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— t Here and There £ on the Turf , c Continuance of Canadian Racing Pleases. Exterminator May Race at * Havre de Grace. Jumpers Plentiful for Pimli- , cos Meeting. Announcement of the dates for the Cana- . I dian circuit reveals that there will be plenti- . . ful racing on the other side of the border this year. This has been made possible by some relief that was afforded certain of the tracks s in Quebec in the matter of tax expenses. There e was some surprise that Windsor did not appear in the list, but there was one other track, , not mentioned in the schedule, that will con- . duct a meeting. This one is Devonshire. The p meeting there seems assured, although the dates have not yet been awarded. With the various smaller tracks that will also operate e it will be found that horses that are taken to Canada will find ample opportunity for profitable employment. There was fear at one time that the racing ;" would be seriously curtailed on account t of excessive taxation, so the publication of if the dates was indeed welcome news for the e horsemen. It is possible, and probable, that it some of these meetings will be conducted at a loss, but the big thing is that Canadian racing is to continue. When the nominations were announced for the Belmont Park Stakes it was found that Exterminator had not been named for either the Metropolitan or Suburban Handicaps. This led to the belief that Mr. Kilmer might have decided to race his wonderful old gelding in Kentucky only, for he had been liberally nominated in handicaps there. But he is still to be a New York attraction, for he is in the nomination list of the Brooklyn Handicap. Exterminator is at Havre de Grace now and the present intention is to begin his 1923 campaign with the Harford Handicap, the three-quarters dash that started him on his winning way last year. He has several other Maryland engagements to fill and the manner in which he has been training suggests that he will come back to the races the same sturdy dependable champion that he has ever been. The book for the Havre de Grace meeting ; has been received from the printer and dis tributed among horsemen. In this book Jo seph McLennan has ably sustained his reputa tion for interesting races. He has an excel lent proportion of the races over distances 1 greater than a mile and it is such racing that t is always commendable and most popular with i patrons of the turf. The minimum purse at Havre de Grace is 5 ,200 and there are four ,000 stake races I to be decided during the short meeting. In the I main the program is one that will give the I best -class horses many opportunities and the ; racing will have a truly metropolitan flavor. . The four stake races have all filled exceed ingly well and at the close of the Havre de ? Grace meeting on April 30 there should be a ; 1 t i 5 I I I ; . ? a better line on the possibilities of many of the eligibles to both the Preakness Stakes and Kentucky Derby. The stake races of the Maryland Jockey Club will close April 10 for the Pimlico meeting, which opens May 2. For a considerable time the old course has had a big colony of horses making ready and, while a number of them will be attracted to Havre de Grace for what is offered there, others will remain in training quarters for the later meet ing. At Pimlico a great number of jumpers are preparing and that branch of racing will not want for horses. At Havre de Grace the book provides for a race through the field every other day and that will mean the shipping of several to fill engagements there. The horses are for the most part transported by van from Pimlico to Havre de Grace, but the roads are excellent and it is a comfortable and convenient manner of travel. With the announcement of the closing date for the Tijuana meeting there will be a moving of some more stables from the far West and the closing will also bring back some of the 1 riders to Kentucky and the East. Better horses are coming out daily and it is promised that the racing at Bowie may improve in the character of the horses that are I started. Therj are plenty of fairly good ones ! available and it only takes warm sunshine and I a favorable track to bring them to the post. At this time of the year a trainer may be excused for picking spots for any good one that has been in retirement and he would be , foolish, irrtecd, if he asked too much of a i horse with a whole season of valuable en-i gagements before it.
