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CHESAPEAKE PROVING GROUND 9 Kentucky Derby Chances of Eligibles Hinge on Showing. 0,000 Thrce-Ycar-OId Special to Bo Run at Havre de Grace on April 18 Horses Arriving Daily. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 8. With the arrival here of the so-called "Big Shots" of this years three-year-old division, racegoers will be able to get a line on the likely winner of the 0,000 Chesapeake, to be run April 18, as well as revealing plans of some of the Kentucky Derby candidates. The fourteen-day meeting of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association, which opens at 2:30 p. m., Monday, April 13, will place the stamp of approval on many three-year-olds in addition to discarding many in the fight for the years title. Chief interest in visiting three-year-olds will center in the appearance of the Bomar Stables Grand Slam, winner of four stakes last year. The meeting here will also see such as Bright Plumage, Santan, Re-Election, Bold Venture, Postage Due, Snark, Seabiscuit, Teufel, Jean Bart, Hollyrood, War Emblem, Booming Guns, Valse, Bow and Arrow, Winter Sport, Phantom Fox, Nightcap, Car-vola, Neap, Clocks, Challephen, Galsac, Jamboree, Rai Hai, Split Second and White Cockade. Listing the 0,000 Chesapeake two weeks in advance of the 0,000 Kentucky Derby struck a popular chord with trainers of the topnotch three-year-olds. It not only gives them a chance to definitely find out if their charges are of championship timber, but allows them to tighten them up for the mile and one-quarter test at the Downs. Due to the Preakness being held two weeks following the Kentucky Derby, many of the three-year-olds will race here and, after competing in Kentucky will be shipped to New York for the Belmont or out to Illinois for the American Derby. Race secretary Charles McLennan has the assurance of every trainer of a topnotch three-year-old that they would compete during the forthcoming meeting, and that one and all would strive for the Chesapeake, which means that Saturday, April 18, will be a red letter day for racing at this pic-tuesque course. Racing here this month promises to be the best in the history of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association. This will be due to the great number of thoroughbreds already in the state. Nearly 2,000 are quartered at some one of the states eight tracks, and in the majority of instances, they are being pointed for some race to be run here the latter part of the month. General manager Edward Burke, of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association, is giving visitors this month something new. It is the Charles M. Waite "electrical eye," which photographs all finishes. The Waite "electrical eye" was adopted last month by the Maryland Racing Commission as the official machine to photograph all finishes on state mile tracks. Burke has arranged with both the B. and O. and Pennsy line to operate daily race specials from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. For those folks who plan to motor here the roads are excellent. There is ample free parking space on track property.
