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RICH STAKES CLOSE SOON April 6th Last Day for Entering Havre de Grace Fixtures Four 10000 Ilaces Harford and Philadelphia Handicaps and Chesapeake and Aber ¬ deen Stakes on Schedule HAVRE DE GRACE Md April 1 Gen ¬ eral manager Edward Burke of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association wishes horsemen to remember that April 6 is the day nominations must be made for the four stakes that will have an added money value of 10000 each gross about 15 000 apiece and pay their winners about 10 000 each to be revived here in the course ot the last fortnight of April These stakes are the Harford Handicap threeyearolds and over threequarters to be run April 15 Philadelphia Handicap threeyearolds and over one mile and a sixteenth to be run April 20 Aberdeen Stakes twoyearolds four furlongs and a half to be run April 24 and the Chesapeake Stakes threeyearolds one mile and a sixteenth to be run April 27 The Harford Handicap will be the saluta ¬ tory feature the Chesapeake Stakes the final the Harford Handicap winners Ten Point Springboard Tea Caddy Billy Kelly Ex ¬ terminator Star Master Blazes Flintstone Noah Triton Scapa Flow Croyden Shuffle Along Leopardess to beat Philadelphia Handicap winners have been Ten Point Slumber II Pennant Hauberk Billy Kelly Boniface Exterminator Spot Cash Leopardess Edisto Singlefoot and Canter Capable and famous horses that have been humbled in its several revivals since 1913 have been Adams Express Shackle ton Flittergold Waterbass Leochares Star Master Billy Kelly Star Voter Paul Jones Flintstone New Hampshire Spot Cash Canter and Scapa Flow FlowThe The Aberdeen Stakes most generously en downed of Maryland spring annuals for two yearolds has afforded opportunities for George Smith which afterward won a Ken ¬ tucky Derby Tippity Witchet Ormonda the mother of Osmand Paul Jones a Kentucky Derby and Suburban Handicap winner Care ¬ ful one of the fastest and gamest mares of her time Rock Man the smartest youngster of Maryland spring racing in 1925 also Sin ¬ glefoot Club Steak Rose Eternal and Click ClickFor For years Chesapeake Stake revivals have served as tests of the merits of Preakness and Kentucky Derby candidates Until last year it had an earlier date on the Harford calen ¬ dar Its running was pushed on to getaway day to enable more horsemen to get more good colts and fillies ready for it in bad seasons The impending revival very likely will bring to the post a bigger and better field than any the past has drawn because of the extraordinary mildness of this years March Save for a storm or so the weather has been like May or early June Of this good weather eastern horsemen have taken full advantage If the weather is as good through the last fortnight of April nobody will kick kickPaul Paul Jones unexpectedly beaten in the Chesapeake Stakes inaugural by Sandy Beal went out to Louisville and defeated Upset On Watch Cleopatra and upward of a dozen other good threeyearolds in the Kentucky Derby of 1920 Wildair finished third Care ¬ ful licked Star Voter and Nancy Lee in 1921 Bunting trimmed Lucky Hour in 1922 Barbary Bush and The Clown bowed TO Wilderness in 1923 Winners since that year have been Nautical Sweeping Away Rock man Whiskery and Bobashela Whiskery won the FiftyThird Kentucky Derby after defeating Sir Harry a Coffroth Handicap winner and Triton in the Cheasapeake Canter and Display the last named Preak ¬ ness victor followed Rockman home homeHeavy Heavy nominations are expected for these various stakes particularly for the Chesa ¬ peake and the Aberdeen There are plenty of horses of class of mature years but more good threeyearolds and promising twoyear olds than racing has had in years The nomination fee in each will be 25 the start ¬ ing fee 100 The Havre de Grace meeting which will follow the April meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association at Prince Georges Park Bowie will be marked by a daily distribution of 11000 It will run twelve days The last of Marylands spring meetings for the current season will begin at Pimlico April 29 under the auspices of the Maryland Jockey Club to run thirteen days
