Sagamore Farm's veteran sire Discovery once again topped Maryland's stallions by earnings and ranked eighth in the nation. The son of Display sired the winners of 169 races and earners of $457,187 in 1950. The 20-year-old stallion stood for $2,000, the most of the 75 stallions in the state, but was already booked full.

In today's dollars, the stud fee for Discovery, one of the best stallions in the world, would be approximately $25,000.

Havre de Grace racetrack's days were numbered. Don Reed reported: "Consolidation of Maryland's major racing through the elimination of Havre de Grace as a separate racing center, thus providing additional days at the other three tracks and possibly even the reduction of the State's major tracks to two, were the items which held attention of public and horsemen alike. . .

"Havre de Grace, as everyone knows, has been in a precarious position ever since the advent of Garden State in New Jersey. Havre de Grace always drew half of its patronage from the Philadelphia area and consequently could not expect to maintain that patronage if Garden State was offering racing to Philadelphia fans much closer to home.

"The problem of working out a suitable date schedule had become increasingly difficult, in view of the long New Jersey season, and in the last couple of years, Havre de Grace has had to run some of its days at Pimlico to avoid conflicts with Garden State.

"Thus if any track was 'first' on the list of those likely to bow out of the picture, Havre de Grace was it."

Just as the magazine was going to press came the announcement that Havre de Grace stockholders approved, by a large majority, the sale of the track to the representatives of Laurel and Pimlico.

Cadet Irvin Naylor of McDonogh School accepted the Straus Memorial Trophy, won by Jackie Ewing's Moonbeam, at the Association of Maryland Horse Shows presentation dinner. Offered for the first time for those in the Junior Division (for horses and ponies), the award was given by Mrs. Straus in memory of her late husband, a former officer and strong supporter of the horse shows association.

Naylor later rode in the Maryland Hunt Cup and became a prominent owner in American steeplechasing.