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HAVRE MEETING OPENS NEXT FRIDAY FRIDAYDaily Daily Money Distribution Will Average Nearly 11000 No Purse Less Than 1200 HAVRE DE GRACE Md April 10 The best there is of American sportsmanship will be repre ¬ sented at Havre de Grace in the spring meeting the Harford Agricultural and Hrecders Associa ¬ tion will inaugurate next Friday with the running of the 5000 Harford Handicap a dash of three quarters of a mile for sprinters three years old and over More than six hundred horses are already assembled at the picturesquely situated course of the Harford Association and all the stables of nearby farms are sheltering racers that could nut be accommodated within the confines of the course The Havre de Grace meeting will consume the last thirteen racing days of April and will be signalized bv ji distribution among horsemen of a matter of 140000 a daily average of nearly 11000 There will be no purse less than SI 200 200Hesides Hesides the Harford Handicap the stakes to lie de ¬ cided are the Susqnehanna 5000 added a dash if one mile ami seventy yards for threeyearolds the Aberdeen 5000 added a sprint of four and a half furlongs for twoyearolds and the Phila ¬ delphia Handicap 5000 added a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth for threeyearolds and over The Susquehanua will be run on April 21 the Aberdeen on April 27 the Philadelphia on April 30 Ceueral manager Edward Hnrke was compelled to defer the running of the Susquehanna the Aberdeen and the Philadelphia until the latter part of the meeting because a late spring made it hard for horsemen who wintered in the East to get their charges ready for highclass racing liy the middle of the month Hut thanks to the favorable train ¬ ing weather of the last three weeks horses every ¬ where have been working briskly and tin best threeyearolds a well as the handicap horses will be ready for the Susqmhauna and the Phila ¬ delphia delphiaTHE THE SUSQUEHANNA A TRIAL RACE RACEThe The miming of the Snsqiichanna this spring is invested with unusual anticipatory interest because it bids fair to serve as a trial race for the brilliant threevearolds that are training in the East for the impending renewals at Churchill Downs and Pimlico of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes StakesAs As the Snsquehauna will serve in part as a trial race for the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes the Philadelphia Handicap will offer to the best handicap horses that are preparing for the Pimlico Spring Handicap and the Kentucky Handi ¬ cap as well as the great long distance races for threeyearolds and over that are to be decided about New York later on a chance to show their stuff It will attract all the stars starsAmong Among the horsemen who have already shipped their best to Havre de Grace or are about to are Harrv Payne Whitney Captain Ral Parr W T Wilkinson Alfred Hennen Morris Robert J Wai den Richard T Wilson A King Macomber J JEdwin Edwin Griffith Coi ander J K L Ross Walter WalterJ J Salmon Major Robert L Gerry Cornelius AL Garrison George Vingfield John H Rosseter Philip A Clark Morton L Schwartz W R Coe H K Knapp Samuel C Hildreth Harry F Sin ¬ clair Frank D Weir Samuel Ross J W Hean Richard F Carman Edward Pcnlo McLean E T Xollicoffer Frederick Honsmaii lames R Skluker Henry A Porter J O Talbott R II McCarter Pot ¬ ter William Garth Lewis Garth J S Tyree Wil ¬ liam P Hnrch John Farrell Jr Robert A Smith C E Clement John Lumsden Norman Macfarlaue James W McClelland E K Hryson Daniel Cun ¬ ningham John Sanford William Martin Theodore Cook J H Shreve etc
