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BIDS FOR HARFORD HANDICAP William Dupont, Jr., Relying Upon Sunrap in Havre Feature. Delaware Sportsmans Colors May Be Borne by Three Starters in the ,500 Aberdeen Stakes. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 10. William Dupont, Jr., of Wilmington, Del., who races under the nom de course of the Fox-catcher Farms Stable, is going to make a serious bid for the ,000 Harford Handicap, opening six furlongs feature Monday. Trainer Dick Handlin has nominated Sun-rap, three-year-old brown daughter of Sun Briar and Rapine II., for the first of the four stakes to be offered during the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Associations fourteen-day session. If this miss runs to her races the past winter at Santa Anita, Calif., she will cause trouble for John Hay Whitneys Singing Wood and George D. Wideners Sation, early favorites for Mondays head-liner. With Maurice Peters, Americas leading winning rider of 1934, in the saddle, Sunrap toted 110 pounds six furlongs in 1:11 at Santa Anita. The opening quarter was run in :22 and the half in :45t. As racing secretary Charles McLennan has treated her nicely in regard to weight for Mondays sprint, it will be well for turfites to give her serious consideration when looking for the likely winner of the Harford. Owner Dupont will also make a serious bid for the ,500 Aberdeen Stakes April 28, as he has named Supremador, Manatelle and Staraway for the four and one-half furlongs event, exclusively for two-year-olds.- Gold Seeker is the Delaware sportsmans hope for the 0,000 Chesapeake April 18, the outstanding three-year-old race of the forthcoming session. Rosemont, third in the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap last winter, has not been named for any stakes here. However, if he continues to train, trainer Handlin may start him in an overnight handicap. Horses are arriving hourly by train and motor van. Every prominent American- and Canadian-owned racing establishment will be represented during the approaching fourteen days spori. Given good weather, the host organization will offer the finest spring session since the plant started doing business a quarter century ago. The Bahr stall starting gate has been set up and trainers are schooling their two-year-olds from it. The Charles M. Waite "electrical eye," which will photograph all finishes, is also set up, and its handlers are taking photos of numerous horses that work through the home stretch in the morning, thus tuning up their machine for Mondays opening program, i Race specials from New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Chester and other eastern cities coming via the Pennsylvania Railroad will pull directly into the track. The short walk to the grandstand has been covered so that visitors will be protected from the weather at all times. John Hay Whitneys Singing Wood, winner of the Bowie Inaugural in record time, was vanned here several days ago. He is training nicely and will in all likelihood wind up favorite in the opening day feature.
