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] 8 . • Here and There ! on the Turf i : Preakness Day. Importance of Old Race. Anita Peabodys Speed. Three Fast Fillies. $ e Preakness Day in Baltimore is the equivalent of Derby Day that means so much to Louisville. The 0,000 rac?, had had its first running away back in 1873, has a renewal this afternoon at the Pimlico course of the Maryland Jockey Club and it promises to be a truly notable renewal. In 1873 when Survivor was the winner of the first Preakness Stakes it was a dash of a mile and a half and it continued at that distance until 1889, at which time the race was discontinued and it was not revived until 1909. Since that date it has been renewed each year and from a winners portion of ,225, when Effendi won the revival, it grew to a high mark of 4,000 net to Bud j Fishers Nellie Morse, when she was the winner of the race in 1924. Since the Preakness Stakes reached a net value in excess of 0,000 to the winner, T. J. Healey has been wonderfully I I successful, saddling three of the six winners j that have taken first money. These were Pillory for Richard T. Wilson in | I 1922, Vigil for Walter J. Salmon in 1923, . j I and Display for the samj turfman in i 1926. Thus it is that in the three victories the Healey trained colts earned a • net total of 56,625. Another interesting bit of history in t the record of this great race is that in i ; 1918 the Maryland Jockey Club found so i j . many entries on the da3r of the race that t i it was run in two divisions, with 5,000 I added to each end. The first fell to A. K. . Macombers War Cloud, when he beat t nine others, while the second division i was won by Jack Hare, Jr., with five l others starting. That would have meant that sixteen would have gone to the post t had it not been split. Such a number is s not too cumbersome, but there were several withdrawals from the second half I that was won by Jack Hare, Jr., so that : when he was the winner of 1,250 he l earned just ,000 less than fell to War • Cloud. Time" was when there was a conflict t between the running of the Preakness 5 Stakes and the Kentucky Derby, but for • several years past dates have been i chosen that would enable eligibles to keep both engagements and Sir Barton i in 1919 is the one horse that triumphed I in both great races. One race naturally t has a great bearing on the other, and I with the Preakness Stakes usually run i ahead of the Derby, its winner naturally y lakes a high place in a consideration of f the later stake race. Last year Bostonian, for the H. P. i Whitney stable, was the winner, with 1 the Seagram Stables Sir Harry second, and Whiskery, another Whitney starter, third. Then in the running of the Derby * it was Whiskery that was first. Five of * the twelve that appeared in the Preakness - . Stakes were raced in the field of fifteen that started in the Kentucky ? Derby, and this is evidence enough of f the wisdom of choosing dates that enable ] ! i : j I I j | I . j I i • t i ; i . j t i I . t i l t s I : l • t 5 • i i I t I i y f i eligibles to meet both engagements. The Preakness Stakes will always be one of the famous American races and a victory means more than the big sum falling to the owner, while it means much in reputation to the horse. Reigh Count has been accomplishing so much in his preparation for the Kentucky Derby that it was almost forgotten that he has an illustrious stablemate in Anita Peabody, winner of the Futurity at Belmont Park last year, and leading money winner for 1927, when she earned 11,905, only being beaten once in seven starts. Trainer Michell evidently had not forgotten that he had Anita Peabody in his stable and in the Derby, as well as Reigh Count, and that swift running miss asserted herself Tuesday at Churchill Downs when she outworked the colt at a mile. The filly covered her mile in 1:40% to lead Reigh Count over that part of his workout. She was eased up in the last quarter and pulled to a canter at the end, which would indicate that Reigh Count remains the stable dependence for the Kentucky Derby. Reigh Count finished out the mile and a quarter in 2:10%, but he was within a sixteenth of a mile of the entire route when he headed the filly. This was the first time that Anita Peabody has shown such speed over the mile distance and it means much. The pair began from the barrier and it was the filly that was showing the way just as far as she was required to run. With two such three-year-olds in his care it is the part of wisdom that Michell should wait with the filly for engagements where she will meet those of her sex, at least until she has to take the place of Reigh Count and meet all comers. Both are in rare condition and they should surely bring more fame to the stable of their fair owner this year. There had been rumors of the retirement of Anita Peabody last fall and the fact that she is back in such racing condition is of great interest to the turf. The Rosedale Stakes at Jamaica on Tuesday uncovered a sweet running miss from the stable of George D. Widener, when A. J. Joyner sent Atlantis to the post. This is a black daughter of John P. Grier and Oceanna and the Rosedale Stakes was her first start. She was beaten, but it was only a matter of inches and by T. W. OBriens Virmar, the swift-running daughter of Westy Hogan that had been seasoned by racing. It is reasonable to expect that Atlantis will improve with racing and at this time she takes high rank among the two-year- olds of her sex. And there was another in the same Rosedale Stakes that belongs right up with the best shown. This one is Ma Mie, a daughter of Black Tony and Nadjy, that races for Mrs. William Ziegler, Jr.s, Middleburg Stable. Ma Mie still has something to learn of racing, but the manner in which she finished out the five-eighths of the filly stakes at Jamaica leaves no doubt of her high speed. Ma Mie cost ,500 as a yearling and she is sure to prove an excellent bargain. She is a filly of goodly size, has a smooth way of going, and it is probable that she will be better than either Virmar or Atlantis, which beat her heme on Tues-: day. The three of them finished just noses apart, but Ma Mie was catching the ether two at the finish. Virmar does not have any engagements at Belmont Park, but both Ma Mie and Atlantis are engaged and they will have a chance to meet in the running of the ! Fashion Stakes. In addition to this I engagement Ma Mie is also named for the Juvenile Stakes and the National Stallion Stakes, two engagements not possessed by Mr. Wideners good filly. It would appear now that Stuyvesant Peabody, the Chicago turfman, made no 1 mistake when he purchased Martie Flynn I from C. W. Moore. This good son of Sweep On and Rosa Lee has at least t demonstrated that he is a lare miler and i it may be that he will be able to carry r his weight to glory over the Kentucky Derby distance. _ *
