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REVIVE PREAKNESS IN 1909 « Famous Pimlico Feature Renewed After Lapse of Several Years. » ■ Increased Value in 1918 Attracts Best Three-Year-Olds in Training— Brilliant Prospects This Year. ♦ BALTIMORE, Md., May 2— After a lapse of several years the Preakness Stakes was revived in 1909 and W. T. Ryans Effendi, ridden by Willie Doyle, now patrol judge on all Maryland tracks, defeated a moderate field of nine, the net value to winner being ,725 and 00 in plate. The distance was one mile, time 1:39%. not bad for Pimlico and Effendi carried 116 pounds. The top weight. Statesman, 126 pounds, ridden by Dugan, broke down in the stretch. In 1910. Capt. E. B. Cassatt, son of the owner of The Bard, winner of the Preakness in 1886, captured the stake with Layminster, and in 1911 August Belmonts colt, Water-vale, was the winner, the distance having been increased to one mile and a furlong. Watervale established the record for the track on this occasion, the first mile being run in 1:37% and the route in 1:51, which has never been equalled over Pimlico. When the value of the Preakness was increased in 1918, the quality of the contestants improved to a marked degree and we find among the subsequent victors the names of such high-class thoroughbreds as Sir Barton, winner of the "triple crown," the Preakness, Kentucky Derby, and Belmont; the peerless Man o War; Broomspun, Pillory; Nellie Morse, winner of the "Double Event," the Pimlico Oaks, and Preakness; the game but patched up Coventry; Display, the "Iron Horse," the Whitney cracks Bostonian and Victorian; the erratic Dr. Fre eland and in 1930, last year, Gallant Fox, which duplicated Sir Bartons feat of eleven years before by capturing all three of the great three-year-old features held at Pimlico. Churchill Downs and Belmont Park. The entries for the 1931 renewal of the Preakness, to be run on Saturday, May 9, are up to the standard of previous years and include the greatest three-year-olds in training. Chief interest centers in Equipoise, the magnificent son of Pennant and Swinging, which will carry the famous light blue, brown cap of C. V. Whitney. His rival of last year, the Greentree Stables Twenty Grand, by the imported St. Germans, which has a host of admirers who consider him the equal of, if not superior to anything on the list, is also a likely starter, and in Mate, by Prince Pal — Killashandra, the popular amateur rider A. C. Bostwick seems to have a colt likely to atone for a long series of disappointments in last years events. Much is expected of Instigator, owned by the Oak Ridge Stable of Clendenning Ryan, and a winner in England last year. His trainer. Johnny Loftus, who rode A. K. Ma-combers War Cloud to victory in the Preakness of 1918, knows what is expected of a winner in this race and will undoubtedly have him trained to the minute, while R. F. Carman, Jr., trainer of the Nevada Stock Farms Siskin, by Epinard, has had his eye on the Preakness for some time, having wintered his charge at Pimlico, where he did everything that was asked of him. Insco. by the same sire as Gallant Fox, owned by Griffin Watkins, is receiving his Preakness preparation in Kentucky and is said to be in good shape. Pittsburgher has also been training well, with Vander Pool an unknown quantity. Whether the winner will come from the list or from such promising material as Knights Call, Sir Ashley, Ormesby, Avalon, Aknahton. Great Gun, Sun Meadow, Aegis, Egad. Mowris, Ladder, Soil Gills, Blenheim, Ilium or others of the ninety nominations remains to be seen, but that the Preakness will be a race worthy of its predecessors is a foregone conclusion. Through the courtesy of William Woodward, chairman of The Jockey Club, and proprietor of the Belair Stud in Prince Georges County, Maryland, whose great colt Gallant Fox captured the Preakness last year, the famous Woodlawn Vase will again be awarded to the victor of the coming renewal. A small duplicate of this beautiful piece of silver goes to the winning owner and is a trophy well worth winning for its historical associations, no less than for its intrinsic value. *
