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Thirteen Entered for Pimlicos Coveted 50000 Turf Prize S Ross Entry Also Held in High Esteem Capacity Crowd Expected BALTIMORE Md May 9 The Maryland Jockey Club will offer tomorrow afternoon the outstanding attraction of its spring meeting when the 50000 added Preakness Stakes is run at the picturesque old Pimlico course This is the first of the 50000 stake features for threeyearolds to be run this year Though such stars as Blue Larkspur Clyde Van Dusen Naishapur and Karl Eitel as well as sev ¬ eral others are not among the prospective starters The field of thirteen carded to go is well matched and of such quality as to furnish a contest in keeping with i the best traditions of this great and valuable fixture fixtureSome Some of the most prominent stables of the East are represented H P Whit ¬ ney will rely on Beacon Hill to carry his popular silks the Rancocas Stable is depending on Leucite to uphold the fame of that most successful establishment while R T Wilson has African which is coupled with Dr Freeland the standard bearer of W J Salmon and the probable favorite Earl Sands will ride his own en ¬ try Hermitage and undoubted will be ac ¬ corded much support because of the presence of that great rider in the saddle The newly organized Warm Stable has a formidable entry in The Nut which was recently pur ¬ chased from the Whitney stable S Ross entry of Grey Coat and Baron King is like ¬ wise held in high esteem as are Essare of the Jacques Stable and Soul of Honor from the Audley Farm Stable StableOld Old Pimlico never looked more beautiful than it does right now the home of the Maryland Jockey Club being old in name only improvements year after year convert ¬ ing this popular Baltimore course into one of the most modern in the East All prepa ¬ rations for the accommodation and enter ¬ tainment of the immense crowd certain to witness the Preakness have been completed The outlook is for clear weather and a fast track with the prospects of a wonderful race to delight the thousands and thousands who have or will come trom New York Wash ¬ ington pointsThe Philadelphia and adjacent points The Preakness will be run as the fourth race and the horses will go to the post about 4 15 p in inClem Clem McCarthy is here and will broadcast Continued on seventeenth page PREAKNESS STAKES TODAY Continued from first page the running of the race from the stewards stand standGovernor Governor Ritchie will be in attendance and will present to the owner of tli winner the historic Woodlawn Vase All of the boxes have been sold and a big delegation is looked for from New York Washington Phila ¬ delphia Boston and even as far west as Chicago ChicagoLast Last year the mutuel handled on the Preakness was 1175000 and manager Daiger predicts that this amount will be exceeded tomorrow provided pleasant weather pre ¬ vails vailsSeveral Several of the Preakness colts were breezed this morning Here are the trials they showed Four furlongs Folking 49 Leu cite 48 Beacon Hill 48 Slinotaur and African 51 Hermitage 50 Essare six furlongs 1 K Vs and Soul of Honor three furlongs 35 35Although Although somewhat obscured at times by the nationwide popularity of the Kentucky Derby the Preaknass Stakes is equal to the Derby in financial value in fact in the last three years its value to the winner has been greater than that of the Derby Each has an added value of 50000 but in 1928 the Preakness was worth an even 60000 to H P Whitneys Victorian while the amount that fell to Mrs John D Hertzs Reigh Count for winning the Derby was 55375 Display and Bostonian winners of the Preakness in 1926 and 1927 likewise took down slightly more than Bubbling Over and Whiskery for winning the Derby DerbyThe The Preakness has ranked with the big money races since 1919 the year Sir Barton won both this classic and the Derby the latter having been run first at that time Sir Bartons Derby victory was worth 20825 and his Preakness success brought him 24 500 The following year when ilan o War won the Preakness his share was 23000 23000The The added money in the Preakness grew to 40000 in 1921 and to 50000 in 1922 This also was the first year the Derby was worth in excess of 50000 to the winner winnerThis This was a tremendous gain in financial importance of both races over a span of a few years especially so in the case of the Preakness which only as far back as 1917 paid the winner only 4800 and the year be ¬ fore that 1916 carried a winners share of only 1380 1380The The Preakness antedates the Derby In origin by two years having been run the first time in 1873 but it was discontinued for eighteen years the period between 1SS9 and 1909 In its early history up to the time of its discontinuance the added money was only about 1000 1000Pimlicos Pimlicos great May feature differs from the Derby chiefly in that it eliminates geld ¬ ings only entire threeyearold colts and fil ¬ lies being eligible The distance is a mile and threesixteenths onesixteenth shorter than that of the Derby DerbyNo No winner of the Preakness has ever won the Derby except in the case of Sir Barton noted above in a year when the order of the running of the two events was reversed In 1927 the same stable that of H P Whitney won both races with Bostonian and Whis ¬ kery respectively Both colts went in the two races In 1928 the same stable repeated in the Preakness with Victorian as the medium
