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PREAKNESS STAKES TOMORROW IOURTEEN HIGH CLASS THOROUGHBREDS NAMED TO CONTEST FOR THE MOST VALUABLE THREE OLD PRIZE OF THE YEAR The Preakness Stakes of 40000 added will be run at Pimlico Monday There are fourteen highclass young horses named to contend for this great turf prize and if all start the winners share will be 43000 making the Preakness and not the Kentucky Derby the most valuable of the threeyearold races of the year The H P Whitney entry Tryster and Broomspun is the favorite but the race is held to be an open one and the other starters will not lac admirers J W McClelland has not lost hope in the Xalapa Farm Stable pair Leonardo II and Bon Homme and expect them to give a much better account of themselves in the Preak ¬ ness than they did in the Derby The Greentree Stable entertains high hopes that Touch Me Not will prove a formidable contestant in the big race and that J K L Ross still believes Star Voter has an excellent chance to capture it is evident from the fact that the colt was added after the entries had been sent out James Fitzsimmons would be the proudest man in this country if the colt named after him Sunny Jim would be returned victor He has prepared him especially with this race in view and the colt will go to the post in the best possible con ¬ dition to uphold the fame of his noted namesake The game filly Careful will not be over ¬ looked her victory in the Pimlico Oaks attesting to the fine condition she is in inThe The following are the starters their riders weights owners and trainers Horse HorseVic Rider Wt Owner Trainer Vic A Kruger 109 R I Miller J Mooney Polly Ann T Rice 109 S L Jenkins H Rites Mythology A Allen 114 J R Skinker M Smith Leonardo II A Schuttinger 126 Xalapa Farm Stable K Patterson Sunny Jim J Mooney 114 Quincy Stable J Fitzsimmons Jep L Morris 114 XE Griffith xtH KifeV Careful F Keogh 121 W J Salmon E Wayland Bon Homme C Robinson 114 Xalapa Farm Stable K Patterson Broomspun F Coltiletti 114 H P Whitney J Rowe Lough Storm J Butwell 109 E B McLean J F Schorr Touch Me Not C Fairbrother 126 Greentree Stable W R Midgely Copper Demon R Lancaster 114 Quincy Stable J Fitzsimmons Tryster C Kummer 126 H P Whitney J Rowe Star Voter L Ensor 126 J K L Ross H McDaniel
