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HAVRE DE GRACE TRACK Training Grounds of Big Band of Kentucky Derby Eligibles Candidates of Foremost Eastern Stables Receiving Early Prep ¬ aration at Harford Course BALTIMORE Md April 11 The Havre de Grace race course over which Sir Barton and Paul Jones trained for their Kentucky Derby triumphs of 1019 and 1920 is the training place this spring of more potential starters in the Derby renewal of 1921 than any other track of the entire country with the possible exception of Churchill Downs Thirty odd colts and fillies have been galloping at Havre de Grace one of the most picturesquely sit ¬ uated and generally attractive racing places in the country since the first of April and this considera ¬ ble and busy colony will have eight or ten acces ¬ sions before the middle of the month James Kowe is due from Brookdale Farm which is in Monmouth County New Jersey early this week with fifteen or twenty racers of the stable of Harry Payne Whitney the Derby candidates Tryster Prudery Exodus Crocus Dartmoor Ararat and Broomspun among them themKemembering Kemembering the performances of Sir Barton Billy Kelly Paul Jones and Upset in the Derby re ¬ newals Of 1919 and 1920 racing folk are watching the training of the Havre de Grace candidates for the 1921 renewal of Kentuckys and the countrys greatest spring threeyearold special which will have a gross value of nearly 00000 with keen anticipation Not counting the formidable Whitney and Koss aspirants there are some unusually promis ¬ ing colts among them The Koss candidates at Havre Ue Grace ar AJbm Baby Grand Sailing B Sun Turret Pampas Star Voter Harmonique Oriole and Bastille Among the others are Larry Water burys Jigger Ailiiro and Idle Dell George W Loffs Halu Walter J Salmons Careful Step lighty and Ktibien Max Hirsclis Flying Cloud Willis Sharpe Kilmers Our Flag Magic Silence and Ultmidge J Edwin Griffiths Jeg J S Cosdens Iaunns and Kichard F Carmans Esquire Probably none of the fillies at Havre de Grace will go west to start in the Kentucky Derby It seems to be the intention of their several owners to reserve them for races exclusively for fillies The colts without exception are galloping famously The mildness of the past winter which permitted out ¬ door galloping everywhere from the first of the year on enabled northern and eastern trainers to accomplish nearly if not quite as much with their charges as trainer at Hot Springs and New Or ¬ leans leansMuch Much has been written already of the prospects of the Derby candidates of the Whitney and Koss stables It is sufficient to say here that it is highly probable that each of these racing astablish uicuts will have two or three starters in the Derby DerbyRUBIEN RUBIEN BIGGEST OF ALL ELIGIBLES ELIGIBLESKubicn Kubicn probably is the biggest of all the Kentucky Derby eligibles This liomerie chestnut stands seventeen hands on Ills plates He weighs close to 1200 pounds But there is no lumber about him Also lie can run Kubicn is a son of Peter Quince and Belle of Ashland she a halfsister of The Manager The Annual Champion Stakes of 1900 and Chester Cup winner of 1901 David Garrick belongs to Kubiens family He looks like a Peter Quince that might go on Brigadier General a Kentuckybred son of Light Brigade for which Samuel D Kiddle paid 30000 at New York last summer is nearly as big as Ktibien Brigadier General wintered at Glen Kiddle Farm on the Mary ¬ land eastern shore and galloped over the private course on which Man o War was training a year back He has furnished handsomely handsomelyAnother Another Havre de Grace Derby candidate of im ¬ posing bulk is Jigger a New Yorkbred son of The Curragh and Trance Jigger did not start last year but he is training satisfactorily this spring and the veteran Scott Harlan a man of few iilusions thinks highly of him If Jigger makes good at Louisville lie will try his luck later on in the I atonla Derby He is a near relative of Up net Latonia Derby winner of 1920 Jigger and Upset have a common ancestress in Fair Vision Jigger traces to Fair Vision through Trance Up ¬ set through Pankhiirst and Runaway Girl GirlFlying Flying Cloud is an untried colt by Wrack sire of Blazes and Careful dam Kohinctta she a daughter of Fair Play and Ketained II and a half Bister of the brilliant Eternals dam J Temple Gwalhmey bred Flying Cloud at his Canterbury Stud in Fatiquier County Virginia Max Hirscli the developer of On Watch maintains that Flying Cloud is a better threeyearold prospect than Grey Lag a colt he sold last fall to Harry F Sinclair for 25000 Halu which Hirsch is training for George W Loft is a big Virginiabred son of King James and Adelinette a producj of Henry T Oxnards Blue Kidge Stud that discovered rare form in muddy going last summer at Yonkers Our Flag is a compactly constructed son of Cock o the Walk and Private Flag which showed well at Saratoga last summer Esquire is a son of Merid ¬ ian Kentucky Derby winner In 1911 and Daruma He is Marylandbred a product of Richard F Carmans Carmandale Stud which is domiciled in Montgomery County just over the District of Co ¬ lumbia line and a brother of Carmamhile one of the crack twoyearolds of the season of 1919 Ecquire is a huskier type than Carniaiiilah and the liorsemen who watched him gallop at Laurel Park where he wintered speak with genuine enthusiasm of his speed and smoothness of action
