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WHITNEY MARYLAND PLANS » Stable to Have Large Representation at Havre de Grace Track. » Approximately Twenty Head From Brook-dale Farm to Join Those Racing at Bowie. ♦ HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. April 10.— Last year, thanks to the prowess of Mother Goose, the Belmont Park Futurity winner. Swinging. Maud Muller, Candy Kid and a host of others, James Rowe put the racing stable of Harry Payne Whitney back on top as the money-winning aggregation of American thoroughbred racing, displacing the stable of Harry F. Sinclair, which had supplanted it in 1921 and held command for three consecutive years. Determined that the Whitney establishment shall not again surrender its place of eminence, Rowe will seek in Maryland this month and next to gain an edge on his trainer rival. Samuel C. Hildreth. The latter may not race any Ran-cocas horses at Havre de Grace through the spring meeting of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association, which will begin April 15, to continue through to April 29. He may not have anything at Pimlico. Rowe will summon to Havre de Grace next week the twenty odd Whitney horses readied up at Benning. Fred Hopkins is racing at Bowie and will join them with fifteen or twenty others of various ages he has been training at Mr. Whitneys Brookdale Farm in Monmouth County, N. J., over a seven-eighths course that cannot be beaten anywhere in the country. The Whitney stable will be the biggest that will participate in the Harford Associations meeting. Its various members, horses that wintered at Brookdale as well as at Benning, are farther advanced toward genuine racing condition than any other Whitney groups have been so early in a year in the course of the last ten years. The Jersey winter was as pleasant as the Maryland and Virginia winter. Jerseys March training weather was as kindly as the weather Bowie and Benning horsemen enjoyed. It is g.-neraly conceded that the race for this years stable leadership will be between Whitney and Sinclair and Rowe realizes that he must hustle. Hildreth is better fixed as to matured campaigners than he is. And last year Mr. Sinclair bought for a Continued on sixteenth page. j 1 e l j | I , ! WHITNEY MARYLAND PLANS i Continued from first page. lump sum twenty Whitney two-year-olds which Hildreth picked with a keen eye, the keenest in the sport. The Rancocas Stable is weak in three-year-olds. The Whitney establishment, probably, has the call in that direction. If Hildreth picked as good young material as he left, Rowe will have to win through superiority in the field of three-year-old racing and of the quality of his three-year-olds he only has an inkling now. Barring Candy Kid, which won a renewal of the Breeders Futurity at Iexington in September, he showed no colt of big stake winning eiuality. And Candy Kid will have to improve a lot if he is to show himself better this year than the other colts and fillies of his age. The old horses Rowe will bring this way for participation in the Harford and Philadelphia handicaps. ,000 races of three-quarters and one mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and over, are Flagstaff. Transmute and Whiskalong. The three-year-olds he will point with Candy Kid for the 0,000 Chesapeake, another dash of one mile and a sixteenth, are Backbone Coronation, Courageous. Overall, The Bat, Mother Goose, Maud Muller and Swinging. Transmute, a son of Broomstick and Traverse, might have won one of the big three-year-old specials of 1924 if he had been i lucky. He was taken sick inopportunely last spring. He was good again in the Lawrence Realization, which was renewed at Belmont Park in September, but young Ivan Parke rode without judgment, making his run too far from home. Transmute, probably, is the best horse that will bear the blue and brown in the Philadelphia Handicap here and, later, try for the 5,000 Dixie Purse at Iimlico. Mother loose, on last years form, looks the most dangerous of the Whitney three-year-olds. But fillies are undependable in spring. Not imprebably Rowe will find among the colts, better Chesapeake. Ireak-ness and Kentucky Derby prospects. Maybe Backbone, a son of Whisk Broom II. and Stamina, is the destined Whitney crack. Bae-kbone won the first race in which he started at Saratoga. Blue Ridge. The Bat, American Flag, Adolphus, Silver Fox and Xight March finished behind him. He started only twice after that. The Bat. a swift worker, by Broomstick - Fly by Night II., starteel five times without winning. Coronation, a son of Johren and Inaugural, did not race. But Johren, which afterward won the Latonia Derby. Suburban Handicap, Belmont Stakes. Saratoga Cup and Lawrence Realization, came to Maryland in the spring of 1918 an unheard of maiden. Coronation is a half-brother of the 25,000 Whiskaway, also, of Flags, Panoply, Flagstaff, Crocus and Initiate. Courageous, a son of Whisk Broom II. and Courage, started nine times, winning a renewal of the Pim-lico Autumn Homebred Stakes and two other races. He beat Coldpiece, Chrysalis, Overall and Slow and Easy in the Homebred. Overall starteel three times without winning. A son of Peter Pan and Frillery, Overall is a three parts brother of Bunting, winner of the Chesapeake Stakes and the Havre de Grace Handicaps here in 1922. There is a mystery about these Whitney colts impending Havre de Grace racing, probably, will dispell. Hopkins may develop the 0,000 Aberdeen winner at Bowie. But. not improbably, Rowe will bring from Brookdale smarter youngsters than he has entrusted to young Hopkins.
