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r. t Here and There on the Turf Preakness Closes Again Stars Due to Be Named ! Supplementary Entries Arlington Classic Due Bradley Taking No Chances li Supplementary nominations to the Preakness Stakes, a race now in the nature of a future event, are due tomorrow. At least a half dozen should be nominated for the Maryland Jockey Clubs three-year-old classic, as the present list of eligibles fails to include that many or more of the most promising members of the division. The cost of making a supplementary entry is ,500, and this ordinarily may be considered a stiff fee, but it should be. Owners who made subscriptions at the first closing, when their candidates were unknown in quality, are entitled to whatever protection a high payment at the supplementary closing can give them. Last season Cant Wait and Sun Egret were late nominees and went postward, but they went unplaced, as Dauber, Cravat and Me-now, which had been entered at the regular time, were the first three to the wire, in that order. The favorites in this years renewal of the Preakness very possibly could come from among the group to be made eligible tomorrow, because the outstanding three-year-old possibilities not already entered in the Pim-lico classic are El Chico, Eight Thirty, Technician, Ciencia and Xalapa Clown. Others which may be under consideration by their connections for nomination to the Preakness at ,500 each are Ariel Toy, Day Off, Impound, Hysterical, Pontius, Our Mat and No Competition. Nominations of El Chico and Eight Thirty are almost assured. William Ziegler, Jr., thinks his colt is a champion, Continued on nineteenth page. 1 HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page and he will wish to give him every chance to prove it, and Andrew Joyner, generalissimo of the George D. Widener racing forces, indicated last fall that Eight Thirty would be held out of the Derby and pointed for the Preakness and, as he is reported training well, his entry may be expected. Last spring, Herbert M. Woolf, for some reason or another, failed to make Lawrin a supplementary nominee for the Preakness, which undoubtedly was a source of regret to him after the colt had won the Kentucky Derby. He and his trainer, Benjamin A. Jones, probably have been advised of the Preakness supplementary closing tomorrow for this years running, and if they fail to name Technician it will be done knowingly. It has been said that Ciencia will be entered, but it will not be surprising to the writer if she isnt. However, the Santa Anita Derby winner has been nominated for the Chesapeake Stakes, and a neat program for the good daughter of Cohort and Science would be to start in the Havre de Grace stake, then the Pimlico Oaks and lead up to the Preakness. The Oaks is scheduled for the same day as the Derby, in which she is not entered. ? In addition to the supplementary closing, the third payment for those nominated as yearlings is due and of the 114 now eligible, hardly seventy-five will remain at 00 each and the number may be smaller. But with j seventy-five being kept eligible and ten made 1 supplementary candidates, the Preakness will need only ten starters at 00 each to gross 3,570, making it the countrys richest three-year-old event. The Maryland Jockey Club adds 0,000. Even with a fewer num-, ber of the present eligibles paying up and less than ten paying ,500 each to enter, the Preakness may possess a gross value ; above that of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont ! Stakes and Arlington Classic. The Derby has i only one closing, but the Belmont long has ! been a future event, but with no supple-jmentary entries. This year the Classic will I have conditions similar to the Preakness for I the first time and" it, too, is asking for sup-j plementary nominations tomorrow. j Supplementary entries for the Classic Stakes, which is expected to gross 0,000 I and net the winner 8,000, will close at I midnight, April 15, Arlington Park officials 1 notified owners here today. Carrying added money of 0,000 and under new "futurity" conditions, the 1939 renewal of the midsummers most important race for three-year-olds is annually the highlight of the swanky Arlington Park meeting here. This year the Arlington meeting will run from June 26 to July 29, inclusive. Besides the purse money, the winning owner will receive, for permanent possession, one of the most I valuable racing trophies in America a four-teen-carat solid gold replica of the Coronation Cup won in England in 1929 by Mrs. John Hertz Reigh Count. This annual l award was inaugurated last year and the j first Coronation replica was won by Nedayr I for Willis Sharpe Kilmer, noted eastern breeder. Col. Edward R. Bradley probably would get just as much thrill out of winning his fifth Kentucky Derby as he did when Behave Yourself scored the first triumph in his white and green silks, but he quickly brushed aside his hope when making his first inspection of Benefactor at Idle Hour Farm since returning from Florida. Colonel Bradley found Benefactor appearing in excellent condition in every way except the enlargement of the flexor tendon, a swelling that would have gone unnoticed to all except persons who know those things. The big bay colt, considered one of the best of the many good three-year-old prospects Colonel Bradley has had in his long participation in the sport, has not been sore at any time since his injury occurred, but he knows the chances as well as his trainer and any veterinarian of the colt standing up under hard training. Now he may transfer his hopes to winning the Belmont or Classic or J Travers, or some of the other later fixtures.
