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Count Fleet Breezes ThreeQuarters Is Timed in 11 7 1 i Preakness Prep PrepBlue Blue Swords and Vincentive Only Definite Opponents for Hertz Colt in Pimlico Stake StakePIMLICO PIMLICO Md May 5 The en ¬ chanting pageantry of Pimlicos famed Preakness assumed the formof a breeze for the prohibitive favorite Count Fleet this morning While scores of horsemen towns folk and photographers looked on avidly Mrs John Hertz sensational runner breezed six furlongs in the unsensational time of 117 in a move that was precisely What Don Cameron prescribed This inter esting bit of mild calisthenics occurred about 9 am It was really no more than an open gal lop for the Derby hero who was equipped with blinkers but worked unaccompanied with jockey John Longdens feet thrust straight out before him moving majestic ally along in 12 24 50 and 103 The going was described as fast although it will be vastly more speedconducive by the time the bugle blows for Saturdays fiftythird running of this 50000 turf classic barring the intervention of the elements elementsThe The Count cooled out without incident and went ravenously at his hay immedi ately after Charley Hewitt did him up and turned him loose in his box in barn P Count Fleets behavior is as saucy as ever which is quite as infallible an indication of fitness in a thoroughbred as an irascible demeanor in a pugilist Mr and Mrs John Hertz were here later In the day to inspect their colt whose rec ¬ ord shattering performances have made him the talk of the turf and the outstand ¬ ing box office attraction of the present day American racing scene sceneFourth Fourth Money of 2000 Meanwhile it seemed pretty obvious that no more than three rather brash colts would parade postward with Count Fleet for the weekends historic mile and three sixteenths Indeed only two reasonably certain starters could be named aside from the Stoner Creek representative These are Allen Simmons persistent Blue Swords and W L Branns clever Mary ¬ landbred Vincentive However 2000 fourth money is provided in the division of the Preakness monetary spoils It is not improbable this will lure a fourth starter from some obscure quarter quarterBlue Blue Swords who is making something of a career of finishing second to Count Fleet was only galloped around the Belve ¬ dere Avenue course at a limberingup pace this morning Trainer Walter Kelly pro ¬ poses to give Blue Larkspurs rangy son his final prep for the run for the Black Eyed Susans Thursday morning As in the unbettable favorites case no heroics will be attempted or necessary necessaryOf Of course the prospect of witnessing Count Fleet in action rather more than any promise of heated competition will be the magnet that attracts Rather heedlessly perhaps the Baltimore public regards The Count in a futureimperative instead of a more cautious presentindicative sense At AtMhe Mhe redhot moment it is not expected he will be more than 1 to 5 in Mort Mahonys tote apparatus apparatusTrack Track Record in Danger DangerIncidentally Incidentally this Preakness field has a new time target at which to aim what with the emancipated plater Riverland having been forced by Attention to race a mile and three sixteenths in 156 to capture last weekends Dixie Handicap HandicapTwo Two prospective Preakness entrants were almost certainly eliminated yesterday in ¬ cidentally when H L Straus highly re ¬ garded New Moon failed in the local Sur ¬ vivor Stakes and Beau of Mine came out of a successful public final at Jamaica lame lameIn In addition hopes that Belairs Bossuet would try The Count once more went glim mering yesterday when Mr Fitz an ¬ nounced this New Yorker will remain care ¬ fully away from the Stoner Creek champion for the time being at least leastSlide Slide Rule shipped to New York instead of to Pimlico as trainer Cecil Wilhelm had indicated last Sunday It is asking quite a lot of a horse to ship to Long Lsland then van back to Baltimore he said and I believe Slide Rule would be a formidable candidate for the Withers mile were he sharpened for that affair and passed up the Preakness However Mr Boeing has the final say in the matter of course courseLongden Longden will boot Count Fleet in the Preakness of course and Woolf has the mount on W L Branns locally popular Vincentive Latest word had Johnny Adams engaged to handle Blue Swords
