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i Here and There 2 3 on the Turf 4 Havre de Grace Racing. 6 Best Horses Appearing. 7 Attacks on Miami Sport. Master Charlies Trials. 1 Racing has come to its second 1925 meeting in the East. The Havre de Grace course j 3 of the Harford Association has begun its thirteen days meeting, and the enthusiasm that ■ marked the beginning of the new year on the , turf in the East at the Bowie track was multiplied at the delightful racing ground on the banks of the Susquehanna. Before this meeting is old a new line will have been obtained on the youngsters that are to perform in the two year old division, while a line will also be obtained on the three year olds that will later try for the big races, and there are many of them, of that age division. The horses are fit. Havre de Grace never had a cleaner health bill at this time of the year • and the open spring has made it possible to 1 have a greater number of horses ready for the fray than ever before. There is an increased interest in the sport and 1925 will see I many new recruits to the turf, and, as a matter of fact, the prospects could hardly be brighter. And, in addition to the flat runners ; that will come out for the first time, the meeting will afford a first look at the jumpers I that are to play an important part in this picturesque branch of racing. No steeplechase was carded for the first day of the meeting, but before the end of the thirteen days there will be ample opportunity for them t to show their worth. Havre de Grace, Pimlico and Laurel are the three tracks in Maryland that have steeple-chasing - as a part of the program, and this same Maryland racing does much to keep alive an interest in that branch. For 1925 there are more jumpers preparing, or are ready, than for many a year, and the racing through the field should take on an entirely new impoitance. Just as there were many who worked against the opening of the race meeting at Miami, there , still remain others, with personal interests, who will endeavor to throw obstaebs in the way of continued success for the racing of Southern Florida, but their efforts in this ; direction will undoubtedly be just so much ! lost motion, but it appears to be inevitable and it is surely reprehensible that any men. ■ tailing themselves sportsmen, should seek to 1 break down such racing as was offered at the initial meeting at the Hialeah course. There are such men, unfortunately, and it is doubly unfortunate that they are men who have all along leen vitally interested in the sport. They :ire jealous of the success that came to Miami, • and in their greet! they would break it down. • They have failed to offer a counter racinir r attraction of a quality that could compete with the southern Florida meeting, and to serve their selfish ends they would endeavor r to harass the new course. It is a vicious cam paign and one that can hope for no support from any fair minded turfmen. It is a cam • paign of which any fair-minded sportsman 1 would be ashamed, and there does not appear i* to be any chance for the proposed attacks on 1 the Florida racing to bring about any results. The racing, as it was conducted at Miami, , was a credit to the American turf, and the I assurances that have been received for the e meeting of 1926 would indicate that it will P be much more important. But there will always be some of these e parasites of the turf who will ever seek to j , ; ! ■ 1 • • r r • 1 i* 1 , I e P e j befoul their own nest*, for any attack on reputable racing can never be classed as anything else when they come from those associated with the sport. Racing has come baek to Florida in a fash ion that demands the support of all who would have the turf endure, and there is no place for those who, for selfish motives, would seek to harass the Miami Jockey Club. Latest report of the workouts of William Daniels Master Charlie would indicate that the champion two-year-old of last year will be brought back to the races by Andrew Blakely well able to take his place among the best three year olds of this year. Early in the year the imported colt went slightly amiss but long since he has been cured of that temporary lameness and it is doubtful if there is an eligible for the Preakness Stakes or the Kentucky Derby that is further advanced at this time than the son of Lord Archer. It is planned to ship Master Charlie to Havre de Grace within a few days and his first import ant engagement will be in the 0,000 Chesa-? peake Stakes at a mile and a sixteenth, to be decided over the Harford Association track Wednesday, April 29, the closing day. In that race Master Charlie will be one of the top weights, under the conditions, by rea son of the penalties he will pick up for his successes of last year, but he carried 130 pounds to victor- in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga and all through last year he was always required to give away w?ight to good ones and still he finished at the top of the heap. Reports have been received of the gallops of this colt day by day since March 17, and these reports show steady improvement until he seems to be ready at this time to go to the races. He has been galloping soundly and his workout of April 9 was a mile and an eighth in 1:57%. That is not exactly phenomenal work, for such a route, but the remarkable part of the work was that he ran an eighth in :11% and the final quarter in :24%. This makes Master Charlie loom up as a three year-old well calculated to carry on from his great two-year-cld accomplishments and, at this time, there is no more eligible colt for the big races of the year. Frederick Johnsons Quatrain, winner of the New Orleans Handi cap and the Louisiana Derby, has proved his three year old worth in actual contests, but Master Charlie is ready to prove his worth and, when he goes to the post in the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre d? Grace, the race would have much additional interest if Mr. Johnsons colt was also a starter. In the meantime both Captain Hal and Lee O. Cotner continue to train in a manner to suggest that they will be worthy representa tives of Kentucky in the Derby and there are several others that have also shown progress in their preparation that suggests real greatness. Altogether the three year-old divi sion promises to bring about racing worthy of ! the high values that are offered for that age division. Beginning with the 0,000 Chesapeake Stakes, to be run at the end of the Havre de Grace meeting, there will follow the Preakness , Stakes, with 0,00J added, the Kentucky | Derby of like value, and the Withers Stakes and Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. All of these big racs are to be decided at dates far enough apart to afford a chance for a cham pion to meet every engagement and the man with the champion this year, will have a greater meney winning opportunity than ever j before in the buttery of the American turf.
