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CAVALCADE CAVALCADE ADDS LUSTER TO PREAKNESS FIELD Capacity Crowd Expected to Greet Derby Winner at Old Pirnlico Mrs Sloanes Crack Colt to Have Stableniate High Quest as Running Partner Discovery Con ¬ sidered Most Dangerous Rival BALTIMORE Md May 11 Twentyfive to thirty thousand men and women will gather at the small and oldfashioned Pimlico track tomorrow because it has been a habit of people of the Baltimore racing area to see Preakness revivals Not to show at atPimlico Pimlico Preakness Day is to argue oneself out of sports A gallop of one mile and threesixteenths for threeyearolds this fa ¬ mous race named for a celebrated race horse has been renewed off and on since 1873 Its inaugural antedates the institution of the more widely known Kentucky Derby by two years but it has not been run con ¬ tinuously If there have been a couple of lapses in its history it has at least been a regular Pimlico spring feature from 1909 from which year such famous horses as Watervale Buskin War Cloud Jack Hare Jr Sir Barton Man o War Broomspun Pillory Vigil Nellie Morse Coventry Dis ¬ play Bostonian Victorian Gallant Fox Mate Burgoo King and Head Play have written their names on the roster of its winners Tomorrows Preakness will be the fortyfourth It will carry an added money value of 25000 and if all nine of the colts named this afternoon tn ctnrf taim tvi ir places in their stalls about 5 oclock tomorrow afternoon it will gross 30700 its pay winner about 25000 the second horse 2500 the third 1500 and the fourth 500 If no more rain falls the going which was a trifle off this afternoon in consequence of a downpour of several hours that began as the last race yesterday was being run will have dried out thoroughly and the winner may set a new race and track record That Cavalcade is capable of doing something of the sort he demonstrated at Havre de Grace when he won his first threeyearold race in 141 equalling the track mark and lower ¬ ing the track record for one mile and a sixteenth to 143 143There There will be crowding tomorrow because the Pimlico grandstand seats only 12000 The clubhouse is grotesquely small but there is plenty of standing room between the grandstand and the track and much of this is terraced in such fashion as to enable persons who cant find shelter and seats in the grandstand to see pretty well wellIn In spite of background and high value the fortyfourth Preakness does not hold today the anticipating interest the sixtieth Ken ¬ tucky Derby did a week ago today The reason is that it looks too much like a cer ¬ tainty that the winner will come from the stable of Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloane Col by virtue of Governor Ruby Laffoons Ken ¬ tucky commission Bob Smith seems to have Continued on twentyeighth page CAVALCADE ADDS LUSTER TO PREANKESS FIELD Continued from first page decided that Anarchy which he wired yes ¬ terday from New York would come down with Cavalcade and High Quest is not to start But unless he changes his mind or Mrs Dodge Sloane changes hers Cavalcade and High Quest will go and Smith believes them capable of running onetwo onetwoSmith Smith professes to be in doubt as to the identity of the better colt Last year he considered High Quest a son of Sir Gallahad in and Etoile Filante for which Mrs Dodge Sloane had paid 3500 at the auction block at Saratoga in August 1932 and with which he won an Eastern Shore Handicap at Havre de Grace last September the best twoyearold of the Brookmeade Stable Perhaps High Quest ran a better race at Saratoga in the Hopeful in which he fin ¬ ished second to Bazaar and beat very nearly every other good twoyearold of the East than he did in the Eastern Shore Cavalcade won a Hyde Park renewal at Arlington Park in July but he did not look good at Saratoga in August or in Maryland in September October and November NovemberNow Now Smith is in a quandary Cavalcades astonishingly fast races at Havre de Grace and his probably more brilliant performance in the sixtieth Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs have profoundly impressed this vet ¬ eran and highly capable trainer as they have the rest of racing folk But his faith in High Quest remains unshaken It was his idea to send High Quest alone in the Preak ness and to save Cavalcade for engagements in the American Derby and Arlington Clas ¬ sic revivals Running Cavalcade it is said is Mrs Dodge Sloanes notion The mistress of Brookmeade wants Cavalcade to win the double crown of American May racing if he is able Three horses have achieved that distinction in the past Sir Barton in 1920 Gallant Fox in 1930 and Burgoo King in 1932 1932If If Smith is right about High Quest and the Brookmeade entry has no bad racing luck tomorrow High Quest and Cavalcade ought to finish onetwo whichever proves under the gruelling conditions of racing the gamer taking the big end of the Preakness Stakes StakesThe The most formidable of the other prospec ¬ tive starters seem to be A G Vanderbilts Discovery a son of the Display referred to as an earlier Preakness winner Frank Car reauds Time Supply Mrs Helen Hay Whit ¬ neys Spy Hill and Mrs F J Hellers Agrarian Cavalcade defeated Agrarian twice at Havre de Grace and in the Ken ¬ tucky Derby He whipped Discovery in the Chesapeake and in the Derby Spy Hill in the Derby and Time Supply in the Chesa ¬ peake Each of these races he won with consummate ease In the Derby he packed 126 pounds and demonstrated by racing from behind in the last quarter that he did not mind weight and would run any dis ¬ tance If Mrs Dodge Sloane has another such horse in High Quest she not only has the Preakness sewed up but very nearly all the other big threeyearold specials as well wellBill Bill Brennan trainer of the Greentree Stable has admitted that he does not con ¬ sider Spy Hill as good a colt as Cavalcade but he feels that he must take a chance nevertheless Buddy Stotler trainer of the establishment of young Vanderbilt is not yet ready to admit that Cavalcade is better than Discovery in spite of the way his Dis ¬ play colt was beaten at Havre de Grace and Churchill Downs and will back his opin ¬ ion tomorrow He is very skeptical as to High Quest QuestA A good many students of form look for a surprise race from Time Supply That son of Time Maker which was exceptionally good hereabouts last fall and won a couple of stakes in Florida in the winter ran an astonishingly good race in the Chesapeake after rather a bad beginning beginningThe The dockers at Pimlico hold that there is no better threeyearold in Maryland MarylandHiskulus Hiskulus which belongs to Norman Church the owner also of Gallant Sir and Plucky Play comes last with the reputation of having won an Agua Caliente Derby and finishing second to Gallant Sir in an Agua Caliente Handicap An attack of colic kept this son of Stimulus out of the Kentucky Derby He seems to be all right today but eastern racing folks have always discounted California racing form
