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OPENING DAY AT HAVRE Nothing More Than a Field Day forJ KL Ross Stable Billy Kelly Milkmaid Sailing B Band and Elemental Carry His HisColors Colors to Victory HAVRE DE GRACE Md April IB The open ¬ ing day of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Associations spring meeting was nothing more or less than a field day for the powerful racing stable of Commander J K L Ross Four of the Mon ¬ treal turfmans horses made their initial appear ¬ ance of the year and all four were returned win ¬ ners The gallant Billy Kelly won the Harford Handicap the peerless mare Milkmaid defeated Tippity Witchet in the TipTop Purse the Ross Derby candidate Sailing B was first home in the Chester Purse and Elemental a twoyearold son of Ultimiis Xarco making his turf debut carried off the juvenile dash that started the afternoons entertainment The ninth running of the Harford Handicap the stake feature of the program brought out a field of ten highclass racers and despite his heavy im ¬ post of 130 pounds Billy Kelly was the outstanding choice The great son of Dick Welles was never in better form and it was well that such was the case for W J Salmons crack filly Careful gave him the race of his life With the rise of the barrier Careful dashed to the front and set a ter ¬ rific pace running the half in 46 and when Billy Kelly challenged at the head of the stretch fought it out with him stride for Astride and f orced 1iim to equal the track record of 1711 Ys to bea t her by a head It was a great finish and the applause of the big crowd was as much for the game filly as it was for the popular Ross gelding Star Voter another of the Ross horses was third and he was followed home by Senuings Park Dr Clark Paul Jones and Wildair WildairThe The peerless Milkmaid had the capital Tippity Witchet as her most formidable opponent in the TipTop Purse and the easy manner in which she passed the Bauer star in the last eighth gave further evidence of the fine form the Ross horses are in Tippity Witchet led from the start but could not successfully resist the challenge of the speedy mare and had to lower his colors in the last sixteenth while Milkmaid drew away to win by two lengths lengthsCommander Commander Ross Derby candidate Sailing B made an impressive debut as a threeyearold de ¬ feating with ease some fair horses of his own age in the Chester Purse establishing a new track record for five and a half furlongs of l05Vo in doing so After todays race it is certain he will be sent to Louisville to carry the Montreal turf ¬ mans colors in the big Kentucky race raceMUCH MUCH INTEREST IN JUVENILE DASH DASHMuch Much interest was displayed in the first appear ¬ ance of a fine band of twoyearolds which the bugle brought to the post in the opening dash of the meeting Elemental a fine looking bay colt by Ultimus Xarco for which Commander Ross paid 10000 at the Saratoga yearling sales last August was the public choice and under James Rutwells expert handling was returned an easy winner a length in advance of J S Cosdens Lent with R F Carmans Excuse third The Whitney representative Zealot was fourth fourthStarter Starter Miltons assistants report that nil the twoyearolds which have been schooled here are well advanced in their barrier education educationThe The jockey colony here is strengthened by the addition of T Callnlmn E Haynex J Grunelsen E Harbourne F Weiner and S Wida WidaS S A Cloptons large string shipped well from Bowie BowieThe The RiceDoyle string lias been divided and E W Padelford has taken over the horses of Thomas Doyle while Mr Rice will train his own ownThe The veteran western trainer Louis Tnuber saddled all of the Ross horses today todayFred Fred Musante has arranged to ship his stable to Toronto at the conclusion of the Havre de Grace meeting My Dear will be entered in all of the all aged stakes to be run at the Woodbine and other meetings in Canada CanadaW W McDaniel is not hurrying the good handicap horse Exterminator along His plans are to have the horse ready in about a month or six weeks The threeyearold Our Flag in the Kilmer stable has developed into a grand looking individual individualWilliam William Doyle will not be seen at Pimlico this sprrng as that meeting conflicts with the one at Jamaica where he will act as one of the patrol judges judgesLouis Louis Marline who is confined to his apartment at Arlington with an attack of pneumonia is re ¬ ported to be convalescant and will be up and about in a couple of weeks weeksSidney Sidney Bender was an arrival from Havana where he was detained for a couple of weeks com ¬ pleting arrangements for improved shipping facili ¬ ties from the States to Oriental Park next fall fallA A capacity crowd turned out to witness the racing Satisfactory weather conditions prevailed though heavy clouds in the morning threatened to spoil the day dayS S Lewis of New York bought Captain Heishler from W R Tolmie The transaction was private privateThe The stewards suspended jockey S Biillman for three days for rough riding in the fiirat race
