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MRS JOHN HERTZ Received the theprized prized Woodlawn Vase from Pimlico Pimlicopresident president Harry Parr following Count CountFleets Fleets victory in the Preakness Count Fleet Wins Preakness Belmont Meeting Opens Todcr Derby Victor Rorops Home Eight Lengths Ahead of Blue Swords SwordsHertz Hertz Homebred Runs Mile and ThreeSixteenths Route In 157 Over Good Track irt Second of Triple Crown CrownRaces Races Crowd of 30000 Witnesses Final Pimlico Program ProgramPIMLICO PIMLICO Md May 8 Some 30000 Maryland racegoers acclaimed Cotint Fleet this afternoon as Mrs John Hertz sensationally swift colt went through his routine in he fiftythird running of Pimlicos famed Preakness This 50000 classic of a mile and threesixteenths proved just a breeze for the colt who last weekend won the Derby and now is headed for the Belmont and Americas Triple Crown Setting all the pace such a swift pace he was never challenged the Count reached the finish with eight everincreasing lengths to spare over Allen Simmons Blue Swords his perennial shadow and once again the runnerup Five lengths farther back Marylands own Vincentive flew W L Branns colors into third place by twenty lengths before Harry Straus New Moon Count Fleet made a track that had been deluged last night look lightning fast as he raced over the distance under wraps in 23 47 H45 138 and 157 actually overrunning his finish by more than a quartermile His time was just twofifths of a second behind Alsabs stakes record and it appeared he might possibly have eclipsed Riverlands 156 had Longdehs hands slipped an inch inchHertz Hertz Hurricane Pays Just 230 230Incidentally Incidentally the wear and tear of chas ¬ ing Count Fleet in their barnstorming tour seems finally to have been the undoing temporarily of Blue Swords who pulled up gimping The Hertz Hurricane proved the shortestprice niutuel favorite in Preakness history returning just 230 while earning 43190 and boosting his earnings to 202260 202260This This run for the Blackeyed Susans was a procession and Count Fleet returned to the unsaddling enclosure hardly drawing a long breath Mr and Mrs Hertz were present there for the traditional cere ¬ monies the latter gracious sportswoman receiving the historic Woodlawn vase from Harry Parr m Pimlico president presidentThe The attendance for this annual Mary ¬ land turf holiday was exactly as enthusias ¬ tic as it ever was or was the Derby crowd of almost twice its size a week back The stately old clubhouse literally creaked under the weight of celebrities among them all the owners of Preakness starters arid a sizable delegation from Washington that included J Edgar Hoover John Pelley Victor Emanuel and Mr and Mrs Thomas Gridley William Woodward WoodwardContinued Continued on Page TwentyEight Count Fleet Takes Preakness in Romp RompBlue Blue Swords Second Again Eight Lengths Off Hertz Colt 30000 Witness Race RaceContinued Continued from Page One Onepresident president of The Jockey Club came over from nearby Belair farm for the gala occa ¬ sion sionOthers Others in the clubhouse throng were Admiral Young MajorGeneral M A Rekord Judge T J Walker Jerry Louch heim Wallace Lanahan Baltimore Mayor Jackson and his son Lieutenant Jackson JacksonOnly Only those cars bearing A cards were admitted to the track parking lots and these were jammed The throngs com ¬ menced arriving in midmorning over ¬ flowed into the centerfield by tho thousands thousandsTodays Todays historic event was the climax of a wonderfully successful spring meeting one that showed an overall increase of 20 per cent in business compared to the 1942 meeting meetingThere There wasnt any minus pool as many observers thought inevitable inevitableCount Count Fleet so completely dominated this Preakness it began to look like a vir ¬ tual walkover in the run first time past the stands He escaped interference at the break for the first time this spring sprinted into a fourlength lead quickly and Longden confidently took a snug hold while occasionally glancing back at the futilely pursuing field fieldBlue Blue Swords and Vincentive raced within a length or so of one another in that order over the early furlongs while New Moon dropped steadily farther back as the race progressed and eventually was beaten nearly a sixteenthmile sixteenthmileLongden Longden Has Only to Sit Still StillThe The Count whirled through the back stretch picking the safest and least moist footing and opened up half a dozen lengths with Longden setting against him Nearing the end of that lane Adams and Woolf went to a drive in vain efforts to diminish his lead leadWhen When he turned into the home lane and the shouting of the crowd became more audible the Count became more eager than ever to show off for the customers and with Longden never changing his hold he pulled out to beat Blue Swords eight lengths as the latter finally killed off Vin ¬ centive in what was the only element of competition attached to the race raceThe The Count is like nothing so much as a steam engine when he gets rolling Before he was pulled up today he had gone an additional quartermile actually running nearly a mile and a half in all allBlue Blue Swords was nodding palpably upon returning to the scales but when the weight was removed from his back and he walked off this was less noticeable noticeableBlack Black Grip ran all over a smart field of sprinters in hanging out 112 for the six furlongs of the fifth event Trent step ¬ ping him out of the gate on the lead and picking the best going all the way beating the favored Cassis by two and a half lengths Cassis was allowed to drop out of it early Woolf then found his way through on the inside making his run but could not menace the winner Some Chance was in close quarters early when unable to race clear and was three lengths off Cassis The winner paid 1380
