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CHESAPEAKE STAKES RENEWAL SATURDAY Havres ,500 Fixture to Furnish First Real Line on Several Eastern Candidates for Kentucky Derby and Preakness . HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 17. Word was received from New York that Bill Brennan was contemplating sending Sailor Beware and Plat Eye from the Greentre Stable to start in the ,500 Chesapeake Stakes Saturday. Should these arrive, present indications are that nine will go to the post for the mile and a sixteenth gallop that offers the first important line on the three-year-olds. Those expected to be seen under silks, besides the Greentree team, are E. R. Bradleys Bloodroot, Mrs. Willis Sharpe Kil- Jmers Try Sympathy and Sun Fairplay, William Duponts Rosemont, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Commonwealth, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Gum and C. V. Whitneys Today. It is hardly possible that other than these will be sent to the post. Many of the nominees of importance are not on the grounds, while various others are not up to a gallop of a mile and a sixteenth. Should all of these be raced, the field will be a representative one. Plat Eye was winner of the National Stallion and the Juvenile at Belmont Park last year, while Sailor Beware won the Junior Champion at Aqueduct and the Babylon Handicap. Try Sympathy was winner of the Hyde Park Stakes at Arlington Park in Chicago, as well as the Woodward Stakes and the Juvenile at Detroit. Rosemont was winner of the Eastern Shore at Havre de Grace, and Commonwealth won the Endurance Handicap at Bowfc last fall. Of the lot, it is probable Commonwealth will be the choice on what he has been showing in his preparation for the big prize. All those named have been training in a fashion to suggest readiness, and there is still hope that William Hurley may change his mind and send Edward R. Bradleys Black Helen, as well as Bloodroot. The winner of the Florida Derby has been going along impressively ever since her arrival in Maryland and this morning worked an easy mile in 1:43 as part of her training. Today was sent along for a speed test this morning to turn in three furlongs in :35. This one has had plenty of useful training and will probably have a serious final for his engagement tomorrow morning. Rosemont went along a handy six furlongs in 1:14 as his morning task and he is also fit. Commonwealth has been impressing the dockers for some time and he was well ad vanced before Preston Burch brought him from the Jeffords farm.
