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t HAVRE DE GRACE NOTES s s J. U. Gratton, Montreal sportsman, who has a large string of racers at Woodbine Park, in charge of J. P. Mayberry, awaiting the opening of the Canadian racing season, was a visitor at Havre de Grace Monday. Brookmeade Stables Delphinium, second in Saturdays Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace, was shipped back to New York. The colts next engagement will likely be in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica next Saturday. Trainer R. Curran shipped seven of the Araho Stable performers to Narragahsett Park on Sunday. Curran will remain here with four horses, including New Deal and Howard, both of which have been nominated for the Philadelphia Handicap, ,500, mile and a sixteenth feature, to be run at Havre de Grace Saturday, April 25. Trainer Frank Garrett has applied for twenty-five stalls to house the extensive public stable that he will campaign at Arlington Park, Washington Park and Hawthorne this summer. Garrett will race at Pimlico before shipping to the West. Jockey Hilton Dabson, who recently invented and patented a jockeys boot, states that he has formed a partnership with William Kroop, of Laurel, Md., and that production of the boot will commence shortly in that town. After the conclusion of the major Maryland season Dabson will report to trainer Harry Hart, who has the horses of Leo Marks Le Mar Stock Farm in Kentucky. Robert Emmett Potts, trainer for the Bo-mar Stable, has engaged an express car for Wednesday to transfer Grand Slam, formidable entry for the Kentucky Derby, to Louisville, Ky., the scene of the blue grass classic, to be run May 2. Lovely Girl, a member of the same establishment, which is eligible for the Kentucky Oaks, will be included in the shipment along with Forest Play, which will serve as a trial horse for Grand Slam in his final works.
