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. TWENTY-ONE a IN PREAKNESS , STAKES Large and High Class Field Named for 0,000 Turf Prize to Be Run at Pimlico Today Rancocas Stable Represented by Nassak, H. P. Whitney by Victorian and Honker, With Such Crack Rivals as Brooms, Sun Beau, Distraction, Vito, Strolling Player and Others — Capacity Attendance Expected BALTIMORE, Md., May 10. — Twenty-one of the foremost three-year-olds in training in the East are named to start in the $.-0,000 Preakness Stakes at the famous old Pimlico course in this city tomorrow. The Rancocas Stable will undoubtedly furnish the favorite in Nasjak, the John P. Grier colt, which recently won the Kings County and Long Bsach Handicaps at Jamaica in such impressive style as to warrant the belief that he will be the horse to beat in tomorrows notable race. H. P. Whitney most likely will be represented by Victorian, though Honker has also been entered by the New York sportsman. Victorian was one of the best two-year-olds of last year and good judges of horseflesh are confident that • j The prospective starters in the Preakness Stakes include twenty colts and one filly. The distance of the race is one and three-sixteenths miles, and the field in the order of post positions, together with weights, riders, owners, trainers and breeders, are as fellows: PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. Owner. Trainer. Breeder. 1— Bateau 121 F. Stevens W. 31. Jeffords ...S. P. Harlan W. 31. Jeffords 2— Oh Say 12fl A. Pascuma Fair Stable 4. B. Gordon H. P. Whitney 3 — Solace 123 L. Pichon Seagram Siable W. H. Brinsrloe Win. Garth 4--Strolling Player 128 G. Fields Salubria Stable R. A. Smith F. urzon o — Brooms 126 H. Flston Brookmeade Stable G. R. Tompkins Mrs. T. J. Regan 6— Snn Beau 12S J. t raigmyle W. S. Kilmer C. W. Carroll W. S. Kilmer 7— Victorian 126 R. Workman II. P. Whitney J. Rowe, Jr. II. P. Whitney 8— Toro 126 E. Ambrose E. B. McLean J. F. Schorr E. B. McLean 9— Nassak 125 L. Fator Rancocas Stable S. C. Hildreth J. L. Carrick 10— Friars Hope 126 E. Barnes Mrs. J. S. Dean J. Bntler J. E. Madden 11— Sortie 123 t. Kummer A. C Schwartz M. Hirsch G. W. Loft 12— Snnfire 126 L. Schaefer R. T. Wilson T. J. Healey R. T. Wilson 13— Distraction 126 D. McAuliffe Wheatley Stable J. Fitzsimmons II. P. Whitney 11— Don Q 126 P. Walls Sagamore Stable J. H. Stotler J. E. .Madden 15— Typhoon 128 J. Smith Kenton Farm Stable H. G. Bed well Payne and West 16— Vito 126 A. H. Cosd?n 31. Hirsch A. H. Cosden 17— Bobashela 126 II. Fisher Audley Farm Stable S. 31. Henderson 31. and B. B. Jones 18 — Knapsack 128 S. ODonnell Salnbria Stable Wm. Garth S. Ross 19— Penalo 126 L. Waterbury 31. Hirsch Gallaher Bros. 20— Honker 126 L. 3IcAtee H. P. Whitney J. Rowe, Jr H. P. Whitney .... 21— Petee-Wrack 126 31. Garner J. R. Macomber W. Booth Belair Stnd • — ■ ■ ■ — - ■ ■ S the brother to Whiskery, Kentucky Derby winner of 1927, will be a dangerous contender for Pimlicos outstanding race. Brooms, Vito, Distraction, Bobashela, the latter winner of the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace recently, are among others considered to have an excellent chance to carry off the rich prize. Despite the recent failures of the costly English horse Strolling Player, his connections still entertain high hopes that this royally-bred colt will make amends for earlier disappointments by showing his true qualities in the Preakness. All indications point to a great race. With twenty-one thoroughbreds named to start, overnight indications are that the largest field in the history of the rich Preakness Stakes will compete in the thirty-eighth running of the event tomorrow. Barring scratches, the 0,000 added money feature of the Maryland Jockey Club will have a gross value of about 4,000 and net the winning owner approximately .000, in addition to the historic "Woodlawn Vase. With eight days intervening, it is possible for an owner to start an eligible in both the Preakness and the equally rich, though more famous Kentucky Derby. Of tomorrows field, all but Bateau. Solace and Sun-fire were nominated for the Derby, which will be renewed at Churchill Downs on May 19. To date, J. K. L. Ross Sir Barton is the only thoroughbred that ever won both features. He registered the double score in 1919, in which year, incidentally, the Derby-was decided before the Preaknss. Along with the record field, a record attendance is anicipated by the association. Extraordinary arrangements have been completed for the accommodation of the crowd. All of the reservations at the Hill Top track were exhausted days ago, and a canvass of the Baltimore hotels revealed an unusually large number of out of town reservations. The ranks of the visitors will be swelled further by the hosts coming by special trains from various cities. An international flavor is given the race. The Seagram Bothers of Waterloo, Ont., are making a bid for victory with Solace, the son of Trojan, while Admiral Cary T. Graysons Salubria Stable will be represented by the English-bred colt Strolling Player, for which he and B. B. Jones, proprietor of the Audley Farm Stable, paid 1,000 in partnership. The starting of Strolling Player raised a technical point that has been argued with much gusto by turf followers here for the last few days. It is claimed that as Admiral Grayson and the master of Audley Farm own Continued on twenty-first page. - t i i i I . i , ! : . . I ! 1 1 j , • 1 I • • I 1 ? • r • 1 TWENTY-ONE IN PREAKNESS l Continued from first page. the foreigner jointly and as the Audley Farm colors will be carried by Bobashela. surprise winner of the Chesapeake Stakes on closing day of the Havre de Grace meeting, the pair should be coupled in the Preakness. Such will not be the case. The colts are trained by different individuals, S. M. Henderson preparing Bobashela, while Robert A. Smith is the foreigners conditioner. More- over. Strolling Player was nominated by the F Salubria Stable and not by the Audley Stable. I Among the rank and file of racegoers, vie- i tory for Nassak would be pleasing. It would • be regarded as retributive justice. Harry F. 1 Sinclair, master of Rancocas Farm, was •-stamped by the Maryland State Racing Com- t mission as being unworthy of participating in the sport under its jurisdiction, because J of his implication in the Tea Pot Dome oil scandal. While he was on trial in the United 1 States courts the commission barred him and his horses in Maryland ; with his acquit- 1 tal the commission automatically was obliged 1 to remove the ban. The commission was I severely criticised for its hasty action against i the horseman. It would be irony indeed i should Nassak gallop off with the 3,000. Probabilities are that the track will be t fast for the running of the Preakness Sakes. ; Yesterdays heavy rains made it a quagmire. 1 With clear weather today it dried out quickly, i The going was good for the racing this after- i noon and with clear skies indicated for to- | morrow the footing should be fast. 1 It has been well over half a century since i the first Preakness was run at Pimlieo. This is a long time in the average life of man. and | most unusual in the existence of a racing i fixture, most of which date from compara- i tively recent times. i In the case of the Preakness. this longevity i is emphasized by the fact that the course where the stake is held has changed but little, save for more modern and enlarged • facilities, since that memorable afternoon in the year 1873 when John F. Chamberlins bay • colt Survivor, by Vandal, dam by Lexington, bred by John M. Clay of the Ashland Stud Farm. Kentucky, ridden by George Bar- i bee. the best jockey of his day, and trained i by A. D. Pryor, triumphed over Jordan and Companys locally-owned John Bulger, with H. P. McGraths Artist third. There were twenty-one subscribers, seven starters, time for the mile and a half, 2 :43, and value to the winner about ,500. By calling the stake the Preakness. the Maryland Jockey Club sought to perpetuate the name of the good son of Lexington and Bay Leaf, which, in the colors of M. H. Sanford of the Preakness Stud Farm, New Jersey, was victor in the sporting event, the Dinner Party, afterwards famous as the Dixie Stakes, the feature of the inaugural meeting at Pimlieo in 1S70, and which made it known as a racing center the world over. From this modest beginning, the Preakness has grown in value and importance until now it is recognized as one of "the blue ribbons of the turf," and worth as much in thousands of dollars to the winner as it is years old. The Preakness is essentially a race for the sterner sex, as only two fillies have won it since its inaugural, these two being Edward F. Whitneys Rhine Maiden in 1915, and Bud Fishers Nellie Morse in 1924, the latter also capturing the Pimlieo Oaks at the same meeting, proving she was something out of the ordinary. In 1909 the added money in The Preakness was only ,000, which has been increased first to ,000, then 5,000, and 5,000, finally to the present figure of 0,000, which makes it one of the most valuable stakes of the turf. The famous Woodlawn Vase was offered to the Maryland Jockey Club in 1917 as a trophy to the winner of the Preakness by Thomas Clyde, who obtained permanent possesstea of it through the prowess of Short Hose. The Woodlawn Vase is a beautiful specimen of the silversmiths art, of massive and appropriate design, and was made by Tiffany in 1860, to the order of Col. R. A. Alexander of Kentucky, who presented it fe r competi- tion to the Woodlawn Association of Louis-1 ville, Ky. When Mr. Clyde turned it over to the Maryland Jockey Club as a trophy for the Preak- ness, it was with the idea that the winning owner should have the privilege of naming the track, and feature, for the next contest. Through the courtesy, howeve., of the successive winning owners since 1917. the Wood- lawn Vase, has been annually added to the Preakness. and has come to be identified with this historic event. These winning owners, who have shown their sportsmanship by re-1 turning the vase to the custody of the Mary- land Jockey Club daring the past decade are: E. R. Bradley, A. K. Macomber and W. E. Applegate. joint winners in 1918 with War Cloud and Jack Hare Jr.; J. K. L. Ross, S. D Riddle, H. P. Whitney, R. T. Wilson, Jr., Walter J. Salmon twice. Bud Fisher, Gif-f ford A. Cochran. For the second time, through the victory last year of Bostoniai , Harry Payne Whitney is in possession of the Woodlawn Vase, his other winner being Broomspun in 1921, and it is understood he has again kindly con-si i tod to add it to the Preakness of ll2S.
