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TO RACE AT PUBLICO AGAIN Eight Stake Winners of 1937 Have Engagements at Spring Meeting. Calumet Dick to Try for Second Score in Dixie Handicap Nedayr Strong Candidate for Preakness. BALTIMORE, Md., April 5. Eight of last years Pimlico stakes winners have signed up for return engagements this year in the Maryland Jockey Clubs ambitious "stake-a-day" program. These eight thoroughbreds, headed by the mighty War Admiral, won over 17,000 at Pimlico in 1937. War Admiral, winner of the Preakness and the Pimlico Special, is a candidate for the Dixie Handicap. Another double winner, Nedayr, victor in the Walden and the Futurity, is a strong candidate for the Preakness, which alone is expected to gross in the neighborhood of 0,000. WATCH PERFORMANCES. The performance of these horses at Pimlico this spring will be watched carefully by the fans, as one or more of them appears in every one of the thirteen stakes, except the Pimlico Oaks and the two juvenile events. The roster of last years winners, with the exception of War Admiral and Nedayr, and their forthcoming engagements at Pimlico, are: Seabiscuit, winner of the Riggs Handicap, is a candidate for the Dixie Handicap; Calumet Dick, winner of the Dixie Handicap, and Aneroid, winner of the Spring Handicap, are candidates for the Gittings Handicap and Dixie Handicap; Challephen, winner of the Heiser Handicap, is a candidate for the Gittings Handicap and the Presgrave Handicap; Legal Light, which dead heated Pit Bull for honors in the Sagamore Handicap, is a candidate for the Survivor Stakes, while the . latter is eligible to the Spring, Rennert, Carroll, Swift and Jennings handicaps, ESPOSA ON GROUNDS. Esposa, winner of both the Lady. Baltimore Handicap and the Bowie Handicap last autumn, is on the grounds at Pimlico and may possibly be seen in action in one of the featured overnight events. Two well liked "seconds" in Pimlicos two biggest races of 1937 may also be seen again. Pompoon, second to War Admiral in the Preakness, is a candidate for the Dixie; and Jacola, second to Nedayr in the Futurity, is a formidable candidate for the Pimlico Oaks.
