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EXTERMINATOR AT HAVRE Great Old Gelding Will Not Be Trained This Year, but May Race During Winter of 1926. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 3.— Exterminator, winner of a Kentucky Derby, four Saratoga Cups, three Pimlico Autumn Cups, several Toronto and Ontario Cups, a couple of Jockey Club Gold Cups, a Latonia Cup and a Harford Handicap, is the most distinguished member of the thcroughbrid colony now assembled at Havre de Grace. Exterminator came down from Bingham-ton last week with a bunch of two-year-olds by Sun Briar. Allumeur and other stallions, which J. P. Smith will take up when he arrives from Washington with Sunny Man, Sunsard, Sun Circle and Wrillis Sharpe Kilmers other promising three-year-olds. Exterminator is not here for racing. The old fellow will, through the coming summer and fall, take a little regular exercise and father the younger horses of the Kilmer string. As a foster father Old Bones is a huge success, notwithstanding he is a gelding with I nothing of his own to father and without j hope of posterity. He naturally takes to ; young horses and, having more sense than j most men, he possesses the knack of teach- i ing them what they should know. If the j tendons behind, which forced the retirement of Exterminator last year, straighten and ■ harden, the old fellow will be put in training again and sent to Tijuana for the winter j meeting of 1025-26. His objective will be I the Coffroth Handicap of 1926. If Exterminator should be fortunate enough to win the Coffroth of 1926 and follow such a victory with success in the Ti- I juana Cup, he may surpass Zev and Man o War as the greatest of American money winners. J. P. Smith, one of the most capable American trainers of the younger school, has not i expressed an opinion yet as to the probability of training the old gelding again, but James W. McClelland, Roy Waldron and other horsemen now at Havre de Grace believe he ! will. For the sort of leg trouble Extcrminaor ! has suffered he has had the right treatment, ; i. e., rest. More rest, of course, will help him. His chance of a great comeback is i better than the average because of his level ! head. Nothing worries Exterminator. He just plods along at a sober dignified gait, always the gentleman.
