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PRINCE PALSLINEAGE AN INDUCEMENT Intent to Use Him As a Sire an Incentive to the Big Price Paid for Him HAVRE DK GRACE Md April 7 Edward F Simms who is interested in the Harford County track was here Sunday to discuss improvements at the Havre de Grace racing plant with general manager Edward Kurke Just before he started for Houston Tex Mr Simtus re ¬ marked that before he was finished with Havre de Grace it would be one of tin most attractive racing places in the entire country He was however more interested in what Prince Pal the Prince Palatine colt for which he and his friend Henry Oliver of Pittsburgh paid a big price the other day to the estate of the late Jere Wheel ¬ wright was going to do in the Kentucky Derby Mr Simms is of the opinion that Prince Pal will make n good showing at Churchill Downs May S If William Wallace is fortunate enough to get him to the post lit to race one mile and a quarter Hut neither Simms nor his partner will be utterly cast down if Prince Pal does not make an especially good showing in the Derby because they realize that the task to which they have put Wallace is dill cult Prince Pal wintered in Kentucky SOUK of the other Derby candidates have it on him as re gards condition Siniins and Oliver will lie satisfied if Irince Pill wins one or two good races as a three yearold or a threeyearold and over because when he shall have done that he will have qualified for service at Nalapa Stud It was us much be ¬ cause Prince Pal seemed a highclass stud prospect as he did a Derby lioie that Mr Simms and Mr Oliver bought him himThe The dam of Prince Pal Wilful Maid II has been bred this year to Theo Cook the son of Ken Krush and Climax Mr Simms is just now exploiting at Nalapa Stud He has not had either The Wanderer or Eternal mated with anything These fouryear olds are to be trained again this year They will be taken un some time in the summer Theo Cook has however served only a few of the Xalapa marcs In mating twentyeight or thirty others M Simms has pursued the scientilic Kuropean practice of seeking what apncared to be proper nicks for his matrons He has mated them with Kock View Hornless Fair Play Flittergold Great Kritain Sweep Polymelian North Star Omar Khayyam Kallot Broomstick Pennant Mont dOr and Olambala OlambalaMr Mr Shnms is going to keep on mating good mares with Great Britain until he gets a higjichiss race horse He wants a stallion of the line of Great Britain The Commoner and Hanover to carry on the line of Hanover and reestablish in America the ascendency of Herod This line has dwindled as regards its male ascendency It seems to be up to Great Britain to restore it And since such a colt as Hasten On was one of Great Britains first two yearolds to race it seems Miobable that the long ¬ distance running son of The Commoner and Touch Not may prove equal to the job Hasten On him ¬ self may qualify for servke at Xalapa by showing gooddas form this year under the silks of James W McClelland
