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BOLD VENTURE FAVORITE FOR PREAKNESS Kentucky Derby Winner to Rule Pronounced Choice for Popular Pimlico Feature™ Fourteen Carded to Vie for Gross Prize of About 3,000---Outlook Bright for Clear Weather, a Fast Track and Attendance Taxing Capacity of Baltimore Course « BALTIMORE, Md., May 15. — With the Kentucky Derby winner, Bold Venture, as the outstanding favorite, an overnight field of fourteen colts and geldings was named for the forty-sixth running of the historic Preakness Stakes, that will bring an overflow crowd to Pimlico tomorrow afternoon. The Preakness is the second of the seasons traditional and important events for three-year-olds and has attracted five participants in the Derby and others that have displayed promise of leadership only recently. Bold Venture seeks to become the fifth colt to score a Preakness — . . Kentucky Derby double, and Morton L. Schwartz representative is certain to be — ISA il _!._•_ il i n rrr ine ciioice among tne tv,vvyj persons expected at Pimlico tomorrow. Cloudless skies, moderate temperature and a fast track are the conditions expected to prevail for this latest Preakness revival. The Maryland Jockey Club is adding 5,000 to the mile and three-sixteenths fixture, and with fourteen starters j the race will have a gross value of 3,850, I of which the winners net share will be | 8,825, with the second horse earning ,500, the third ,500 and the fourth 500. The I Preakness closed March 16 with seventy-four j nominations at 5 each, and the starting l fee is 00, which amount will be subtracted from the gross value for each declaration from the overnight field. EASTERN ATMOSPHERE. An eastern atmosphere pervades the Preakness, as only three of the candidates are owned by persons whose interests are centered elsewhere than along the Atlantic coast. | They are He Did and Hollyrood, respectively owned by Mrs. Silas B. Mason and Hal Price Headley, both of Lexington, Ky., and Grand | Slam, from the Detroit-owned Bomar Stable. i Edward Riley Bradley, whose colors will be | borne by Bow and Arrow, maintains a Blue Grass breeding farm, but his official residence ] and business interests are in Florida. No championship will be settled in the i Preakness running, but the public knows that • and is looking forward only to a clash among 1 good three-year-olds that will have a bear-j ing on determining the title later in the season. With Brevity in the field. Preakness I interest would be at a higher pitc* but it is ; doubtful if the absence of the J. E. Widener star will keep many persons away tomorrow. Bold Venture and Brevity must settle their differences at some future time. Bold Venture goes into his engagement in : prime condition. Trainer Max Hirsch is the authority for that statement. In view of his escapade at Belmont Park the other morning when his rider fell off at tie end of six furlongs of a nine furlongs workout, Bold Venture was sent a very slow mile this morning. Under heavy restraint all the way, the son of St. Germans and Possible went the half mile in :53, three-quarters in 1:19-5 and mile in 1:45%, never taking a long breath. HIRSCHS HIGH OPINION. Trainer Hirsch considers his protege the i equal of any three-year-old in the country and is confident he will continue his victorious march tomorrow, even though the abil-i ity of many of Bold Ventures opponents is i yet to be thoroughly tested. In his two starts | this season, the Schwartz colt accounted for j an allowance affair at Jamaica as well as ■ the Blue Grass classic. Post time odds against the favorite are likely to be in the neighborhood of 7 to 5 with most support for the others centering around the Wheatley Stable— Belair Stud entry of Teufel, Snark and Granville and the Greentree Stables Memory Book. Granville, with which William Woodward hopes to capture his third Preakness, Gallant Fox and Omaha having been his other winners, is out to make amends for his mishap in the Derby in which he unseated Jimmy Stout at the start. Stout again will handle the son of Gallant Fox and Gravita, which was beaten a nose by Teufel in the Wood Memorial Stakes. Teufel and Snark are the Wheatley Stable representatives, the former out to duplicate his successful performance in the Wood. Since that victory he has lost caste because of his failure to prove a factor in the Derby running. Snark is not considered a dangerous candidate and it is believed he will be used for pacemaking purposes as Teufel i3 a Continued on thirteenth page. I j | j I I ! I f I I I ■ I ; I j I I ; ; ; I I I | ! ! I | ! , ■ ■ | I ; : ! I j i j « BOLD VENTURE FAVORITE FOR PREAKNESS Continued from first page. colt that will benefit from a fast pace, lacking early speed himself. Memory Eook, beaten by Delphinium in j his lone start so far, has trained in satis- I factory fashion for the Preakness and be-| cause of his distance running ability, he is held in high favor hereabouts. The son j of St. Germans and Memento won the Spald-] ing Lowe Jenkins Handicap at Laurel last autumn, but didnt do so well in the Walden Handicap in which he was a close fourth to j Ned Reigh, Wise Duke and Challephen, but an error of judgment on Silvio Couccis part is blamed for his defeat in his only effort over the Pimlico course. The Bronx Italian will guide the Greentree colt tomorrow. The principal Maryland-trained candidates are as good as their trainers can make them. Grand Slam has done better since his return from Churchill Downs, although the manner in which he has gone about his training has not impressed observers, though it has been satisfactory to trainer R. E. Potts. Bow and Arrow, unbeaten in three starts, has done everything asked of him by William Hurley, while the preparation of Mrs. Marian Dupont Somervilles Transporter and Walter M. Jeffords Jean Bart has met with the approval of their mentors, Selby and Preston Burch. Giant Killer, the other Jeffords entry, will be a starter only if trainer Burch is successful in obtaining the services of a top notch jockey. Aneroid, owned by Edward Bruner, was an unexpected entry but he is regarded as a very doubtful starter as he has not been pointed for the race. Further-1 more, he was a contestant in a six furlongs dash here this afternoon. He Did. Santa Anita Derby winner, was the only certain starter not asked for speed this morning. With the exception of Bold Venture the others were confined to "blow outs" at three furlongs or a half mile. Jean Bart and Giant Killer went four furlongs together, the former being timed in :47%, breezing, and the latter in :48%, driving. Teufel and Granville went a half mile to-j gether in :50, easily. Snark also required the same time for the distance although working by himself. Bow and Arrow, accompanied by Black Widow, was tabbed the distance in :487s, handily; Grand Slams mark was :49-:,, handily; Transporter went in :50, and Holly-rood in :50-:i. Memory Book was confined to a three furlongs sprint in :35% with much in reserve. Promptly as the entries were opened at 7:30 oclock this morning, Guy Lunsford ap-I peared to enter the Greentree Stables Mem-I ory Book. Charles Kurtsinger, who will be astride He Did. entered the Mason colt in the ab- sence of trainer J. T. Taylor and Hal Price Headley arrived from Kentucky to sign Hol- lyroods entry blank. The last two colts entered were Knight Warrior and Aneroid, the two extreme outsiders. Mrs. W. W. Vaughans hope is a certain starter with Carl Hanford in the saddle, but Aneroids entry is believed to have been purely complimentary. The draw for post positions strangely reflected the order in .which the horses were entered. Memory Book drew the inside position, while the two members of the Jeffords entry and the Wheatley-Belair trio are all together in the five outside positions. Jean Bart and Giant Killer, being tenth and eleventh: Teufel, twelfth; Granville, thirteenth, and Snark fourteenth and outside. The stall gate can accommodate all of them. Bold Ventures overnight position is number five, but with Aneroid, which drew number three, dropping out, all but Memory Book and Transporter will move in one stall. The starting point is on the turn a slight distance from the straightaway, but the machine can be placed out in the track so that the horses will be in a position to break straight and clean as was the case in the Dixie Handicap last Saturday. Only seven races are on tomorrows program, the steeplechase being abandoned to permit the crowd to overflow into the center field, where wagering facilities will be provided. The first race will be called to the post at 2 oclock, fifteen minutes earlier than usual, and the Preakness is expected to reach the post at 5 oclock or shortly after. It will be broadcast by Clem McCarthy over an NBC hookup. It was learned this aftrenoon that D. A. Headley, trainer of Holly rood had made overtures to Tommy Luther to handle the High Cloud colt in the Preakness. but the matter had not been definitely decided at a late hour.
