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CHESAPEAKE STAKES POSSIBILITIES IIAVB1 DK GKACK Mel April 17 Nearly every good eastern owned threeyearold training for the impending renewal at Pimlico of thp Preakness Stakes and for the Kentucky Derby that is any ¬ where near racing condition can appear under silks t Havre de trace next Saturday in the Chesapeake Stakes The Chesapeake a 5000 race of one unh ¬ and seventy yards for threeyearolds the weights to be fixed by a scale of penalties and allowances will be this year a sort of Preakness preliminary It will attract many threeyearolds of cither sex training for the Preakness because owners and trainers alike realize that there is nothing so good for a horse preparing for such a hard gallop as tin impending event at Iinilico as a real struggle for blood under colors It rarely happens that the opportunity to give a Preakness or a Kentucky Derby candidate a public trial in a race that will pay 5000 in added money offers offersMan Man o War the ehampion twoyearold of 1Jlil and the prospective favorite for the Preakness will probably be one of the starters in the Chesapeake Bal Parr of Baltimore will be represented by Blazes also by Paul Jones Other probable starters are Commander Boss Constancy and either King Thrush or Irish Dancer A II Biass Blue Wrack th winner in Cuba of the 10000 National Handicap Bichard I Carmans Crmalidile lames W Mc Clellands Hasten On and The Trout Waiter J Salmons Ilohey Baker and My I nldie Major Hubert L Gerrys Feodor Thomas Clydes Fairway Daniel Cunninghams St Allan and Abner Cloptons Bullet Proof ProofJames James Bowe has not yet scut word which of the Whitney threeyearolds he is training at Brookelale Farm will come down for the Chesapiake But Bowe holds a strong tlireeycarcld hand and his hors s have been gong well at Irookdale these five weeks His potential Chesapeake and Preakuess stars are Ipsct Leviathan Wildair and John P Crier 1pset and Wildair are going particularly well
