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Ellis May Become Choice for Havre HavreArmeds Armeds Withdrawal Plus First Fiddles Doubtful Status Aid to Plock Colt ColtHAVRE HAVRE DE GRACE Md May 21 Cal ¬ umet Farms Armed who has received an abundance of publicity by virtually clinch ¬ ing handicap honors this season was hailed today as the horse most likely to make the Havre de Grace Handicap when he was withdrawn from that 20000 affair thus assuring a fairly large wellbalanced field The Bull Lea gelding will pass up the mile and a furlong local test in favor of Belmont Parks Suburban Handicap HandicapWith With the withdrawal of Armed plus the uncertainty of First Fiddles arrival it is not at all unlikely that A F Flocks Ellis a recent graduate from the sprint ranks will draw the majority of the public sup ¬ port The son of Chrysler n an also ran in New Yorks Metropolitan Mile has a very impressive Havre de Grace record despite the fact that it consists of only a single race On that occasion Ellis forced Armed to the utmost when the Calumet stalwart established a new track record of 143M in winning the mile and a sixteenth Philadel ¬ phia Handicap Nick Wall regular rider of Ellis will not be in the irons Saturday but it is a f oresome conclusion that trainer Mer ritt Mergler will secure a suitable pilot Ellis has been assigned the steadying im ¬ post of 115 pounds for the nine furlongs event eventStatesman Statesman to Be Well Supported SupportedThe The local campaigner assured public sup ¬ port is K A OConnors Statesman a vastly improved fouryearold son of Silver Horde Spread who is conditioned by the popular Don Yates Statesman who has won five of his 18 races this season in ¬ cluding the seventh running of the Tropical Handicap at the Coral Gables Florida course gets in Saturdays race under 113 pounds Statesman was an impressive win ¬ ner last Saturday of an overnight allowance race in which he took the measure of Sky tracer and others He was handled by Don Padgett and reeled off a mile and sixteenth over ihe heavy track in 147 which was very commendable commendableWell Well satisfied with the riding of Padgett trainer Yates has again secured the serv ¬ ices of tliat youngster for the Havre de Grace GraceThe The starting field for the Havre de Grace should come from the following Miss Ruth McClenaghans Harford 113 Christiana Stables Service Pilot 112 Bernard Seroys Hillyer Court 112 Gustave Rings Prefect 110 Vincent Ciceros Royal Flush 109 and John A Manfusos Astral 106 106Grade Grade D sprinters feature the mid ¬ week presentation here with eight speed ¬ sters having been mustered together for the six furlongs Sun Teddy Purse holding down fifth spot on the program Steadiest performer in the octet is H L Straus Quarter Moon who will have a running mate in Panacea Quarter Moon a rapid running MarylandBred was third to Tur ¬ bine in his most recent endeavor and while he has been unable to reach the winners circle this season all of his races have been satisfactory satisfactoryOthers Others named overnight for the Sun Teddy are Trojan Fleet Lanlast Reztips J F Curry Good Rob and Boy Knight The latter will be making his seasonal debut and has always shown to best ad ¬ vantage when fresh
