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DIXIE HANDICAP TODAY i Hard Fought Contest Expected in 0,000 Added Pimlico Feature. -— » ■ - Stand Pat Top Weight of Overnight Entries — Preakness Candidate in the Palmetto Purse. - ■ BALTIMORE, Md., May 8.— The Dixie Handicap, traditional spring feature for older horses on the Maryland Jockey Clubs program, will be run for the thirteenth time at old Pimlico tomorrow with eight campaigners seeking the major share of the 0,000 added prize. Another day of summer weather is likely and the second largest crowd of the meeting is indicated. Usually the Preakness has been scheduled for this Saturday, but the three-year-old classic will conclude the meeting a week hence. In support of the Dixie, which is over the mile and three-sixteenths distance, will be the Palmetto Purse, in which a number of Preakness candidates, including Jean Bart and Giant Killer, will perform. The Dixie field lacks an outstanding candidate and a hard fought contest appears likely. Top weight over the overnight entries is the durable Stand Pat, owned by E. F. Seagram, which must take up 116 pounds. The veteran son of John P. Grier was second to Black Gift in the Philadelphia Handicap at Havre de Grace in his last start. Black Gift was not nominated for the Dixie. Rated one pound under Stand Pat is the Brookmeade Stables Good Goods which was shipped from New York especially for the engagement. George Woolf is coming to guide the horse. Handicapped at 113 pounds each are J. W. Y. Martins Dark Hope and R. A. Moores Thursday. The former has trained well for the Dixie, while Thursday, two time winner of the Riggs Handicap, the autumn companion of the race, also came from New York. First Minstrel, which will carry 112 pounds, will be the representative of the Greentree Stable, but as he has not been victorious since his comeback he is regarded as one of the outsiders. The Howe Stables Cycle and W. H. Fursts Mantagna at 110 pounds each .and A. G. Vanderbilts Gallant Mac, handicapped at 109, complete the field. With all eight starting, the Dixie will have a gross value of 2,475, of which the winners net share will be ,500. The second horse will earn ,500, the third ,000 and the fourth 50. Roman Soldier, which performed impressively early in the week in his first race of the year, was not named for the Dixie by trainer Phil Reuter, who said the four-year-old wasnt quite ready for a gruelling effort at a mile and three-sixteenths. -
