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RICH PREAKNESS STAKES TUESDAY Man o War to Compete with Seasoned Kentucky Derby Starters and Is Ready KALTIMOKE MI May IL The Preakness a race of one mile and in eighth for entire colts anil fillies three years old tliat will be renewed at the picturesque old Iinilico course on Tuesday with Man o War On Watch Doiinacoiia Tpset anil twelve to fifteen other good threeyearolds com ¬ peting will l e the richest of eastern racing prizes for that ace this year The contribution of the Maryland Jockey Club under whose auspices the Prcakness will be decided will be i5000 and to this sum will be added starting fees of 500 each It is a pretty sure thing that there will lie a dozen runners and there may be as many as fifteen Twelve starters would give the race a gross value of KM 000 fifteen would make it 3i50O affair The lions share of this splendid sum will go lo the winner The second horse will take down XJtOOO the third SlOOO and the fourth 1001 1001No No race for threeyearolds that lias been run in the Pnited States in the course of the last fifteen or twenty years has attracted a field of much better threeyearolds than the croup that will compete in this years renewal of the Prcakness The best of the horses that took part in the recent renewal at Churchill Downs of the Kentucky Derby Paul Jones the wnner executed have come to Maryland to race for the Preakness and with these seasoned performers will run some three or four that could not lie got ready for a race decided as early as the eighth day of May Paul Jones the Kentucky Derby winner is not eligible to start in the Preakness because lie is a gelding The unsexcd horse was excluded from the Preakness some years back for the purpose of discouraging the practice of gelding stallions stallionsMan Man o War under the silks of Samuel D Kiddle of Philadelphia earned S13 5 on American race courses last year and suffering defeat on but ine occasion and then under the circumstances that reflected no credit on his jockey will start for the first time in a threeyearold race in the Preakness The great Fair Play colt will be fa voritLV lift vTTileicd at Glen Kiddie Farm which is in Worcester County Maryland on the famed eastern shore and galloped briskly out of doors through February and March while most of his prospective opponents of Tuesday were restricted ti shed exercises Since his arrival at Pclmont Park about the first of May he has trained splen ¬ didly lie is easily tho choice of the trainers at the Westchester Racing Associations great track notwithstanding he will tackle in the Preakness horses that have already had the benefit of racing this year yearWHITNEY WHITNEY CANDIDATES DANGEROUS DANGEROUSIn In Ipset and Wildair both cumpetitors in the recent Derby at Louisville Harry Payne Whitney will have a pair of formidable Preakness con j testantsj Wildair is at his best on a fast track j Lpsot which scored a lucky victory over Man o War in the Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga last summer runs equally well in muddy or dry going If the going is heavy on Tuesday it is not improbable that Wildair will remain in his stable and that John I Crier will run in his stead John P rier did not start in the Kentucky Derby because he had not on the day of the running of that race recovered from the car sickness he suf ¬ fered en route to Louisville from Havre de Grace lie is all right now nowOn On Watch one of the Kentucky Derbys placed contenders will bear the silks of George W Lof t ot New York and he will have a companion runner j ii Donnacona On Watch a son of the unbeaten Colin is a famous mud runner Donnacona prob ¬ ably will run his best race on a fast track If his Kentucky Derby form was true Donnacona is a poor mud runner Although he easily outworked his stable companion and prospective Preakness running mate Donnacona was badly beaten by On Watch WatchCommander Commander J 1C L Koss of Montreal who won last springs Kentucky Derby also last springs Preakness with Sir Karton will be represented in the Preakness this year by King Thrush an English bred son of Thrush and a winner in Maryland this spring Other potential starters are W K Cues Cleopatra and David Ilarum Thomas Clydes Fair ¬ way W S Murrays Sandy Iteal Kal Parrs biases W J Salmons Hobty Haker Mrs W M Jeffords Golden Itroom and W M Jeffords Kin KinIIOIll IIOIll
