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MRS. BAKERS DERBY HOPE Trainer Stotler Preparing Rock Man and Remedy at Havre for Classic Engagements. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. April 8— J. H. Stotler gave up the idea of trying to race at Bowie this spring and came over to Havre de Grace because he realized a week or ten davs ago that having any of Mrs. Margaret Emerson Bakers two- and three-year-olds ready for the spring sport of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association would be impossible. He felt that he ought to make room for a bunch of horses from one of the winter tracks that might be ready. There arc plenty of such. Kichard Pending found no difficulty in filling the stalls that Stotler so considerately vacated. Stotler will now bend his energy toward preparing his three-year-olds Bock Man and Remedy for the revival of the 0,000 Chesa-I eake, which will be the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Associations best April special exclusively for three-year-olds. The Chesapeake will be run toward the end of the month. As in the past, it will be at one mile and a sixteenth. Stotler holds that it will not do to treat the Preakniss Stakes and Kentucky Derby pretensions of Bock Man and Bemedy too lightly. Bock Man, which won the first race of last springs Bowie meeting, a sprint of one-half mile, for two-year-old maidens, and then came here to defeat Canter, Fiddlesticks a.nd some others in a renewal of the 0,000 Aberdeen, is growing bigger and broader every day and running mure and more lik* a three-year-old that will carry on over as great distances as American horses are asked to go. Through his sire, Trap Bock, he is a grandson of R» ck Sand. Bock Mans dam was Lydia A., a daughter of Sir Wilfred and Adelinette. an imported daughter of Melton. Through Sir Wilfred and Ossary, Lydia A. is descended from Ormonde. All of this is distance running blood. Bock Man demonstrated last spring that he had plenty of foot. The brilliant performances in Lower California of Carlaris, an imported son of Pha-laris. have heartened S otler and Harry Monies ai regarding Bemedy, which is an imported son of Apothecary. Bemedy was fast in work at Bowie last spring, a winner at Saratoga last August and something of a worker at Bowie in March. Jle has been on this side of the Atlantic since the middle of the summer before last and should be thoroughly acclimatized. He tame over about the same time Carlaris did.
