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nnAonrrTiiFF nirr A inkiroc1 nnn PROSPECTIVE nnnPROSPECTIVE PREAKNESS FIELD Cavalcades Trial Today May Induce Trainer Smith to Start Derby Winner High Quest and Time Clock Will Represent Stable Stablein in Event of Cavalcades Absence Spy Hill Hilland and Agrarian Work Impressively BALTIMORE Md May 9 The prospective field for the Preakness Stakes to be run Saturday may be made up of these horses Brookmeade Stables High Quest and Caval ¬ cade Greentree Stables Spy Hill Mrs F A Carreauds Time Supply Mrs Frank Hellers Agrarian Northway Stables Riskulus H P Metcalfs Snappy Story John Simonettis Sgt Byrne Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Discovery Mrs John Hay Whitneys Singing Wood and George Willings Swiftsport If Smith does not start Cavalcade it is likely that he will send the Florida Derby winner Time Clock with High Quest Whatever Bob Smith may elect to do about High Quest son of Sir Gallahad III and Etoile Filante and winner of last falls Eastern Shore Handicap at Havre de Grace and this springs Wood Memorial at Jamaica and Cavalcade winner this year of the Chesa ¬ peake and Kentucky Derby Spy Hill and Agrarian will start in Saturdays Preakness PreaknessSpy Spy Hill which finished third to High Quest and Speedmore in the Wood Memorial but did not do so well in the Derby at Louis ¬ ville last Saturday will bear the Greentree silks of Mrs Helen Hay Whitney and he seems to be her best threeyearold today Soon Over one of her two other Preakness eligibles is hot apparently as sound as he might be and Black Buddy winner of last years Juvenile and National Stallion Stakes at Belmont Park does not appear to be ready readyA A son of Buchan he half brother of St Germans the daddy of Twenty Grand and Marvella II Spy Hill is an outlander Mrs Whitney got him at one of the FasigTipton Companys yearling sales at Saratoga a year ago last August and he licked High Quest at New Yorks upstate course in a sprint for maidens in which Mrs Dodge Sloanes Sir Gallahad III colt made his debut His work this morning was a mile and a furlong in 154 the mile in 141 He did it very easily and Bill Brennan head trainer of the Greentree Stable was content To Brennan it indicated fitness Brennan cant be san ¬ guine of success Saturday in the Maryland Jockey Clubs 25000 gallop of one mile and threesixteenths but he will be disappoint ¬ ment if Spy Hill does not show considerable improvement over his Kentucky Derby form The work of Agrarian son of Sickle and Mary Jane which will bear the silks of Mrs Frank J Heller was a mile and a quarter in 213 flat He was on the bit from the start and trainer George Strate was delighted with the way he cooled out Agrarian which has done more racing since New Years than any other Preakness pros ¬ pect appears to be as fresh as a horse just out of winter quarters His score is four Continued on second page PROSPECTIVE PREAKNESS HELD HELDContinued Continued from first page yins eight seconds arid a third in thirteen starts The contender hehind Mrs Dodge Sloanes Time Clock in the Florida Derby he was the contender behind Cavalcade in the Chesapeake in whjchjie beat Discovery Cavalcade and Discovery were the only horses that licked him in the Kehtucky Derby Agrarians daddy Sicklej is an Eng ¬ lishbred son of that brilliantly successful stock horse Phalaris Joseph E Widener bought him several years ago from Lord Derby and he is serving noy at Elmendorf Farm in Kentucky with Chance Shot and Haste Agrarian good hereabout last fall while he was still rated only a high class plater is very popular in Maryland He will have a following Saturday no matter what Smith may do about High Quest and Cavalcade Thomas J Healey has stated definitely that Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney will not start1 anything although his colts Roustabout Fogbound and Collateral and the filly Jabot are eligible A J Joyner has said that neither Chicstraw nor Kawagoe eligibles of George D Wideners stable are ready
