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OLD LINE STATE LEADERS Triumph in Preakness Stakes StakesAlmost Almost a Guarantee of First FirstPlace Place in Money Winnings Victory in the Preakness Stakes plays a big part in deciding the leading money winning owner each year in Maryland Of course a triumph in the rich Pimlico threeyearold prize is not an absolute guarantee that the owner of the winner will finish the year as leader but the part the race plays in the final summing up may be easily seen by com ¬ paring the value of the race with the amount of money won by each one of the leading owners ownersIt It so happens that Dr Freeland owned by W J Salmon won the Preakness Stakes in 1929 The net value to the winner was 53 325 Mr Salmons horses carried 108870 in all during the year in the Old Line state Victorian owned by Harry Payne Whitnsy won in li 28 Mr Whitney led the owners with a total of 90437 Victorian earned GO000 of this in the Preakness Stakes StakesWhitney Whitney horses finished first and third in 1927 and again the New York sportsman finished the year as Marylands leading money winning owner His total was 147 565 the greatest amount ever falling to an owner in the state Of that sum Bos tonians first money of 53100 and Whisk erys third money made up considerably more than a third Again in 192G Mr Whitney was the leader although he did not furnish the winner of the rich Pimlico race W J Sal ¬ mons brilliant Display was the winner that year yearThe The Preakness Stakes winner and the lead ¬ ing money winning owner in 1925 were again separate in 1925 G A Cochrans Coventry scoring and J E Griffith leading the owners ownersIn In ial4 however H C Bud Fisher noted cartoonist had not only the satisfaction of furnishing the winner of the Preakness Stakes in his filly Nellie Morse but also of leading the owners and of his years total of 58950 Nellie Morses first money in the Preakness made up nearly all of it or 54000 54000So So it has gone in the years earlier than those to which attention lias been called The owner of the Preakness winner had a ninety per cent chance of bsing the leading money winning owner in Maryland MarylandThe The leading owners in Maryland from 1915 to 1929 are shown below Year Owner Amount 1115 II G ItciUvell 14 UOr UOr1U1G 1U1G II G lictlwell UVJOO 1917 W Viau 127173 1018 J K L Ross 43275 432751JlJ 1JlJ J K L Ross 123001 1920 7 K LRoss 83G 1021 II P Whitney 82213 1022 It T Wilson 00882 1023 J S Cosileu 85850 1024 II C Fisliw 85050 1025 J K Griffith 103124 103124102i 102i II 1 AVhitney 98705 1927 II 1 Whitney 117505 1028 II P MVhitney 1020 W J Salmon
