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FOUR PREAKNESS ELIGIBLES Fail to Show Enough to Warrant Starting Them in Big Race Sea Fox Defeats Quartet in Main Offering Offeringat at Pimlico Mishap in Steeplechase Steeplechasebut but Riders Escape Injury BALTIMORE Md May 7 Four eligibles for the 25000 Preakness which vill he re ¬ newed here next Saturday with High Quest Discovery Agrarian and other proven stars competing if all goes well with those flyers started in the fourth a condition race for threeyearolds and over at one mile and seventy yards That was one of the features of rather an indifferent card and when Sea Fox packed 117 pounds and beat them a crowd of 6500 or 7000 decided that none of them would do The one that came nearest to qualifying was George Willing Jrs Swiftsport a son of Swift and Sure and Sportswoman which finished noses and tail with Sea Fox A wide stretch of daylight separated Swiftsport from Jungle King which has been a failure for more than a year and he beat the other pretenders namely S P Metcalfs Snappy Story half brother of Snap Back the Mamere Farms Somebody a winner earlier in the meeting and Sylvester W Labrots Round Table a winner at Havre de Grace Swiftsport packed 105 pounds Round Table and Snappy Story 107 each and Somebody 109 109Perhaps Perhaps Somebody had an excuse On the inside all the way he was blocked twice when Litzenberger tried to send him along on the rail He was going gamely enough as he finished seventh still on the inside insideThere There were ten starters and Cant Remem ¬ ber a Marylandbred son of Canter belong ¬ ing to Frank Hayes showed the way to the middle of the far turn crowded hard by Swiftsport Sea Fox and Jungle King Swift sport had his muzzle in front as the field headed into the home stretch but Sea Fox caught him a furlong out and gradually edged forward to a lead of a length which he maintained to the end He finished in 144 144Another Another hot day and another fast track trackNeither Neither of the riders that fell in the stee ¬ plechase were seriously hurt hurtYoung Young C V Whitneys Jabot twice beaten at Havre de Grace by Cavalcade but another Preakness possibility nevertheless made a show of six other fillies in the fifth a dash of six furlongs which the clerk of the course called the Lady Baltimore An oddson favorite Jabot loafed easily behind the pace which the Howe Stables High Torque a daughter of High Cloud and Torque cut out to the turn for home Then she took charge and the result was no longer in doubt doubtHigh High Torque several lengths back had all she could do to keep the oncoming Bright Phantom from finishing second Bright Phantom is owned by Hobson McGehee manager of Bernard B Jones Audley Farm where she and High Torque were bred bredMrs Mrs John Hay Whitneys Brown Witch and Mrs Helen Hay Whitneys Miss Mouse both good twoyearolds disappointed keenly There was some support for Brown Witch an exceptionally comely daughter of Brown Bud and Apparition The Branncastle Stables High Image a son of High Cloud and Imagination paid 101 straight 4730 place and 2030 to show when he outran eleven includingCandimate a hot favorite and Sun Teaparty a strong second choice in the first at four furlongs and a half for maiden twoyearolds of claiming class classCandimate Candimate a son of WestyHogan in H T Archibalds stable ran out in a race at Havre de Grace that he seemed to be win ¬ ning and Workman let him do it again On top of that after Candimate had run wide Workman pulled him over to the rail again straightening him and steadied him down in the middle of the track This clumsy handling probably coat Candimate the race He was beaten only a nose and a head the long shot from Frederick County getting the verdict from Strolling Miss for the big end of the purse by the narrowest of recordable margins Kurtsinger rode as badly He got Sun Teaparty in a jam at the turn into the home stretch and had to pull up Sun Teaparly had been one of the early pace ¬ makers with the winner Strolling Miss and Candimate CandimateMrs Mrs R H Heighe and W M Shewbridge have made applications for stalls for the forthcoming meeting at Thorncliff e Park In Toronto
