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! ! j I | ! I I HAVRE STAKE VALUES RISE • * Increase in Monetary Returns to Winners of Fall Fixtures. — i Potomac, Havre de Grace and Eastern Short Handicaps Each Boosted From 9,000 to #ir..nno Added. • HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., May 18.— Stake and purse values are rising at Havre de Grace. The Aberdeen, the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Associations best spring stake for two-year-olds, was a 0,000 added money event in April, as was also the Chesapeake, a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and over. Previously these had been ,000 specials. | Next September the values of the three oldest and most popular of Havre de Grace autumn annuals, the Potomac. Havre de j j Grace and Eastern Shore Handicaps, will be advanced from 0,000 in added money | I each to 5,000. This announcement was I ; made today by Joseph McLennan, clerk of the course here, on the authority of Edward , , Burke, general manager of the racing. Mr. ! McLennan has given up most of his Cana-! ■ dian summer and fall work and will confine | his activities in the future mainly to Havre , de Grace and Bowie racing. He will make j : the Havre de Grace September program and publish it some time in August, while east- ; ern racing stables are at Saratoga. There will be an appreciable advance in purse | values and a particular effort will be made to bring down the smartest steeplechasers of eastern racing. McLennan ought to be successful in the promotion of September steeplechasing. Cross country racing about New York does not appear to have much of an appeal after the finish of the Belmont Park September meeting, which always proceeds the Havre de Grace opening. The steeplechase course , of the local plant is one of the best in the United States from every angle. In a I soil naturally adapted to the production of fine grass James Ross, the resident super-j intendent, has succeeded in developing a sod of which an English or Irish track superintendent would be proud. Havre de Graces fall stake races are rich in tradition. The Potomac Handicap, a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds, brought Man o War here in September 1920, to defeat Wildair, Blazes, and Paul Jones, in a brilliantly contested race and establishing under the staggering burden of 138 pounds and in muddy going, a new track record of 1 :44*t . This was Man o Wars second and last appearance in Maryland and his last race but one. It was here that Com. J. K. L. Ross, of Montreal, agreed to race his four-year-old champion Sir Barton against the super horse at Windsor, Ontario, the coming October 12, for a purse of 5,000 and ,000 in gold plate. Man o War defeated Sir Barton at Windsor Continued on sixteenth page. HAVRE STAKE VALUES RISE Continued from first pace. i and was retired to the stud. His previous | Maryland appearance had been in the Preak-ness of 1920 which he won easily, beating j Upset, Wildair, King Thrush, Donnaconna, | Blazes, On Watch, St. Allan and Fairway. : Man o Wars Potomac was run on a Satur-i day. Such was the fame and popularity of I the horse at the time he held a levy at the stable of Samuel D. Riddle with Mr. Riddle and Mrs. Riddle receiving for him the fol- lowing day. Several thousand ixrsons mo-! tored from the outlying parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware to have a look at the horse of the century. Sir Barton defeated his stablemates, Billy Kelly and Milkmaid, in the Potomac of 1919. Winners of renewals since 1920 have been Tryster, Lucky Hour, Dunlin and Donaghee. The Havre de Grace handicap renewal of I last year developed a lively drive between Donaghee, which broke a leg schooling for steeplechasing here in April and was de-; troyed. Spot Cash and Valador, Valador winning under 104 pounds. Thoroughbreds of continent-wide reputation that won other Havre de Grace Handicap, gallops at one mile and eighth, were Enchantment. Bunting, Captain Alcocl;, The Porter, Cudgel. Omar Khayyam, The Finn, IToaimf and A. lams Express. In 1919 cudgel licked Exterminator and his own stable companion, Sir Barton. In Mil The Finn defeated Spur and Borrow. In 1U15 Roamer licked Slumber U. and Strora-boli. The Eastern Shore, a sprint of three-quarters, is Havre de Graces best autumn special for two-year-olds. Single Foot, which had won the Aberdeen revival last spring, won last falls I-:. 1st, in Shore to the glory of the Maryland thoroughbred industry. Single Foot being a Baltimore County product. Earlier winters w.re Tranid, llourless, Tlppity Witch. t. Billy Kelly, Constancy. Careful, Morvich, Rluemont and lx rd Baltimore II.
