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SHOT PUT Whose victory in the 1940 Lincoln Handicap marked the first step in a campaign that brought him the national long distance championship of the year SEVEN HORSES NOW HOLD PILICO SPECIAL BIDS PAIR OF INVITATIONS EARNED BY WHIRLAWAY WHIRLAWAYTriumphs Triumphs in Kentucky Derby and Preakness Place Calumet Star in Top Position for Pimlico Stake StakeBALTIMORE BALTIMORE Md May 20 With the memory of Whirlaways brilliant stretch drive and victory in the Preakness Stakes still fresh in their minds racing patrons in this section are looking forward to the re ¬ turn of the Calumet Farm colt for another of Pimlicos great attractions the Pimlico Special on November 1 For Whirlaway al ¬ ready has two invitations to participate in the Pimlico Special under its new condi ¬ tions and it seems very likely that Warren Wrights son of Blenheim II may spend most of the summer going around collecting invitations to the race raceThe The Special for 1941 calls for a meeting of the winners of two dozen outstanding Ameri ¬ can stakes twelve of them for threeyear olds and twelve for handicap performers Six horses already have earned invitations to the race but Whirlaway is the only one boasting two invitations these acquired through his victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness PreaknessKing King Ranchs Dispose by winning the Fla ¬ mingo Stakes and C S Howards Porters Cap through a triumph in the Santa Anita Derby were the first to gain places on the list of Special eligibles Then Mrs Anthony Pelleteris Bay View startled California and the rest of the country by getting home in xthe Santa Anita Handicap shortly after Circle M Ranchs Big Pebble had won the Widener Cup at Hialeah both of these horses earning invitations invitationsMARKET MARKET WISE WOOD WINNER WINNERFirst First of the spring stakes to make some horse a Special candidate was the Wood Memorial and L Tufanos Market Wise cap ¬ tured this one later to run third in the Derby Then it as Whirlaway in the Derby and before he could get a second invitation by winning the Preakness Woodvale Farms Haltal joined the select group by scoring in the Dixie at PimlSco PimlScoThus Thus eight of the twentyfour stakes which will furnish the 1941 Special field have been run and there have been seven win ¬ ners Seven threeyearold fixtures remain and it hardly will surprise anyone if Whirl ¬ aways name is written into the records as the victor in two or three of these They are the Arlington Classic Belmont Dwyer American Derby Hollywood Derby Travers and the Lawrence Realization RealizationFor For the handicap division nine races re ¬ main in which the stars may earn a chance to enter Pimlicos Special The Suburban Massachusetts Narragansett Special Brook ¬ lyn Butler Washington Park Hollywood Gold Cup Whitney and the Washington at Laurel are the remaining numbers numbersRight Right now it is hard to imagine even the top members of the handicap division giving Whirlaway six pounds over the mile and threesixteenths of the Special The condi ¬ tions call for 120 pounds for threeyearolds and 126 pounds for older horses Should Whirlaway come back to the scene of his Preakness triumph for a crack at the Spe ¬ cial a victory for the Calumet colt would set no precedent for W L Branns Challe ¬ don beat C S Howards Kayak II in 1939 War Admiral was 3 when he took the first running of the Special in 1937 but the race then was limited to members of that division divisionOf Of course November 1 still is a long way off and much can happen in the interim but its pleasant for Maryland fans to dream of seeing Whirlaway reach the climax of climaxes by whipping the pick of the land in the Special
