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I HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES s Although no one could be found to verify it, there was a rumor going the rounds here that the Brookmeade Stable was dickering for the services of Johnny Gilbert, whose contract with the Glen Riddle Farm expires within the next two months. The halter brigade has taken seventeen horses since Marylands spring season opened, during which 7,500 figured in the transactions. Twelve claims -were registered at Bowie and five here. Ex-jockey Danny McAuliffe added to his stable when he claimed Blind Brook and Smear. There are twelve horses on the" starters list with the adding of Peter Patch, Come Home, Dream Kiss and Small Devil. "Chuck" Frost, who had planned to go to New York to handle jockey Clarence Mc-Crossen, may change his mind and remain until after the Pimlico meeting. W. H. Wright, who conducts one of the largest breeding farms in the Dominion of Canada and who races a large string on Canadian tracks during the Canadian racing season was an arrival from Toronto.
