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WOMEN OWNERS ON THE TURF Formidable Band of Feminine Enthusiasts Centered in East. Many Outstanding Candidates for Rich Pimlico Stake Features Owned by Weaker Sex. BALTIMORE, Md., April 9. Gay colors are always associated with women, and it may be that the vivid and shining silks of racing are the real magnets that attract so many women to the sport as spectators by the thousands and as owners more often than one would suspect. The Preakness, with ten eligibles owned by women, is an excellent example of womans participation in the sport of thoroughbred horse racing. Mrs. W. Plunket Stewart, whose orange and blue silks are so well known, will have a formidable pair in Pasteurized and Milk Punch, two well named sons of her own stallion, Milkman. Pasteurizeds two-year-old career stamps him as an important contender, having won four races, including the East View Stakes, in which he defeated Family Friend, Miyako and others. Milk Punch also managed to race impressively as a youngster, winning two races. MRS. PAYNE WHITNEY. Mrs. Payne Whitney, whose Greentree Stable sports the pink and black, has Redbreast and Wood Song, the former a powerful contender as a two-year-old and destined to be a factor in this years three-year-old stakes. The latter is a full brother to Singing Wood, winner of the Belmont Futurity in 1933 and the Withers Stakes at Belmont in 1934. Redbreast and Wood Song each won last year and were in the money on other occasions. Mrs. Ogden Phipps, whose Wheatley Stable sports yellow and purple, has two capable candidates in Stormscud and Quick Devil. The former won one race and was second in four starts last year, after which he was retired in order that he might gain his full growth. Mrs. Willis Sharpe Kilmer, wife of the well known breeder and owner of Nedayr, last years two-year-old star, is the owner of Fair Fields Stable, which sports canary and white. This stable is represented in the Preakness by Lucky Omen, which out of six starts in 1937 was second twice and third once. Yellow and green are the colors carried by Mrs. Parker Comings thoroughbreds and she is represented in the Preakness by Thanksgiving, a son of Bud Lerner Inch-cape Girl, which has shown much promise, winning two races in five starts as a two-year-old. MRS. BROMLEYS BEST HORSE. Mrs. Charles S. Bromleys Grandever will sport the more severe shades of black and red. This colt was a non-starter in 1937 and therefore shapes up as an unknown; sometimes called a "dark horse." Mrs Robert H. Heighe hopes to have her green and white silks carried to victory by another unknown, Edwin Booth, a non-starter in 1937. And to prove that a woman winning the Preakness is not a rarity, you need only to recall Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes High Quest in 1934, with her Cavalcade running second in the same race. Mrs. Silas B. Masons orange and black silks were first in 1933 with Head Play and away back in 1914 Mrs. Archibald Barklie was the first woman to win the great race, doing so with Holiday. After all, perhaps the thrill of winning a great race like the Preakness is as much of an attraction to the ladies as to the men, but certainly the color of the sport compensates the ladies when their thoroughbreds dont happen to be the first under the wire.
