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PDHLICOS BIG HORSE COLONY1 . 600 Horses Stabled at Maryland Track Ready to Race. Many Owners Planning to Van Daily to Havre de Grace Course for Meeting There. BALTIMORE, Md., April 10. There are in the neighborhood of 600 horseftjin training at Pimlico, whose owners will fn over this week to Havre de Grace to avj?! the opening of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Associations fourteen-day session Monday. Louis Feustel, who once prepped the mighty Man o War and who is in charge of J. W. Y. Martins string, has some excellent looking two-year-olds, which he will take to Havre de Grace. Frank Garrett is another of the Pimlico contingent who will bear watching at Havre de Grace. Garrett is prepping the horses of J. E. Hughes, of Detroit, and Howard Bruce of this city. Jack Boniface has a few surprises to put over on the boys with the horses he is handling for Mrs. Robert H. Heighe, of Belair. Dr. J. Fred Adams, James V. Stewart, Branncastle Farm, Mrs. A. P. Doyle, Arthur Hullcoat, Mrs. Val Crane, Ed Trotter, Capt. P. M. Walker, Sage Stable, Howe Stable and Mayor Frank Hayes, of Waterbury, Conn., are others whose horses are training in this state and who will strive for purses at Havre de Grace. Charles McLennan, racing secretary at Havre de Grace, arrived there yesterday from Texas. McLennan is busy on the official weights for the ,000 Harford Handicap, six furlongs feature on opening day. It is expected that John Hay Whitneys Singing Wood, victor in the Bowie Inaugural when he carried 128 pounds, five and one-half furlongs, in the new time of 1:07, will draw top weight in Mondays opening feature at the Harford County track. Charles M. Waite, inventor of the "electrical eye," which will photograph all finishes at Havre de Grace, is now en route there from Tropical Park, Florida, where his machine met with the heartiest approval of horsemen and racing fans. The Waite "e" has been adopted by the Maryland IffMc Commission as the official machine to p a. graph finishes this year at Havre de Grace, Pimlico, Laurel and Bowie. H. A. M. Frank, assistant to general manager Edward Burke, is due in Havre de Grace today from Oaklawn Park, Ark. He will find plenty of work to do, as general manager Burke has had numerous requests for clubhouse, private boxes and reserved seats for opening day. In addition to the ,000 Harford Handicap on opening day, racing secretary McLennan will offer three other stakes. They are: 0,000 Chesapeake on April 18, ,500 Philadelphia Handicap on April 25, and the ,500 Aberdeen Stakes on April 28. The Chesapeake is the Easts final tryout for the Kentucky Derby, and is almost certain to witness a meeting between Grand Slam, White Cockade, Tintagel and Holly-rood. Jesse Bennet, custodian of the Havre de Grace jockeys room, reports that Sonny Workman, Silvio Coucci, Bobby Merritt, Harry Richards, Eddie Arcaro, Maurice Peters, Johnny Bejshak, Joe Renick, Sammy Renick, Leo Fallon, Lloyd Knapp, Carl Han-ford, Ira Hanford, Les Pichon and Georgie Watson will all don silks during the meeting. Folks, who plan to motor to Havre de Grace," will find the roads from all sections of the East in good condition. There is free parking space for several thousand automobiles on track property. Race specials will be run from New York, Philadelphia and other eastern cities by both the Pennsylvania and B. and O. railroads.
