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; 1 " - i . I 1 I I I | I - , !-| t ; i ■ I r j • • f J I j f - - - MARYLAND TURF NOTES HAVRE DF. GRACE, Md . April 21. Ik€ larson was among the visitors. He came- over from Xew Vork for the after- noons sport. This is his first trip here- since the day he se-nt Half Bock to the post in a maiden race and backed him from .".00 to 1 down to favorite. It was a race for maidens. Joe Dreye-r had the mount that day and got Half Bock all but left at the post, only to beate-n by a head. It spoiled a coup. larson would have won over 00,000 had Half Bock finished first instead of second. Just to show how geyod a horse he- was he came back and was beaten a head by The Finn in the- Belmont Stakes Six more of the Audley Farm horses ar- rived at Bimlieo yesterday. They wvr • motored over in one of the- Meister vans fron. the- Jones farm at Berryville. Va. A special will pull out from Havre el.- Grace for Jamaica on Sunday. The- e-on-: signme-nt will include the stabb-s of J. F Bichardson. J. F. Smith. Jim Iatterson and F. J. Kearns. Joe-key lv Beach parte-d company with J. F. Bichardson and joine-d the ranks of Max Hirsch. Secretary McLennan re-ports the approxi-t mate- value of the- Philadelphia Handican to be run on Saturday, will be ».00o to the winner. Bobert Walden has had the stalls in his stable at Iimlieo bedded down and will ship the horses he is training at his farm at Middleburg to the Hilltop course- in the next lew days. William Jarth purchase-el. from G. K. Hry- son. the mare- Humble. She will be shipped to the Carth farm at Charlottesville- and bred to Blazes. Starter Milton explained the reason that Backbone was not placeei on the- schooling list was because his misbehavior was not at the barrier but on his wav tee the Poa t Florian. a two-year-old in the Whitrn- : tring will join the se-hooling list nnh.il is being taken care of by Bob Freund. Captain Irving, soldier of fortune- and one- of Americas most entertaining lecturers. was the- guest of James W. Mi le-llarid and Jack Hobby. O. I-. Burkhart. who races a small, but ■elect, stable on the- Canadian circuit, was an arrival from Toronto. He te-jxirts that there are a coupl.- of hundred horses at WOodbine- e-ourse already. P. J. Mallon. who is here- for the- maetJag, will make joe-key B. McAtees engagements this year. James Howe Sr. was an arrival. It is his first appc-arane-e- at the Maryland tracks this spring. Mr. Bowe came over from the Brookdale- Farm to inspee-t the big hand of rai e-rs that Fred Hopkins is handling for Harry Iayne- Whitney. Katharine Rankin, whack won a naaaae* of raees on the- Maryland traeks for Mike- Grant, has foaled a line looking colt by Aliabi at Hal Walden farm, at Middleburg. Md. The big string that W. B. S. Martin is looking after for Archibald Barklie- and si era! other enrnera, arrived at Phnatea. They made- the trip from Miami in Rood condition. Iinluded in the string was My Own. whi.-h races for Admiral cary T. Crayson Many of the jumpers stabled at Iimlieo we-re out this morning limbering ajp over the schooling course, which was constructeel this spring. There- are only three- jumps in this e-oui.se- The main field will be thrown anen for arfcooHag next week
