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. " HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES t - n HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. April 20. f Jake Jacoby, by the Star Shoot staliion 1 0 Hiklur, the property of R. P. Marshall, is s h among ihe big band of maiden two-year-olds ; a entered in the first race tomorrow. e Clarence Turner reports that the mares on i his Hazel ValDy Farm at New Market, Md., , s have all wintered well. The Phalaris stallion j l Philippi, which is standing at Turners farm, d has been booked to ten mares this spring. o Immediately following the close of the ■ Havre de Grace meeting E. J. Salt will load the Lawson horses for shipment to the t Woodbine couise in Toronto. 1 J. McGee has cancelled his stalls at Pim-lico and will ship the six horses he is racing I at Havre de Grace direct to Churchill Downs I at the conclusion of this meeting. The funeral of the late jockey O. Bourassa will be held in Montreal on Saturday. L. G. Bedwell, who is operating a fleet of • vans here, has arranged to ship four vanloads 1 of the W. Garth stable from here to New s York. The conclusion of the meeting he will I attend to the shipment of the nine horses in of the Hal Price Headley stable from here to Pimlico. Barbed Wire, which was claimed by W. K. * Levoring last fall, has been converted into a * steeplechaser. Jockey R. Workman left for New York to join the division of Harry Payne Whitney a stable that will take part in the Jamaica j meeting. Jockey C. Landolt received a wire that his mother was seriously ill at her home in f Louisville and made a hurried departure for , Kentucky. Mortimer Mahoney accompanied Louis An-gevine over from Bowie for the afternoons sport. Both were busy among the horsemen during the afternoon, interesting them in the . coming meeting at Blue Bonnets. Harry Giddings was unsuccessful in his " mission here to buy a few well-bred fillies. His idea was to race them this year and next , spring to breed them to Cudgel. He returned j to Toronto tonight, but will be back for the . sale of the E. F. Whitney racers at Pimlico. j George Conway, who has been ill for a couple of days, resumed his duties as trainer of the Glenn Riddle establishment. Conway t has been going along rather slowly with , Crusader and it is doubtful if the son of f Man o War will go to the post for a month j or six weeks yet. J. McGee, who is shipping his band back to Louisville, acquired by private purchase from F. H. Smith yesterday the sprinter Sunsard. It is understood that the two-year-old Clubhouse and the three-year-old Widely Known, [ which were purchased by M. P. Murnan, will be shipped to Kentucky and turned over to Pat Dunne, who will train them for their new owner. Ben Reuben of New York and Mannie Greenberg. the veteran newspaperman of San . Francisco, were the guests of E. P. Howard j and John I. Day. They came over from New ; York to attend the Island Farm sale. Select was claimed from W. Garth by W. A. Taylor for ,000. Kenneth T. Dawes, acting for the Mount j Royal Stable, in which he and several Mon- , treal sportsmen are interested, acquired, by ] private purchase this afternoon, the two-year- old filly Wrap, by Traprock — Cloak, by Dis- 1 guise. She was turned over to Harry Gid- • dings, who will race her this year. Next spring Wrap will be bred to Cudgel. In her , winning race at Bowie Wrap ran half a mile in ATM. John Boon, who has been acting as outside man for secretary Joseph McLennan, left for New York to be on hand for the opening of the Jamaica meeting. Among the distinguished visitors who came i to attend the sale of Island Farm horses was Charlie Brossman of Chillicothe, Ohio, where j he maintains a small stock farm. Brossman ] hopes some day to breed another Imp. He | trained that famous mare for all of her im- portant engagements. | Col. P. T. Chinn, on his way from New ; York to Kentucky, stopped off for the after- , noon. He was much impressed with the rac- j ing here. Colonel Chinn predicts that the ; Kentucky Derby will resolve itself into a bat- j tie between Reigh Count, representing the | West, and Petee-Wrack, representing the , East. Two claims were found in the claiming ; box in the sixth race. Morocco went to C. McCorkle for ,000, and G. R. Bryson took Fire Fairy for ,000.
