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RICH HAVRE DE GRACE STAKES Maryland Track Will Distribute Between 00,000 and 50,000 to Horsemen at Fall Race Meeting. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., August 13. Between 00,000 and 50,000 will be distributed among horsemen at Havre de Grace in the course of the coining September race4 meeting of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association, arrangements for the conduct of which General Manager Edward Burke is pushing with energy. The foremost thoroughbreds of the most powerful eastern stables will participate in renewals of the ,000 Harford County Handicap, one mile and seventy yards, for three-year-olds and over; the 0,000 Potomac Handicap, one mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds exclusively; the 0,000 Eastern Shore, three-quarters of a mile, for two-year-olds, and the 0,000 Havre de Grace Handicap, one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over. These specials will close on Monday, September C. Altogether there will be 87,300 added to the stakes and purses during tho seventeen days of racing beginning September 11 and ending September 30. The renewals of these valuable stakes at their present values will be their first. The Eastern Shore was won last year by Commander J. K. L. Ross Constancy, the most successful two-year-old filly of 1919. The Canadian sportsman, whose stable will cut a conspicuous figure in Maryland racing again next fall, won the Potomac Handicap with Sir Barton, the star three-year-old of 1919, and the Havre de Grace with Cudgel. Cudgel is now the head of the Ross Farm Stud. Edward Beale McLean of Washington won the Harford County Handicap with gallant little The Porter. The latter and Leocharcs will race again in Maryland this coming fall. The overnight races of the Havre de Grace meeting will pay from ,200 to ,500 in added money. Martin Nathanson will act as racing secretary of the course in succession to Joseph McLennan. Improvements that will cost some 0,000 have been made atIIayre: .dc .Oracetiilijigroer. , Unttbo. UvwfcroMmprovementr llasbeeiTrwitricled 6 stable construction because of the impossibility of obtaining structural steel and skilled labor for the task of doubling the sheltering capacity of the grandstand. This work will be undertaken in the late autumn and winter.
