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Maryland All Set for Preakness Week Renewal of Dixie To Attract Stars Colchis and Bleu dOr to Meet Many of Derby Field In Saturdays Big Special BALTIMORE. Md.. May 2.— The stake-a-day schedule at the rustic Baltimore grounds proceeds during the final climatic week ahead, with every prospect that attendance marks will be shattered on Dixie and Preakness days. The succession of stakes features begins Monday with the Jennings Handicap, of ,000 in endowment and at six furlongs, and moves on excitingly through the ,500 added Survivor to Wednesdays historic 0,000 Dixie Handicap. Thursdays bill of turf fare will be topped off with the Carroll Handicap, which has ,500 added and will test some of the swiftest fillies and mares at the six-furlong distance. On Fridays Preakness Eve program theres the ,000 added Pimlico Nursery, an important Maryland spring special for two-year-olds. Then, of course, the grand finale — the 0,000 added Preakness itself — on Saturday. Regardless of the outcome of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness is furnishing unusual interest, because of the absence of a standout in the three-year-old division and the presence among its candidates of Colchis and Bleu DOr, who did not contest the Churchill Downs classic. Colchis, winner of the Chesapeake Stakes, wasnt eligible, and Bleu DOr came out of the Wood Memorial running in a condition necessitating a weeks rest. He was beaten only inches by Requested after coming from far back in the stretch. Whirlaway Bound for East Warren Wrights renowned Whirlaway, hero of the 1941 "Triple Crown and the years leading money winning performer, is to inaugurate his eastern campaign in the mile and three-sixteenths of the midweek Dixie renewal. Plain Benjamin Jones long-tailed charge will accompany Sun Again, the strings Preakness hopeful, over to Baltimore from Louisville. Whirlaway comes to the Hilltop fresh from a notable conquest in the ancient Clark Handicap a week ago ast Saturday at Churchill Downs. There he was forced to draw upon his sensational stretch-running prowess to the utmost to run down young freckled Miss Helen Hickmans sturdy Aonbarr, the ablest miler on the western turf scene. Trainer Jones reports that Whirlaway came out of his Clark engagement nothing the worse for wear, and Saturday morning at Louisville he was clocked six furlongs in l:144/5, with Pinky Brown all but throwing him down. Theres no more magnetic box-office attraction in contemporary American racing than is the distinguished dark chestnut son of Blenheim II. — Dustwhirl. His presence in the Dixie field seems to assure the tax-ridden Maryland Jockey Club course one of the largest crowds ever to witness this special for handicap performers, weather permitting. Challedon to Renew Feud Handicapper Charles J. McLennan, naturally enough, assesses the Chicagoan most highly of the Dixie eligibles, according to him the unsolicited honor of top weight under 128 pounds. Marylands pride, W. L. Branns Challedon, and the invader from blacked-out California, Mioland, probably will renew their Philadelphia Handicap hostilities in the Dixie. When he dusted off Mioland, coming from behind the latter spectacularly, in the Havre stake, Challedon was shouldering 122 and was in receipt of two pounds from the "international incident horse." With just Whhlaway, Mioland and Challedon parading for this Dixie, it will be one of the classiest fields, assuring one of the most interesting and historically significant runnings in the stakes long history. Another prospective, starter is Louis Tu-fanos Market Wise, who beat "Whirly" a memorable nose i American record time for the two-mile Jockey Club Cup last autumn. McLennan requests Whirlaway to give Mioland two pounds, the latter carrying 126, while Mioland must concede Challedon two. Mrs. Parker Comings Attention is a possibility under 124. But Fenelon, whos similarly weighted, will not return to competition until the Aqueduct meeting, according to "Mr. Fitz."
