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PIMLICOS GATES OPEN Preakness Stakes, May 15, Heads List of Attractions. Dixie Handicap, 0,000 Added, to Be Bun May 8, Same Day as Kentucky Derby. PIMLICO, Md., April 28. The final major spring race meeting in Maryland gets under way tomorrow at Pimlico when the fifteen-day session at the Hilltop course of the Maryland Jockey Club will be inaugurated. The excellent program of stakes and overnight features that have been arranged by racing secretary Frank J. Bryan, coupled with the consistent increase in attendance and mutuel handle that have been enjoyed by the two preceding meetings in the state this spring, augur well for the success of the session. In addition to the regular program of flat racing, Pimlico also offers a steeplechase each day. These contests through the field have always proved popular with patrons, and starter James Milton and his crew have been busier than in many years preparing the leapers for their tasks. Heading the stakes to be contested is the Preakness, the states feature for three-year-olds. This mile and three-sixteenths test will have its forty-seventh renewal this year and will be run Saturday, May 15, the final day of the meeting. Included in the list of eighty-five nominations are the cream of the age division of the year. Because of the excellent crop of three-year-olds this year and their apparent equality. Interest in the Preakness is at fever pitch. The Maryland Jockey Club has added a purse of 0,000 to its capital prize. BEST HANDICAP HORSES. In the handicap division the historic Dixie takes first honors. Like the Preakness, the Dixie will be contested at one mile and three-sixteenths. Forty-one nominations in thirty-three interests have been received for the Dixie, and the list includes many of the best of the handicap division in training. Saturday, May 8, is the date set for the decision of this handicap, which will carry an added value of 0,000. Continued on twenty-sixth page. PIMLICOSGATES OPEN Continued from first nage. Twin features will grace the program on Saturday, May 1, the first Saturday of the meeting. These are the Baltimore Spring Handicap and the Pimlico Nursery. Sprinters will meet in the .Baltimore, which is a test of six furlongs, while juveniles will dash four and one-half furlongs .in the Nursery. The Baltimore has an added value of ,000, and thirty nominations have been received. The added prize in the Nursery is ,500, and fifty-one youngsters are eligible. In addition to the stakes named, overnight handicaps and condition races are liberally interspread throughout the program. Opening, as it does, on a Thursday, which is generally considered an off-day in racing, the initial program caters to mediocre horses. Topping Thursdays card is the Chincoteague Purse, a dash of six furlongs, for four-year-olds and upward. With eight races carded daily, post time for the first race has been set at 2:15 p. m.
