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; . • I i 1 f 1 ■ T 1 1 1 *• e s - i. of 4 il e - d to o of if EXTERMINATOR READY , » Kilmer Champion in Training at Havre de Grace Course. , ♦ ■ Veteran Has Put On Weight During the Winter — Probable Starter in Harford. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 2 —Last April Exterminator astonished a big crowd at Havre de Grace by defeating Billy Kelly, Dexterous, Exodus, Bunga Buck, Serapis, Mercury and other sprinters of high speed in the ,000 Harford Handicap. W. S. Kilmers long-distance running champion, hero of three Saratoga Cups, three revivals of the Pimlico Cup, one of the Latonia Cup and many more less important races, outsprinted at three-quarters of a mile one of the fleetest short-distance runners of his time. Billy Kelly, a three-time Harford winner, led easily in the stretch, but succumbed to Old Slims speed in the last quarter mile. This Harford Handicap victory was one of a series of successes that added 0,000 to the bank account of Willis Sharpe Kilmer of Binghamton, N. Y., Droughts Exterminators total of earnings to within ,000 of the total of 49,000 amassed by Man o War in 1919 and 1920 and to within less than 0.-000 of the then worlds record of winnings gleaned by the English Isinglass. AVAS LAME LAST FALL. If anybody doubts that Exterminator will be ready April 10 for another first-class performance in another Harford renewal he has only to come down here and look the old fellow over. The late Eugene Way land wintered the veteran at Mr. Kilmers Sun Briar Court farm at Binghamton. X. Y.. and brought him here about three weeks ago after he had been fired for an osSLlet that lamed him last November at Pimlico while he was training for a renewal of the .J 10,000 Bowie and 0,000 Pimlico Cups. Because of this osselet Mr. Kilmer had to abandon a hershed plan of sending Exterminator to Tijuana to try for the Coffroth Handicap, which paid 0,000. The sobriquet "Old Slim" hardly fits Exterminator now. The old fellow is as fat and round US a two-year-old. He appeals to be carrying all of 150 pounds more flesh than was distributed over his frame last year. He is hardly that much stouter than he was in November, but he is hardly recognizable just the same. TRAINING SATISFACTORILY. Inder the handling of William Shield* a veteran of wide experience. Exterminator is on the bit all the time. Last week and he week before he was going a half mile in 55 or 56. He is doing better this week. Keep-i ing an edge on Exterminators speed wiil not be difficult. He is one of the steadiest campaigners ever. He stands up better under hard racing than has any horse of the Ore* class developed in many a year. Possibly he will be stiffly matched in the coming Harford renewal. It looks now an if a bunch of unusually capable horses wiil line up at the peat for Havre de Grace*! opening day feature, but he will be ready to do his best and it" he is ambitiously matched, so will be his opponents. Exterminator had no opportunity t make fast time in last springs decision of the Harford. He meed over a muddy track. But as a four-year-old, it will be recalled, he took up 123 pounds and ran tturee-quartera over the Hot Spring:; course, which is slow. in 1:12%, beating Ultima Thuie, an unusually capable sprinter. QUALITY Ol K1LMLB HORSES. There is plenty of quality among the thirteen horses of the Kilmer stable here. One of Exterminators companions is Sallys Alley, the largest money-winning two-yeu- old of last year. Sallys Alley, one of whose ankles was fired for an omelet a couple of weeks back by Dr. It W. McCully. is training for her rich three ■year-old stake ngage-e men.s. Another highly regarded three-year-old is SunfeTence, winner last year cf the ilud- son Stakes at Aqueduct Sunference, a son of Sun Briar, is a strikingly handuome c It. He could beat Sallys Alley doing anything last spring. Sallys Alley baa a good twe-l. year-old half sister in the outfit in Sun Alley. Sun Alley is a daughter of Sun Briar. All the Kilmer horses are in fine condition.
