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I HAVRE STAKES CLOSE SOON ♦- Four 0,000 Fixtures Open for Entries Until April 3. » Chesapeake F.xpected to Attract Leading Cn miniates for the Preakness I and the Derby. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. March .",1— The Harford Agricultural and Breeders Associations four spring stakes, all of 0,000 added, will close with general manager Kdward Burke here Saturday, April 1 These specials are the Harford and Philadelphia Handicaps for three-year-olds and over, at three-quarters mile and one mile and a sixteenth, respectively ; the Aberdeen, for two-year-olds, at four and a half furlongs, and the Chesa- | peake for three-year-olds exclusively, at one | mile and a sixteenth. The Harford will be run the opening day i and the Philadelphia will be the closing fea- | ture. The subscription in each of the four , will be 5 and the starting fee 00. The four are expected to draw more entries than any group of Havre de Grace spring stakes have attracted in the past. ORIGINALLY ,000 RACKS. Originally these Were ,000 races. The Chesapeake and Aberdeen were raised in value last spring. The Aberdeen and Chesapeake will be midseason attractions of a meeting of twelve days that will be characterized by the daily distribution of about 5,000. The Havre de Grace meeting will follow that of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association which begins at Prince Georges Park, Bowie, tomorrow. It will be followed by a May meeting of two weeks at Pimlico. The Chesapeake will be the outstanding feature of the impending meeting. More than ever it will thhs year serve as a Preakness and Kentucky Derby trial test, particularly for eastern candidates. Bowie racing may contribute Canter and Timmara to the Chesapeake. These are the most forward three-year-olds training in Maryland for the Preakness and Derby, with the possible exception of Penstick, which has been training over Com. J. K. L. Boss private training track at Boss farm in Howard County, Md., Penstick, a home-bred son of Cudgel and Pennsylvania, will make his 1926 debut here. PHILADELPHIA PROSPECTS. Formidable prospects for the Phialdelphia ! training in Maryland are Hallucination, i Single Foot, Joy Smoke and Prince of Bourbon. Hallucination, a son of Fitzwilliam, was bred by Commander Ross in Canada, at Vercheres farm. He did not race last season, but lost only two races in 1923 and 1924. Single Foot, which won the Aberdeen and Kast»rn Shore renewals of 1924, and also a National at Laurel and a Walden at Pimlico, is at Bowie. Joy Smoke, winner of last falls revivals of the 5,000 Washington at Laurel and the 0,000 Thanksgiving at Bowie, is training at Pimlico. Prince of Bourbon, son of Prince | Palatine and Forever, began the season with victory here last spring and won a Prince Georges Handicap at Bowie last November. He is Havre de Grace3 own Philadelphia hope. He wintered here under the eye of Roy Waldron and is well along toward racing condition.
