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MARYLANDS 0,000 PREAKNESS STAKES TODAY , Burgoo King Rules the Pronounced Favorite « Twelve of Best Colts in Training to Vie for Honors in Old Established Eastern Event. Kentucky Derby Winner Seeks New Laurels. Tick On After Revenge for Derby Defeat. Tremendous Crowd Expected to Tax Accommodations of Popular Pimlico Track, « BALTIMORE, Md., May 13.— Twelve of the best three-year-olds in training are programmed to go to the post in the $."0,000 added Preakness Stakes at Pimlico tomorrow. Three of them. Burgoo King, Tick On and Lucky Tom, sported silks in the running of the Kentucky Derby last week. Everything is set for a big day. The prospects are for a good track, and with a field that is not unwieldy a truly run contest should result. At the present writing it appears as though the footing will be in good condition, but not fast. Reports have it that Burgoo King favors firm, hard going and that some of the others fancy soft footing best. Tick On, which has been here since Sunday, has taken to his work kindly and his deportment has improved. Trainer Max Hirsch looks for the son of On Watch to sbe more settled than he was at the post at Churchill Downs. H. C. Riddle is not discouraged by Lucky Toms poor showing in the Derby and predicts that his colt will be a keen factor in tomorrows struggle. "He had no chance in the Derby," said Riddle. "The colt was jammed about and never had an opportunity of getting settled in his stride at any time during the running." BURGOO KING READY. Dick Thompson had the following to say about Burgoo King: "I dont see why Burgoo King can not duplicate his victory in the A Derby. He shipped well from Louisville to m Belmont Park and made the trip from Long Island here in good shape. He is just as good a horse as he was a week ago and with any sort of racing luck they will find him a hard nut to crack." Of the ninety-six nominations for the Preakness, five were fillies, among them Top Flight. All of the twelve named to start tomorrow are colts. The absence of Top Flight undoubtedly robs the race of some of its interest, but the field is such a well-matched one that a stirring contest should result. Those who witnessed the running of the Derby all agree that that race was not a truly run one. Tick Ons chances were ruined by his erratic behavior at the barrier, and Lucky Tom was jammed out of it soon after the start. The handicappers have made Burgoo King the favorite for the Preakness at 2 to 1. and the Loma-Schwartz entrv secand choice at 5 to 2. Max Hirsch announced that A. Robertson would have the mount on Tick On, while P. Walls will be on Barcelona Pete. E. James will have the mount on Burgoo King and E. Sande will be astride Mad Pursuit. BOATSWAIN ON EDGE. Preston Burch is sending a good horse to the post in Boatswain, and B. Hanford, who has been riding in great form here this spring, will be in the saddle. E. Steffen is coming down to ride the Greentree Stables Curacao and J. Gilbert will be on the Glen Riddle Farm Stables entry. War Hero. The latter has been troubled with a sore mouth, which interfered with his training some. The Coldstream Stud Stables Marmion will have M. Lewis as pilot. H. Richards will ; have the mount on Lucky Tom. No riders i have been named for Gusto, Portam and Daisaburo. The Preakness will be run as the fifth race. The horses will be called to the post about 4:15. If all twelve horses start in the Preakness, the winners share will be 1,000. General manager Matthias L. Daiger has made arrangements to handle 35,000 spectators. The steeplechase will be run as the days opener, which will permit the overflow to take up places of vantage in the infield immediately after the jumping test is com-" pleted. It has been well over half a century since the first Preakness was run at Pimlico. The Preakness course 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, triumphed over Jordan and Co.s locally-owned John Bulger, with H. P. McGraths Artist third. There were twenty-one subscribers, seven starters, and the time for the mile and a half was 2:43, and the value to the winner was ,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 1 Continued on tu-cnty-scventh page. C j€ h the _. u th the pc of of sp th the .. ™ the » th ol of w b. J. J. B h his j« 01 V W. F r g1 p s C a h v, E h t to t ii it w • t S a Y c 1 r 1 , 1 1 t ,. . . J . * x j r . « ; . , . . , ,. i , ■ n ! J _ . . j q 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0,000 PREAKNESS STAKES Continued from first page. Jersey, was a victor in the sporting event, Dinner Party, afterwards famous as the Dixie Stakes. From this modest beginning, Preakness has grown in value and importance until now it is recognized as one the greatest of American racing classics. The Preakness was always run at the spring meeting, and originally the Dixie at autumn meeting. The only colts to win "double event" were Tom Ochiltree, Duke of Magenta, Grenada and The Bard, three-year olds, acknowledged to be the best their years. In The Bards year, 1886. a splendid field went to the post in the Preakness, and a better one it would be hard to duplicate. A. Cassatts handsome son of Longfellow and Bradamante, ridden by Sam Fisher, defeated stablemate, Eurus, by Eolus dam Majestic, J. McLaughlin up, with Elkwood, another son of Eolus, Minnie Andrews, with Donohue in the saddle, third. Eolus, sire of three of the starters in the Preakness that year, owned by Maj. T. W. Doswell of Bullfield, Va., was not only a good race horse himself, but his get had stamina as well as speed. Walter Gratz of Philadelphia came very near winning the Saratoga Cup later with Elkwood. In the Cup Elkwood was ridden by the well known amateur, Harry Kirkwood, one of the finest horsemen in America, and Mr. Harwood always maintained he would have won with Elkwood if he had been allowed to follow his own judgment instead of riding strictly orders. The Preakness is essentially a race for 4 the sterner sex, as only two fillies have won 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 Pimlico Oaks at the same meeting. In 1919 Sir Barton won the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby, the only horse to hold that record until Gallant Fox duplicated the feat in 1930. The mighty Man o War was the Preak- ness winner of 1920 and none doubt that he would have added the Kentucky Derby to his credit if his owner had started him in the noted blue grass fixture. HOW VALUE INCREASED. In 1909 the added money in the Preakness was only ,000. This has been increased 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 Pre;ikness by Thomas Clyde, who obtained permanent pos- session of it through the prowess of Short Hose. The Woodlawn Vase is a beautiful speci-men of the silversmiths art, of massive and appropriate design, and was made by Tif- fany in 1860 to the order of Col. R. A. Alex-.. ander of Kentucky, who presented it for competition to the Woodlawn Association of Louisville, Ky. The first winner was the grand mare, Molly Jackson, owned by Captain Morris, who also won it the succeeding year with Idlewild, the dam of the famous four-miler, Wild Idle. During the Civil War the vase was buried with the rest of the family plate, and on the resumption of racing in 1866 it was captured by Harry of the West, followed by Merrill. Then the Dwyer Brothers won it through the victory, in the American Stallion Stakes, in Louisville in 1877, of the sterling race horse and sire Bramble. The Coney Island Jockey Club, to which it was transferred by the Dwyers, was the next scene of a contest for the vase in 1885, when F. Gebbards celebrated Eole won it by defeating Major Doswells Bushwacker over the four-mile route. Miss Woodford, considered one of the greatest mares of all time, brought it back to the Dwyers two years in succession, Pickpocket winning it m next and then Raceland in 1893. Sir Excess and Banquet won it from each other on the following occasions it was put in competition, then Gold Heels captured it at Morris Park in 1901 and Advance Guard in 1902. This brings the history of the Woodlawn Vase down to 1905, when, as above stated, Short Hose added it to the permanent collection of the Philadelphia sportsman, Thomas Clyde. When Mr. Clyde turned it over to the Maryland Jockey Club as a trophy for the Preakness, 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, however, of the successive winning owners since 1917, the Woodlawn Vase has been annually added to the Preakness, and has come to be identified with this historic trophy.
