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RENEW HOSTILITIES IN PREAKNESS » 1 Brokers Tip and Head Play to Clash Again Next Saturday at Pimlico — Aftermath of Kentucky Derby • LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 8.— Brokers Tip and Head Play, heroes of the Kentucky Derby, will renew hostilities in the 5,000 added Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Saturday. The Derby winner, along with the eastern colts which failed badly in the Derby, left Churchill Downs shortly before noon Sunday and all unloaded at Pimlico this morning. Head Play started the eastward trip Monday morning and is due at Pimlico about 9 oclock Tuesday morning. Without exception, the eastern three-year-olds, completely $ overwhelmed by Brokers Tip, Head Play and Charley O. in Saturdays race, are scheduled to start in the Preakness. They are: Ladysman, Pomponius, Kerry Patch, Mr. Khayyam, Good Advice, Dark Winter and Inlander. The ill-fated Trace Call and Sarada, which developed a fever and cough, respectively, after reaching Churchill Downs a few days before the Derby, will not be moved for several days. Trace Calls temperature has been normal for two days, but Sarada stC was coughing this morning. Mr. Khayyam, the only Derby casualty, suffered a minor cut on one of his heels. The injury hardly is serious enough to interfere with his training and racing and the Chesapeake Stakes winner probably will be trying to redeem himself at Pimlico Saturday. While horsemen are far from agreed on the question of whether the best horse won, many regard the victor as a potential champion and are certain that Head Play will be a serious, if not successful bidder, for the three-year-old crown. Basing their opinion on Saturdays race, many horsemen believe there is little difference between the Bradley and Mason colts. Praise for both has come from every side, and they will have strong Continued on twenty-third page. : r * J I l » . . i , . j , . i 1 j • 1 ■ RENEW HOSHLITIES AT PIMUCO Continued from first page. western backing to sweep Preakness honors. Some horsemen feel that if jockey Fisher had kept Head Play closer to the rail in the stretch he would have won sure, but others are just as certain that if the Bradley colt had enjoyed better racing luck during the early racing he would have registered by a clear margin. Despite his defeat, those who had hoped to see Charley O. in front, were not discouraged by his race. J. T. Taylor, trainer of the Eastman estate racer, announced this morning that the full brother to Mike Hall would not start in the Preakness. While opinions as to the better one of the two that fought it out in the closest and most spectacular finish in Derby racing since Ben Brush, one to two in the betting and ridden by Simms. defeated Ben Eder in 1896, the year the route was reduced from one mile and a half to the present mile and one-quarter, differ, nothing with the slight- est hue of an alibi was offered in behalf of Ladysman, decisively beaten favorite and chief hope of the East. J. H. Stotler, trainer of Ladysman, was greatly disappointed by the complete overthrow of the 1932 juvenile champion. When loading Ladysman along with his Derby run- ning mate, Pomponius, and other of the W. R. Coe horses Sunday, Stotler made a feeble attempt at excuse, saying "They may not have liked the track." Only a scattering of the great army of sports lovers who crowded Louisville and Churchill Downs Saturday could be found in todays crowd at the historic track. Thousands of them got away immediately after the Derby program and departures Sunday crowded all trains and highways, hundreds of parties that motored here preferring to make the homeward jaunt by daylight.
