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j HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES | HAVRE DE GRACE. Md.. April 20. W. E. Burke is here doing missionary work for the Thomcliffe and Devonshire tracks. He reports the outlook points to there being a shortage of horses on the Canadian circuit this year. William Midgley has taken up the plater Washington, which has been turned out at the Millvale Farm near Pimlico since last fall. B. B. Rice will ship his horses from here to Akron next week. Several stables arrived at Pimlico today. Among them were R. J. Walden with fifteen of the A. H. Morris horses from their winter training quarters at Middleburg, Md. Howard I.*wis is duo with the J. E. Widener string of steeplechasers tomorrow. 1 K. E. Hitts string, which got in from I Virginia last week, is made up of ten two-year-olds, three three-year-olds and two four-year-olds. E. S. Welter had a big band of two-year-.olds at the barrier at Pimlico this morning. , including those of Hitt, Joseph Murphy and ! William Garth. | Paul Ciceri, a well-known Canadian sports- j man, was an arrival from Toronto. He is • here to purchase a couple of horses to carry I I his colors on the Canadian circuit during ; I the summer. I Thomas Gorman, secretary of the Con-naught ! Park Jockey Club, returned t New I York last night to confer with Tex Rickard in reference to the hockey team which will play at the new Madison Square Garden I j next winter. Gorman has been engaged to 1 manage the team, which will represent New York in the hockey league-Two I I 1 horses changed hands via the claiming route in the seventh race on Saturday. | W. Wick took the winner Over Fire for SL500 while P. B. Codd took Altissimo from W. R. Padgett for ,000. t Frank Garrett will take up Hildur for R, P. Marshall after the Pimlico meeting. | Hildur, by Star Shoot — Shelby B*lle. Dy : i Knight Errant, is making the season at his I ! owners farm near Pittsburgh, and has been bred to fourteen mares this spring. Hildur lias a couple of crosses of Trenton on his dams side. I Drumbeat pulled up lame in his race on Saturday and he will be on the shelf for some time yet. | Eddie Ambrose will leave for New York at the conclusion of the meeting to join the fctable that Harry Feustel is training for Senator Cooper. W. P. Lurch was a late arrival from Ben-ning ■ with the Admiral Grayson and Sam Ross horses. Matt Brady was another arrival i from the Washington course with the J. B. Davis racers. Richard Carman got in from California with fifteen horsea a majority of which are the property of J. H. Roeseter. Shelby Lurch has arranged to ship the horses he wintered at Bc-milng to Jamaica t some day this week. ♦
