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TUMBLER FAVORED FOR THE PREAKNESS. Trainer James Rowe Had Him Primed for the Kentucky Derby and Is in Grand Form. Harry Payne Whitney will be represented in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday by horses which have hail a thorough training under James Rowe and which stand a good chance of carrying off the rich prize in each event. Tumbler has been named to start in the Preakness Stakes, withNiickety running in the Kentucky IVrby, according to the New York millionaires latest announcement. He has already shipped Tumbler to Pimlico and has given J. Williams the mount for the big eastern race. Jockey Frank Robinson will have the mount on Rickety in the Derby. Hotll these horses are eligibles to the Kentucky Derby and up until the shipment of Tumbler to Pimlico, it was expected that he might lie among the starters in the big Kentucky race. Sending him to Pimlico, however, and Rickety to Louisville, indicates that Harry Payne Whitney is after the honors in both big races of next Saturday. The . X Preakness at Pimlico will be the best Preakness that the Maryland Jockey Club has staged. The field will be tin- biggest and best balanced in the history of the race and nearly every starter will go to the post in prime condition. Excellent Opposition for Tumbler. Horses that are likely to appear against Tumbler in the first of the easts great three year -old races are the filly Fruit Cake, Samuel Ross colts Crank and Iltimatum. Colonel Hal Parrs Nebraska and possibly The pelgian II. , Richard T. Wilsons Kilblee and Straight Forward, D. S. Dryers Nashville. Thomas Clydes Hyannis, James MoClollands store] Writ. Dr. J. S. Tyrees Sea Gull. Edward MiP.rides Reprobate. Philip T. Chinns Courtship. Wilfrid Yiaus Amalgamator and Alfred Ilennen Morris Piraeus. It is likely that there will 1m- several other starters, but they will hardly count unless the signs are misleading. Resides Tumbler and Fruit Cake, Nashville. Hyannis. Sea Gull and Courtship have appeared under colors and shown something. Hyannis showed his qualily in sprint races at Havre de Grace and Pimlico. Nashville, which defeated Courtship, Sea Gull, Ciepuscule and Amalgamator in the race of five and a half fill longs, is the best son of Cyolndes that has come to the races. He is royally bred on his dams side, his mother. My Ressie being a sister to Touch Me. Croat Britain and Commoners To nek, and he is nothing if not a route traveler. Courtship, tiie first of the foreign two -year-olds of last rear to show anything this year as a three year-old. is a son of Phoenix — Courtisane. and a product of Clarence 11. Mackays French Stud. He will be remembered as the contender in last falls Wnlnen Stakes at Pimlico. which George 1. Wideneis tight-footed mare Columbine won. and he has matured into a three-year-old of sahutanee and quality. He dislikes the- sort of race in which Nashville took his measure as much as he does the Cyrlsnes eett himself, fen Gull, the son of Bra King loots, which disappointed Dr. Tjrce and his friends last year alter outworking the best youngsters that wintered at Penning in the early spring, lias come handsomely into his own. Amalgamator Is Canadas Representative. Royal Writ, a beautifully finished chestnut by Roi Herode — Alphabet, is another foreigner that is attracting attention. Amalgamator, the most promising horse of the line of Ormonib — his sire having been Duke of Ormonde- -since Sir Wilfred, is a MM of fine balance and splendid proportions, and his candidacy will give the Preakness an international character it baa not had in the past. His owner. Mr. Viau. is a Canadian millionaire. The experts still profess to doubt tin- ability of Fruit Cake, the fleetest filly, barring Columbine, that raced on American tracks last year and six -lime winner this year, to maintain her speed ever a long distance of ground. Rut E. T. belli COh r, her owner, and William Rurttschell. her trainer, do not share that doubt. Fruit Cake is working splendidly. When James Rowe sent Tumbler to race at Havre de Grace, tie opinion prevailed that he would he the horse the stable relied upon for the Kentucky Derby. Joe Natter has been sweet on this kerne since his two-year-old career. Whether he was short in bis race at Havre de Grace when beaten by King Herod is known only by the stable, but there is no denying the fact that trainer Rowe expected to win that race, as many of his friends gave the horse financial support. He certainly has s;» •e! and is looked upon as one ef the most dangerous contenders for the Prenkness Stakes.
