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i . [ , 1 1 . 1 j 1 r r ; 1 r 1 ,s 1 TO START IN DERBY AND PREAKNESS Sun Briar, Escoba, Rosie OGrady and War Cloud May Try for Both Big Kaces. Baltimore. Mil.. April JM-By fixing May 15 as the date for the running of the Preakness. the most valuable of eastern stakes. William P. Biggs, secretary of the Maryland Jockey Club, has made it possible for Preakness candidates that run in the Kentucky Derby to come to Pimlico and try for the Maryland Jockey Clubs rich race. And it is a probability that both Sun Briar and Kscoba will come east immediately after the running of the Preakness. The owners of these colts. Willis Sharpe Kilmer and Kenneth Alexander, have so declared themselves. That Bosie OOrady, which James Bowe has declared will lie sent after the Derby if he can obtain transportation to Louisville, will also come back for the Preakness is equally certain. A. K. Macombers War Cloud is another probable starter in Isith races. The three two-year-old specials of the Pimlico meeting — the Pimliiii Nursery, the Spring Juvenil • and the Aspirant Plate — are to be run on May 4. May 9 and May 14. respectively. The Pimlico Spring Handicap, which bids fair to attract the champions Westy Hogau. Omar Khayyam and Cudgel, with a raft of lierformei-s of less iidebrity. will be run on May S and the Oreen Spring Valley Steeplechase will be run on May 11. Richard T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association, has come to Maryland for the spring races. Mr. Wilson says that the only reason his trainer. Thomas Healey. is not preparing Campfire. the two-year-old sensation of 1911!. for the Pimlico Spring Handicap is that the training of the sou of Olambala was interrupted by the bad weather of a couple of weeks back. However. Mr. Wilson will have a Spring Handicap starter of good class in Straight Forward and he believes that Campfire will show himself worthy at New York in the course of the summer to come down to Maryland | in the fall and try his luck in the Bowie Cup. a 1
