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* « i ] j J ! ! ; ■ ! • ! J | I I i j | I | | j i j | | ; ; | : I i j ! | i j ■ j ; i I i • I j STARS AT HAVRE DE GRACE ! i Single Foot Expected to Show to Good Advantage. » 9 By Hisself Candidate in Chesapeake Stakes 1 — AV. J. Salmons Hopes Centered in Devonshire. ■ - t ■ ■ HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 22.— Single Foot, Maryland-bred son of Wrack and Vir- t ginia L., and juvenile hero of last years * Havre de Grace racing, bids fair to make J something of a reputation here again this spring. Single Foot, with St Valentine, Harlan, two or three other mature horses and three two-year-olds, is in the string that u Harry Rites is training for J. Edwin Griffith, t of Baltimore. Mr. Griffith bred Single Foot and his stable companions at his Griffwood ] Farm in Baltimore County, only a mile or p so from the Pimlico race course. | Single Foot was easily the fastest horse of any age that trained at Bowie through Feb- j ruary and March. He is probably the fittest l three-year-old now at the Harford Agricul- ] tural and Breeders Association track and is pointing for the renewal April 29 of the 0,000 Chesapeake. On the showing he j makes in the Chesapeake depends his spring ; campaign. If he comes through with credit ■ he will bear the silks of Mr. Griffith in the | renewals in May of the Preakness and the | Kentucky Derby. That Single Foot, provided he keeps his i health, will make good is reasonably cer- tain. He showed speed last spring and sum- -mer in the Aberdeen, in the Belmont Park Futurity, in which he finished third to , Mother Goose and Stimulus, and in the | Eastern Shore Handicap. At Pimlico in No- t vember he shouldered 117 pounds and won i the Walden Stakes, defeating Young Martin, . Primrose, Battle Field, Senalado, Courageous, ■ Candy Kid, Cloudland, Campfire Tales, All Gone, On Top, By Hisself and Beatrice, running a mile in 1 :39%. The best of Mr. Griffiths two-year-olds is Canter, son of Wildair and Virginia L., and half-brother of Single Foot. St. Valentine won at Bowie. Harlan, a three-year-old that won at Laurel last fall, did not win at Bowie, but he showed plenty of speed in works. The star of the stable of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, of Philadelphia, that will take part in the local meeting, is By His-| self, son of Man o War and Oollette, by Collar. By Hisself probably will make his first start in the Chesapeake, a 0,000 race of one mile and a sixteenth for three-year-j olds exclusively. After that he will train for the Preakness at Pimlico and the Kentucky Derby. By Hisself, a home-bred colt, was not one of the fastest of last years two-year-olds in dashes of five and a half furlongs and three-quarters. But he came into his own when the two-year-olds began to run over longer distances in the autumn and won at Yonkers the Autumn Days and Ardsley handicaps. In the Ardsley he ran a mile in 1 :39% under 115 pounds, beating Campfire; Tales, Pique, Goldbeater, Star Lore, Bright | I Steel, Zuker, Despot, Judge Fuller and Re- , pulse. Star Lore had previously won the Junior Champion, Aqueducts two-year-old race of one mile. Samuel D. Riddles Ameri- Continued on twelfth i :tce. STARS AT HAVRE DE GRACE Continued from first page. can Flag was the only other Man o War colt out last year comparable with By Hisself. The Jeffords horses wintered at Mr. Riddles Glen Riddle Farm in Worcester County, Maryland, under the eye of Robert A. Smith. They have had plenty of preparatory work and are ready for the colors. Smith brought here with By Hisself, Cockney, Goldpiece, Lightship, Flagship, Florence Nightingale, Golden Spire, Stormalong, Ktoile dOr, Ar-gyle. Orange Pekoe, Golden Wings and Golden Locks. Mrs. Jeffords bred Goldpiece, Golden Wings, Golden Spire, Golden Locks, Florence Nightingale, Etoile dOr, Lightship and Flagship. Lightship, daughter of Man o War and Smoky Lamp, and Florence Nightingale, daughter of Man o War and The Nurse, are her Oaks candidates. Walter J. Salmons candidates for the Chesapeake Stakes are Devonshire, Contract and Ballot Box. Devonshire and Contract are also in the Kentucky Derby. Ballot Box did not start last year. Contract, a son of Jim Gaffney and Antella. did and acquitted himself well on several occasions. After winning at Devonshire Park in the spring he came down to Saratoga in August to finish second to Maid at Arms in a condition race of five-eighths and beat Finland and Single Foot. At Laurel in October he finished second to Swinging in a dash of five and one-half furlongs, beating T«iid at Arms and later he defeated Saratoga Maje, Courageous, Sun Tess, Dangerous and some others. Devonshire, an imported son of Gainsborough and Fortuna, by Spearmint, started three times in 1924 without winning, but he showed plenty of speed in his first and second races. In his first he finished second to Sunny i Man and Goldbeater at Aqueduct and in his j second he was beaten by a head over the Vonkers course by Bright Steel. Devonshire I is the colt of which Mr. Salmon expects the most. He paid 3,000 for him in England ! while he was still a yearling because of the | stoutness of his pedigree. Gainsborough and Spearmint, his sire and maternal grand-I sire, were famous long distance runners. Spearmint, an Epsom Derby and Grand ; Prix de Paris winner, probably was one of I Englands most notable racers. Devonshire , won his first start of 1925 impressively. There was nothing wrong with Devonshire i last year. Mr. Salmon saved him after giving him a little educational racing to the , end that he might have a fair chance for | development. These colts, with Primrose and | Trip Lightly, promising three-year-old fillies, I are among the twelve Salmon hopes of vari- ous ages Thomas J. Healey has brought down I from Belmont Park for the April racing of I the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Asso-I ciation. Salmon has six youngsters in the 0,000 , Aberdeen— Briar Broom, Flight of Time, Lemnos, Gavotte, Airlie and Martha Wash-| ington. The only bigger nominator in Havre j de Graces two-year-old special is Harry Payne Whitney with eleven. Lemnos is an I imported son of Lemonora, another Grand I Prix winner.
