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NINE NAMED OVERNIGHT FOR PIMLICO FUTURITY 6,350 GROSS VALUE Winners Share of Maryland Juvenile Race May Be 9,270. Challedon Slight Pre-Race Favorite Bradley Relying on Filly Big Hurry to Triumph. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 11. Seven colt3 and two fillies will compete here tomorrow in the fifteenth renewal of the Pimlico Futurity and the successful one bidding for the Maryland Jockey Clubs important autumn fixture for two-year-olds will receive 9,270 of the 6,350 gross value of the mile and one-sixteenth event. Clear weather and a fast track are expected and with them a crowd exceeded only by that which viewed the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match on opening day. To all but Mrs. Payne Whitney and Col. E. R. Bradley, the thrill of possessing a Pimlico Futurity winner will prove new to the nine owners having representatives in tomorrows running, but it appears an open . event, with Challedon likely to prove a slight i favorite. William L. Branns colt has made j a profound impression on racing enthusiasts of late with his successive triumphs in the Maryland and New England Futurities, and he comes up to his latest engagement in perfect fettle. AFTER THIRD SUCCESS. Bradley, who won the Futurity in 1922, when it was divided into two divisions, with Blossom Time, and again the following year with Beau Butler, is bidding for his third triumph with Big Hurry, which in her last outing won the Selima Stakes at one mile j with an impressive performance. Mrs. Whit-tneys Greentree silks, which will be borne j by Third Degree tomorrow, were carried successfully by Glade in 1927. Both Big Hurry and Third Degree are accounted among the outstanding candidates for the Futurity, the latter despite the fact he has a bad foot, which kept him from i starting in the Breeders Futurity at Keene-land. The best effort of the Questionnaire : colt was in the Belmont Futurity, in which : he was a hard driving third, behind Porters Mite and Eight Thirty. Another of his good races was in the National Stallion Stakes, in which he placed to Donita M. Gilded Knight, from the Wheatley Stable, is another candidate certain of extended support, this son of Sir Gallahad III. being fresh from a galloping victory in the Wan-namoisett Handicap at Narragansett Park over the same distance as the Futurity. MARYLAND HOPES. Maryland hopes will center on Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Impound, which was second to Johnstown in the Richard Johnson Stakes at Laurel, and gave Challedon stern opposition in the New England Futurity after a slow getaway. In the Walden : here, Impound was fourth to Inscoelda, Voli- tant and Cicncia, any one of which would j compare favorably with the outstanding members of tomorrows field. The group of outsiders includes the Star- mount Stables Predestined, the lone maiden j j in the field. Possessing the best record of this quartet is George D. Wideners Exploded, 1 which won a good middle-distance j race at Laurel. The others are Harry F. Guggenheims Falaise Stable colorbearer, Continued on twenty-fifth page. NINE NAMED OVERNIGHT FOR P1MIC0 FUTURITY Continued from first page. Nitro, and Felsun, from William du Ponts Foxcatcher Farms. Third Degree and Felsun were the only hopefuls asked for speed this morning, both going four furlongs, the former in :50 handily and the latter in :51 handily. In final important trials at one mile for the race, Gilded Knight was timed in 1:44, Exploded 1:44, Felsun 1:46, Third Degree 1:44, Chal-ledon 1:45 and Big Hurry 1:45, while Nitro, after his recent race, in which he was third, stepped six furlongs in 1:17. The Futurity, from its inception in 1921 through 1932, was one of Americas richest two-year-old races and regains something of its past glory In this respect tomorrow. Interest In the race is the greatest in years and a crowd in excess of 25,000 persons is expected.
