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MARYLANDS FALL RACING Many Valuable Stake Eaces to Be Decided in the Course of Next Fall. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., Aug. 18, 1921. The ten days fall meeting of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association that will begin here September 24, to end October 4, will be marked by the distribution of about 25,000 and the renewal of three ?10,-000 stake races, the Eastern Shore Handicap, Potomac Handicap and Havre dc Grace Handicap. The Harford Association will usher in autumn major racing in Maryland. The Havre de Grace meeting will be followed by tho Maryland State Fair Associations twenty-three days meeting at Laurel Park, that by the Maryland Jockey Clubs twelve days meeting at Pimlico and that by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations twelve days meeting at Prince George Park, Bowie. The gross distribution in Maryland this coming fall will exceed ?775,-000. It may reach 00,000. Salient features of the Laurel Park meeting will be renewals of the Washington Handicap, Maryland Handicap, Manor Handicap, National Handicap, Chevy Chase, Capitol, Laurel and Patuxent Stakes. Pimlico racing will be marked by the running of the Maryland Futurity and the Walden Handicap, Pimlico Autumn and Manly Memorial Handicaps and the Serial Weight-for-Age races. Bowie important races will be the Prince Georges Fall Handicap, Southern Maryland Handicap, Thnksgiving Handicap and Endurance Handicap. Some COO of the thoroughbreds of various ages now at Saratoga and 200 more that are racing in Canada will be available for the Havre de Grace and Laurel Park meetings. The Maryland Jockey Club and Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, will have to provide stabling and profitable employment for all of 1,000. Kentucky will offer the only competition the Pimlico meeting will encounter. The Bowie meeting, up to Thanksgiving day, when winter racing begins at Havana, New Orleans and Tijuana, will have no opposition. The Eastern Shore Handicap is a dash of three quarters. It was instituted in 191J and numbers Hourless, Tippity Witchet, Billy Kelly, Constancy, Careful, Morvich, Blue-mont and Lord Baltimore II., among its winners. The Potomac, a race of one mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds, dates back to 1914. The names of Bondage, Be Frank, Man o War, Lucky Hour and Dunlin are on its winning roster. The Havre de Grace Handicap, one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over, has been won by Roamer, The Finn, Omar Khayyam and Cudgel.
