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j PREAKNESS FACTS Place— Pimlico, Baltimore, Md. Running of race— Forty-ninth. [ Probable attendance — 40,000. ! Added money— 0,000. Gross value— 1,370. Largest number of starters— 18 in 1928. Smallest number of starters — Two in | 1883, 1884 and 1889. t Shortest priced winner — War Ad- miral, 35 to 100. Longest priced winner — Coventry. 1.80 to . Leading owner — P. Lorillard, five winners. Leading trainer— R. W. Walden, seven winners. Leading jockeys— Barbee and Hughes, three each. Record Preakness wagering — 1920, 58,000. Record Preakness Day wagerine 1929, ,341,229. — ■■■