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RAIN AND MJDAT HAVRE Good Crowd Present Despite Un-propitious Racing Conditions. Yankeo Trinccss Defeats Flying Cloud In Stirring Finish Ballot Brush Best In Sophomore Purse. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., Sept. 29. This was mud runners day at Havre de Grace. The rain, which began during the night, continued all day, changing track conditions and forcing a revision of the prospective winners that were selected to score over a fast track. A majority of the races fell to well-backed horses and interesting contests were in order during the afternoon. Despite the unpropitious weather and track conditions, a goodly sized crowd was present. A stirring finished came in the fourth race, a mile and a sixteenth claiming race, when the Cosden filly, Yankee Princess, beat Flying Cloud by a neck after a long, hard stretch drive. Flying Cloud was the one to make the pace and he led his opponents to the eighth post where Yankee Princess, coming on the outside, caught and headed him. Bruening rode like a demon through the stretch run and is about the best finisher of any of the light weights riding here. Lunetta was third, beaten two lengths for second place. There were only four starters in the Sophomore Purse, but it furnished a stirring contest Much Ado beat the others away from the post when the barrier was sprung and rounding the first turn was carried wide. Straightened out on the backstretch Long sent him to the front and then took him under slight restraint. Wallace sent Floating On in behind him and waited until making the turn into the homestretch before letting her down. When called on, Floating On moved up with a determined challenge, but in the final drive Ballot Brush, the favorite had it on her and had a lengths advantage over Floating On, which baat Drumbeat a like distance for second place. Roi Craig proved an easy winner in the Brandywine steeplechase of two miles. In the early running. Verdant Valley and Fred-den Rock drew away from their opponents and raced like a team until the second time around when both bagan to tire and Roi Craig .moving up with a rush took command and retained it to the end where he led the favorite Molra by three lengths and a half. The latter was guided wide the entire way and covered a lot more ground than any horse in the race. A field of 14 platers went to the post in the third, a three-quarters dash fashioned to suit the ordinary class of horses. It was a good betting race with Sea Sand having a slight call. The latter made good when he won in easy fashion by a length and a half from Blackstone. Mabel K., was third. In the early running Monastery started out like a winner. He went to the front and with Mabel K. following him made the pace to the stretch turn where he tired. Sea Sand then moved up and taking command was never headed the remainder of the way. J. P. Smith saddled another winner for W. S. Kilmer when he sent Saratoga Maje to the post in the first race, a dash of five and a half furlongs for maiden two-year-olds. This good looking son of Old Koenig proved the easiest sort of a winner. In the early stages, Wallace indulged Pogonip and Volante with the task of making the pace but when he got ready he let Saratoga Maje down and the latter ran away from his opponents to win with plenty in reserve. Volante beat Laddie Buck five lengths for second place.
