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Two Preakness Stakes Instead of One, Each With 5,000 Added Baltimore. Md.. May 14. — When the Maryland Jockey Club announced early in the present year that it xvould add 5,000 to the Preakness Stakes, what was formerly considered as an ordinary feature of Pimlico Spring racing, became one of the most talked of stake races in the country, xieing in interest with the famous Kentucky Derby. It proxed the magnet that drexv an imposing entry iist of one hundred and forty-four nominations, including representatives of sexenty-cne different owners, xvith all the best two-year-olds of last year among them. Of the many innoxations introduced by the Maryland Jockey Club in the past few years, none proved more popular than making the Preakness the greatest and most valuable of the three-year-old races of tho east. However, that eldest and most famous of Marylands racing organizations is not at the end cf its innovations, judging from the surprising announcement made on the eve of the running of the Preakness Stakes. At a meeting of the directors of the Maryland Jockey Club, held last night, it was decided that in the event of there being twenty or more horses named to go in the Preakness Stakes, that the race xvould be run in two divisions and that the club would add the full amount of 5,000 to each. There were twenty-six named to go in the big race and this means that nisead oi one Preakness Stakes, there will be two and that the Maryland Jockey Club will hang up 0,000 in added money to them. The race was divided by the different owners being draxvn, which accounts for only eleven horses being named in one division, while fifteen are named in the other. The Preakness Stakes will be run as the fourth and sixth races tomorroxx-. Just what disposition will be made of the Woorilawn Vase, which goes to the winner, has not been decided. The winners of each of the j dixisicn of the race, will either draw for the I trophy or a special will be given next fall I between the pair to decide the ownership. i Year. First. Jockeys. Wt. Second. 1909 Effcndl W. Do.r«e..ll6 Fashion Pli 1910 Layminster Estep.. 84 Dalhousie 1911 Watervale E. Dtic;an..ll2 Zeus , 1912 Colonel Holloway C. Tomer.. 107 Bw.-ina Tun 1913 Buskin BntwelL.117 Klehurne . 1914 Holiday A. Schuttinger. .108 Brave Cttna 191." Rhine Maiden D. Hoffman. .104 Half Rock 191C, liamrosch L. MeAtecllS Greenwood 1917 Kalitan «• IL-iynes. .110 Al M. l icl k Kun at 1 mile in 1909 and 1910. . , k In the first division of the Preakness fifteen are carded to start, the horses, riders and weights to be carried being as follows: Horse. Jockey. Wt. War Cloud I. Loftus 117 Flags F. Robinson 107 Johren R. Troise 107 Bravado J. Doniinick 107 Man o th Hour C. Mergler 107 Nutcracker M. Buxton 107 Game Cock G. Walls 107 Lanius J. McTaggart 110 George Starr C. Kummer 107 Quietude E. Ambrose 102 Foreground L Lyke 107 Mary Maud L. McAtee 102 Sunny Slope J. Callahan 107 Zululanu J. Cruise 107 Orestes J. Pitz 107 The second division will have eleven starters, the hcrses, riders and weights to be carried bring as follows: Horse. Jockey. Wt. Jack Hare Jr C. Peak 115 Tronipe %m Mort J. McTaggart 107 Arrah Go On M. Buxton 107 Irene R. Troise 107 Recount C. Schuttinger 112 Kate Bright L. McAtee 102 Sweep Up II L. Lyke 107 Mars Mourn J. Williams 107 The Porter C. Kummer 107 Nepperhan G. Walls 107 Dr. Johnson E. Ambrose 107 The Preakness Stakes was established in 1909. During the first two years of its running, the distance was at one mile. In 1911 it was increased to one and one-eighth miles, at which distance it has been run ever since. Last year the race had an added value of 15,000 and was won by Kalitan, carrying the colors of E. R. Bradley, who shipped him from Kentucky expressly for the purpose of ning that race. The tabulated history of the Preakness is as follows : Wt. Third. Wt. Val. Time. ate Ill nil 1 Top Ill ,225 1:39% 110 Sager 116 3.300 1:40% US Tho Nigger 107 2.700 1:51 nbo 120 Tipsand 107 1,450 1 :50»i IU Barncgat 104 1,070 ldtS% arder 112 Defenduui J0C, 1.3." 5 1:5."% 100 Kunes 110 1.275 1:58 107 Achievement ..lit; I.3S0 1:5-1% 110 Kentucky Boy. 110 4.S0O 1:54%
