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PIMLICOS GRADED HANDICAP Spirited Contests with Results Disastrous to Favorites Announcement Made of Thirteen ThirteenProbable Probable Starters in Preakness PreaknessStakes Stakes Next Tuesday PALTIMOKK Mil May M The Australian sys t m of graded handicaps was given a trial at Pirn ico this afternoon before a great crowd and over heavy track Results of the experiment were s tisfactory except in one particular that being that the favorites wore licked in every ease except in the one captured by Glen Light In fact favor ¬ ites were at a discount in the days proceedings Slippery Elm was the favorite for the class A race I u the much improved St jucntin took his measure rnd hi had his troubles in outstaying the good fiily Kallipolis for second place On her showing liday she is about ready to combat successfully in r ces for her own sex sexMike Mike Lynch who acted as assistant starter at different times for A P Dade James Milton and Mars Cassidy has been engaged to do the start ¬ ing at nine of the halfmile tracks in Pennsylvania Tlie circuit on which he will officiate includes Vork Keading Hanover Lancaster Ashland and Shamokin ShamokinJames James Putwell has been engaged to ride Thomas Clydes Fairway in the Preakness Stakes J G HiiKsey Hut wells agent received telegrams from different horsemen asking for Hut well o ride on MM opfiiiiijrila allfi1naicar W A Shea has obtained an option on a stock farm in London County Virginia and will prob ¬ ably close for it within the next month In the vent of his taking over tin farm the stallions Tea Caddy and Cranite together with the mares owned by Shea and J II Loucheim of Philadel ¬ phia will be removed from Kentucky to Virginia VirginiaMatt Matt Hrady has arranged to ship the J E Davis horses to Pelmont Park on Sunday A division of Hit James Fitzsimmons horses wilt leave in the same car carThe The plater Firing Line which came out of his last race a lame horse changed hands this morning W Forinan purchasing him of K K Pryson the consideration being six shares of the Devonshire Park stock stockEarl Earl Haynes will leave for Jamaica tonight He las been engaged to ride Old Kocniy by J J Maher MaherHERRON HERRON DEVELOPS A SPRINT SPRINTAV AV Daly who came back from Kentucky with Senor E Alvarez Hirron reports that the colt has thrown a splint It is his intention to have it fired for this ailment Histouri the Tracery horse that Senor Alvarez purchased of August Helmont a few weeks back is taking his training in a satisfactory manner and there appears no question but what he will stand training He is one of the handsomest horses at Pimlico Daly has already sent him a half mile in 54 The horses will be shipped from here to New York but it is doubtful if any of them will be raced before the Saratoga meeting Daly has been instructed by his em ¬ ployer to be on the lookout for desirable horses to strengthen the stable stableThe The Kentucky claiming rule will be in force at the coming meeting at Thorncliffe Toronto TorontoU U developed today that Little Nearer a starter ii the lust race on Wednesday Imd a siomre in is nose Silas Veiteh trainer of Little Nearer dis ¬ covered the sponge this morning On the day of the race the stewards were informed that there was some suspicion that Little Nearer had been tam ¬ pered with and a veterinarian was sent to the stable but reported that he could find no evidence if anything wrong Little Nearer was not a con ¬ tender in the race and Veiteh still suspecting that hi horse had been fixed in some manner persisted v ilh Hie result that the sponge was discovered this morning morningThe The probable starters and iders for the Preak Ifss were announced today They are subject to a hiigo of riders on Donnacona Sandy Heal fi Corey Fairway J Hutwell Cleopatra L McAtoe Man o War L EiiMir On Watch N Harrett Vlazes T Kice King Thrush E Sande Wildair F Coltilleti 1pset E Ambrose John P Jrier 1 Rodriguez Donnicona J Pierce Anniversary T Mooney St Allan E Ihiyios IhiyiosThe The stewards after investigating the runnins of the twoyearold Tntt restoivd jockey F Murphy t good standing So far as ls contract employer the Nevada Stock Farm wis concerned ther uling j gainst II W Frey owner of the colt remains in force and his entries will not be accepted by the Maryland Jockey Club ClubKail Kail Iarrs Kentucky Derby winner Paul Jones with jockey Ted Kice in the saddle and with the elors up worked through tiie stretch after the running of the fourth race
