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HARRY PARR Pimlicos prexy is pre ¬ paring to entertain a crowd of 30000 for todays StreetCar renewal of the famed Preakness Stakes Field for Catch Count Fleet Preakness PIMLICO Md May 7 Marylands outstanding horse race the Preak ¬ ness to be staged for the fiftythird time at Pimlico tomorrow appears easy pickings for Count Fleet in his quest of the second part of Americas Triple Crown He is slated to meet his shadow Blue Swords and three other rivals in the 50000 fixture The field for the mile and threesixteenths event in post position order together with riders owners trainers and weights to be carried is as follows followsPP PP Horse Jockey Owner Trainer Wt 1 Vincentive G Woolf W L Brann E A Christmas 126 2 Count Fleet J Longden Mrs J D Hertz G D Cameron 126 3 New Moon R Sisto H L Straus F A Bonsai 126 4 Radio Merale I Garza King Ranch Max Hirsch 126 5 Blue Swords J Adams A T Simmons W A Kelley 126 Count Fleet Heads FiveHorse Field in Renewal of Preakness Hertz Colt May Rule Shorter Favorite Than in Derby Score Blue Swords and Vincentive May Give Most Contention In 50000 Pimlico Stake StakePIMLICO PIMLICO Md May 7 And now the Preakness Count Fleets fame is such that this 53rd edition of Marylands 50000 added spring classic looms a virtual per ¬ sonal appearance in the barnstorming tour of a peerless runner A comparative few imaginative souls will back one or another of the unabashed quartet named to oppose Mrs John Hertz spectacular colt but most of the crowd of some 30000 expected to witness the historic mile and threesix ¬ teenths are singleminded about it and will attend simply to see him perform performIf If you infer that a reversal for The Count in this secorid phase of his quest of Americas Triple Crown would come as one of the most shocking upsets in the long annals of the Run for the Black eyed Susans then you are altogether cor ¬ rect For he undoubtediywill be the short ¬ est priced mutuels favorite the Preakness has produced perhaps at no more than 1 to 5 5Two Two MarylandBreds in Fixture FixtureIt It is pretty generally agreed too that Allen Simmons sturdy Blue Swords the favorites perennial shadow will once again inject the major share of resistance into the proceedings Loyal Marylanders will have a few more or less sentimental bobs on William L Branns Vincentive a product of the Old Line States thorough ¬ bred breeding industry Still another less formidable entrant who was bred near the Hilltop is Harry Straus New Moon The Isadore Biebers widely unknown Radio Morale darkest of the stakes dark horses completes the promised field but is an improbable starter starterHarry Harry Parr m the democratic young Maryland aristocrat who is president of the 200yearold Maryland Jockey Club is completing preparations for the staging of this Catch Count Fleet Preakness Such bits of color as the presentation of the ancient and gaudy Woqdlawn vase the Garland of blackeyed susans that is tradi ¬ tionally draped about the winners withers the champagne for his attendants at the barn the white Preakness roses worn by the stewards and all the other folderols and amenities of the gala occasion will be observed The vast majority of this wartime Preakness crowd will reach the historic course on street cars and the regulations regulationsContinued Continued on Page Three Count Fleet Heads Five in Preakness PreaknessHertz Hertz Colt Expected to Rule Shorter Favorite Than in Derby Triumph TriumphContinued Continued from Page One Oneas as to transportation will be patriotically enforced enforcedPreakness Preakness day concludes an extraordi ¬ narily successful spring season here at the atmospheric Belvedere Avenue course with business running approximately 15 per cent ahead of that for the similar period in 42 This despite the 12 noon firstpost tune and then wartime communication rules Alsab last seasons winner set the pres ¬ ent Preakness time mark of 157 while the track record for the mile and threesix ¬ teenths here is Rlverlands 156 estab ¬ lished in last weekends Dixie These time standards assume unusual interest when Count Fleet appears because of his im ¬ pressive habit of erasing them themWith With five starters the stake will net the winner 45055 unless he is dount Fleet who became eligible by grace of the sup ¬ plementary clause and so would receive a net of 43690 43690The The form of all but New Moon and Radio Morale is almost top well known to race ¬ goers to warrant consuming space recount ¬ ing their achievements New Moon a son of Discovery had his Preakness final in last Tuesdays mile and onesixteenth Sur ¬ vivor in which he fashioned a busy pace for about seven furlongs and then gave way Radio Morale did not race at all at two and only today was claimed out of the last race at Jamaica for 1200 1200It It may be pertinent to note in connec ¬ tion with the entry of this rather anony ¬ mous pair that the division of the Preak ¬ ness spoils provides 10000 to second 5000 to third and 2000 for fourth In addition the nominator of the winner re ¬ ceives 1500 the second to finish 750 and the third 250 There is a prospect of a minus pool in the Preakness wagering incidentally As this is written no announcement had been made regarding the betting but mutuels manager Mahony noted that it is entirely within the rules to have win betting only even with five starters startersPerhaps Perhaps the betting will be win and place if the quintet named all face starter Jim Milton MiltonThe The Preakness torrid favorite was blown out this morning before a large admiring gathering and he demonstrated beyond a doubt that he brought his vaunted speed with him from Louisville LouisvilleWith With his blinkers adjusted jockey Long den in the stirrups and accompanied three furlongs by Bottom Rail Count Fleet went over this distance around the turn in 35M with all brakes set and eased up a half mile in a flat 48 He cooled out well and devoured about a bale of hay John Hertz was present with trainer Cameron to see this impressive pipeopener and it was that sportsman who drew The Counts position number 2 2The The favorites admirers only hope is that he escapes the cutting toes on the plates of his rivals to the first 70 yards for in each of his 1943 appearances other runners have broken into him and scalped his legs about the tendons mangling a coronet in the Wood Memorial MemorialVincentive Vincentive who drew the rail also opened up on the fast strip this morning going a half in 51 in breezing fashion Trainer Ed Christmas declares his charge never was better Jockey George Woolf will have the mount mountBlue Blue Swords whose condition speaks for his sturdiness in that he has shown less ill effects of chasing The Count than has any other of the latter colts spring rivals only galloped around today He will open up a few furlongs tomorrow morning Jockey Johnny Adams is to pilot the Ohioan who breaks from the outside outsideNew New Moon drew number 3 and will be ridden by R Sisto it is indicated while Willie Mehrtens is to handle Radio Morale who breaks from number 4
