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AN OFFDAY AT HAVRE DE GRACE Fruit Cake Outstays Rubidium in tho Feature Race Pickwick Outstays His Opponents HAVKi pi GKACi Mil April 29 In anticipa ¬ tion of a big day tomorrow the card of today was of the ordinary variety but a good crowd witnessed the racing over an improving track The main item on the card was the fifth race which fell to Fruit Cake in an interesting struggle with the stead ¬ ily improving Rubidium RubidiumPickwick Pickwick showed to advantage in taking up 127 pounds and defeating Midnight Sun and Iaydm in a finish of three heads apart in I he fourth race recovering his speed suddenly Midnight Sun was a good favorite and was knocked about at a criti ¬ cal moment but for which he would have won wonTommy Tommy German secretary of the Connaught Park Jockey Club wrote Joseph McLennan asking that he compile conditions for the spring meeting at Connaught Park Ottawa The book will be ready in a couple of weeks for distribution Connaught Park is one of the most popular tracks on the Canadian circuits among the horsemen horsemenT T Hodge purchased at private sale of A Gas coigne the threeyearold Picker and Stealcr StealcrThe The stake blanks for the races to close offered by the Ontario Jockey Club for its spring meeting at Woodbine Park reached here this morning and were eagerly sought after by the horsemen There are nine stakes in all including the Street Kail way Steeplechase The other fixtures are the Toronto Cup 10000 added Connaught Cup 30110 addid King Kdward Gold Cup 2000 added Minto Stakes 2000 added Woodstock Plate 2000 added and the following for twoyearolds Vic ¬ toria Stakes 000 added Juvenile Stakes 2001 added and the Coronation Stakes 2300 added Kn tries t these races close May 5 The lowest value of any of the overnight purses at the meet ¬ ing will be 1000 If conditions warrant a steeple ¬ chase will be run every day dayX X K Iteal announced that he would ship to Churchill Downs tomorrow the threeyearold colt Sandy Peal and the threeyearold filly Kallipolis where the former will receive his final prepara ¬ tion for the Kentucky Derby Kallipolis will be a starter in the Kentucky Oaks OaksVerity 0vJ Verity was claimed by GMcSwooney fort7r fort7r0v 0v J Kennedy has purchased from K F Carman flu old campaigner G M Miller He is intended for racing in Canada Canadalp lp to date there havi been fortyei ht claims the average claiming price being 2300 2300The The following horses the property of Albert Gas oigne were disposed of in tile paddock at Havre do Grace this afternoon Pleasing Picture 1 Ken ¬ nedy 475 Evening Kay 1 T Johnson l5 AVcsterman G McSwccney 305 Uiuir C Sa r tas 700 rranium W Oliver 103 103M M 1 Murpiiy claimed Midian for 2050 Mar mite was claimed by G W Forman for 1825 iiilast went to V II Fixers barn for 2025 T Coburu has bought Iton Tromp on private terms from 1 W Murphy and sold Paddy to II Ackers Ioth horses will be trained by C Itnxton ItnxtonJohn John Sanford the Amsterdam X V breeder and horseman was a visitor today
