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PASSING I UP PREAKNESS Brookmeade Stable to Rely Upon j 1 the Speedy High Quest Cavalcade Will Not Start in Pim Pimlicos licos Rich Three Year Old Prize PrizeAccording According to Trainer BALTIMORE Md May 7 The an ¬ nouncement from headquarters that the Chesapeake Stakes and the Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade is not to start in the Preakness Stakes next Saturday is taken by the turf fans to mean that Robert A Smith is supremely confident that he can win the second major threeyearold special of the season for Mrs Isabelle Dodge Sloane with High Quest QuestIf If this is so High Quest must have done mighty well since his victory in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica and racing folks here ¬ about are anxious to see what he looks like at three The last view they had of him was in the Eastern Shore Handicap revival at Havre de Grace last September in which he defeated Cavalcade along with Discovery Chicstraw and others but not in a manner that suggested he had anything on Caval ¬ cade The English colt was gaining on him in the last sixteenth of that race of six fur ¬ longs longsIn In the Chesapeake and the Kentucky Derby Cavalcade has looked a natural dis ¬ tance runner It cannot be said that High Quest did in the Wood Memorial although it is easily possible that he was not as fit at Jamaica as Cavalcade was at Havre de Grace a week ago Saturday or at Churchill Downs last Saturday However if Smith holds to this threat to keep Cavalcade in his quarters next Saturday and sends High Quest out either alone or with the slow be ¬ ginning Time Clock Florida Derby winner the Brookmeade entry will go to the post favorite Smiths work last year with In ¬ lander and this year with Time Clock Cav ¬ alcade and High Quest has won for him the highest confidence of Maryland turf fans fansFifteen Fifteen or twenty other trainers today are entertaining hope that they may have some ¬ thing worth taking a 500 chance for about 30000 next Saturday but it is not likely that more than ten or twelve will line up against the Brookmeade aspirant The most prob ¬ able starters seem to be Discovery Time Continued on twentysixth page PASSING UP PREAKNESS PREAKNESSContinacd Continacd from first page Supply Bazaar Sir Thomas Agrarian Spy Hill Round Table Snappy Story Sgt Byrne Collateral Jabot Glendye and Soon Over OverAfter After High Quest Discovery and Agrarian the public hereabouts are most interested in Time Supply That son of the rather obscure stallion Time Maker which was exceptionally smart hereabout last fall ran a very impressive race in the Chesapeake Prevented by sickness from starting in the Florida Derby after he had won one Hialeah race he came to Maryland a very doubtful threeyearold prospect His performance in the Chesapeake indicated that he had fully recovered his health and his form Away very badly he made up ground fast on the far turn and home stretch to finish on the heels of the threo that divided the purse His recent work has been flattering He is to have a preparatory race this week the press box has been informed informedThe The consideration given Discovery and Agrarian next Saturday hangs in the way they recover from the effects of their trip from Churchill Downs to Pimlico Sunday SundayTraveling Traveling in such weather as prevailed yesterday and today is hard on race horses Bazaar heroine of last summers Hopeful and last falls Jenkins Memorial has lost caste Smart twoyearold fillies rarely race at three to the promise of their juvenile form
