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If I j ■ 1 i i . . | I * i 1 1 3 i ■ j ] I I I I • 1 I 1 i i j ; Ireal racing now at hand Inkling of Derby and Preakness Form to Bj Expected at Havre de Grace. , The opening of the Havre de Grace meeting Saturday is the real beginning of the annual eastern racing campaign. The Bowie meeting being one of purses only, its racing is in the main contested by low-class -i horses. It is seldom any horse capable of making turf history is started there. It is different at Havre de Grace. Here we shall undoubtedly see some of the important Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes candidates in action, some of those already backed in the Derby future books. What they may do will be solicitously considered and weighed by their hopeful backers. The Whit- 1 ney and Ross stables may show some of 1 their prospective stars and the much fancied ; Violinist has been sent there for the benefit i of a race or two before returning to Louis- ] ville for the big western feature. Good Times will also probably have an opportunity i to show whether his owners estimate that j he has nothing to fear from Morvich is well founded or not. Missionary, Lucky Hour, | Runstar, Sidereal, Marble and some others with excellent racing credentials as two- year-olds are likely to give a glimpse of | what may be expected from them this year. • It is hardly to be expected that really def- I inite conclusions can be based on the racing I of the three-year-olds at the meeting, but I anything they do will be intensely interesting to the many who are looking forward to I the exciting and difficult problem of picking I the winners of the two important races re- I ferred to. ! Aside from what these younger racers may da the inclusion of such older stars as Exterminator, Billy Kelly, Careful, Bon Homme, Bunga Buck, Baby Grand, Eddie Ricken-bacher, Tryster, Lion dO, Star Voter, Sailing B., On Watch, Polly Ann, Paul Jones, Oriole, Pen Rose and Boniface will be among those destined to provide delectable entertainment for the pilgrims present from Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, New York and other near-by points. It is the revealment of early form, some anticipated and some entirely unexpected, that makes our early important meetings so fascinating. Exactly two weeks from the opening at Havre de Grace will come the similar inauguration of the western campaign at Lexington. Its revelations will be even more delightful, or sorrowful, as the case may be, than those to be forthcoming at Havre de Grace. * *
