kentucky and about New York later on The conditions of the hcsapcake Stakes will make It an excellent trial race for l he formidable threeyearolds Winners of more than SJOOOO must carry full weight Non winners of one race of 20000 or of two of S10000 each or of a race of 3400 in ll0 will be allowed four pounds each Nonwinners of one race of STrOl or two of tr OO will receive twelve pounds Honwiuners of still smaller sums fifteen anl rightcn rightcnNO NO STEEPLECHASING iNEXT SPRING There will be no stecplecliasing at Havre de trace his coming spring because objection has been raised to the course by the National Steeplc hase and Hunt Association The course will be thoroughly rebuilt and on the most orthodox lines before next fall There will be a preponderance of short races on the Havre de Grace program viag to the backwardness of eastern horses of good clas hut the sprinting races should be most mostiractiv iractiv iractivThere There arc a number of twoyearolds that were tried highly at Kenning Iowie Laurel Havre do race and Iimlico last fall and tjie owners of thpsi youngsters will soon he or their way to Bowie track to enter them in the Miller school The Itowie meeting will usher in the eastern racing s is n of 19241 It will begin on the first of ofpri pri and continue fourteen racing days daysOne One of the Itelmoiit Park stables that will he al R vif next spring will he that of W It Coe Over There a colt that was first in the I iwrence Idealization Stakes at Rclnxint Park last September only to be disqualified on a claim of foul is a number of the Coe stable Other good performers of Ihe stable which is trained and managed by Uilliam Karrick with his son Kenneth Karrick as first assistant are Natural Bridge Cleopatra Davfd Hariim and a promising band of twoyear olds by rilinius Celt llarmonicon and Polymelian Tin Polymelian and Harmonicon youngsters are hunt hrcds products of Mr Coes Shoshone much in Wyoming WyomingKarriek Karriek was moved to decide to train at Bowie next spring by had weather There lias been so iniuh snow and sleet and ice at Relmont Iark he has not been able lo do much in the open openAnother Another metropolitan stable that will train at Itowie is that of Kichard T Wilson president of the Saratoga Association Mr Wilsons horses will come to Itowie in charge of Thomas Ilealoy His shipment will include the homebred twoyear olds by Olamhala some by Ogden and tiie older campaigners Wyoming Hannibal and Thunderstorm Probably If Hannibal does well in Maryland next Npring lie will go wost in May to start in the 10000 Kentucky Handicap lo be run at Churchill Downs
