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Citation Heading East for Pimlico Proud Ruler Arcaro Purse Victress Coaltown Unlikely Preakness Starter StarterDerby Derby Winner Leaves Downs Today to Keep May 15 Date Escadru Will Pass Up Event EventCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 Citation Warren Wrights spec ¬ tacular winner of the seventyfourth Ken ¬ tucky Derby here last Saturday is going to Pimlico to start in the Preakness Stakes at that Maryland course on Saturday May 15 and barring unforeseen circumstances his brilliant stable companion Coaltown who finislied second in the Derby may not be a starter in the Maryland stake stakeDiscussing Discussing the stables Preakness plans Ben A Jones general managertrainer of the Calumet Farm establishment said that when Citation leaves here tomorrow for Pimlico he will be accompanied by the promising twoyearold Good Ending and no others Whether Coaltown goes to Pimlico said Jones depends entirely on developments In an emergency he could get there As of now However he is to remain here with others of Mr Wrights horsesWright horses Wright in Agreement AgreementJones Jones added that he had conferred with owner Wright yesterday and again today and that he Wright was in full agree ¬ ment with plans for the crack threeyear olds Later Jones intimated that the sta ¬ ble may make a second shipment to Mary ¬ land later in the week It is known that Jones is considering sending Fervent east for Pimlicos Dixie Handicap If he should and the stables Preakness hand is strength ¬ ened to include Coaltown the Derby run ¬ nerup could make the jump with his older stablemate But until such a change is announced Citation is the stables only Preakness entry entryJockey Jockey Eddie Arcaro who won his fourth Derby astride the handsome Citation and now ranks as the only rider ever to have ridden as many winners of the classic will be on hand to guide Citation in his quest of victory in the second of the Triple Crown series Arcaros fourth victory pulled him out of a tie with Earl Sande and Isaac Murphy MurphyNaturally Naturally if both Citation and Coaltown are starters in the Preakness N Leroy Pierson will have the leg up on the latter latterWhether Whether Ben F Whitakers My Request who finished third in the Derby reports at Pimlico for the Preakness depends on how rapidly he recovers from his Derby race A colt who does not show at his best when asked to race with insufficient time be ¬ tween engagements and one who frets a bit when traveling My Request was much upset by new surroundings while in the paddock here Saturday and this probably had some bearing on his showing How ¬ ever the Texas colt came out of the race raceContinued Continued on Page Three Citation Leaves Downs For Pimiico Oval Today TodayPreakness Preakness on May 15 Next Race Coaltown May Not Be Starter Continued from Page One in good condition and following several more days of complete rest here will be re ¬ turned to Belmont Park Later and prob ¬ ably npt before Monday owner Whitaker and trainer James Gonway will have an an ¬ nouncement covering the colts Preakness status As for Escadru the William L Brann en ry who finished last in the Derby he will not start in the Pimiico fixture Brushed against the rail during the Derby the Maryland horse was showing a small area of skin burn about the nearstifle following he race This however was not serious enough to delay a return to racing his skipping of the Preakness tracing to his poor Derby performance over a track he did not like and the desire of his trainer Edward Christmas to rest him for about two weeks before putting him back in iraining for the Belmont Stakes StakesWhen When Escadru brushed the rail his rider Arnold Kirkland suffered a bruised foot footWalmac Walmac Farms Billings who ran fourth in Saturdays race came out of his game but futile try in good condition accord ¬ ing to trainer Howard Wells This colt goes to Chicago where he will have his next stakes engagement engagementGrandpere Grandpere the only other Derby con ¬ testant is another Belmontbound along with others in the division of Mrs John Payson Adams stable which has been at the Derby scene for several weeks having come from California Grandpere is an ¬ other probable starter in the Belmont Stakes He was not named for the Preak ¬ ness Trainer E H J Shaw plans to load the string tomorrow tomorrowTrio Trio May Head for Belmont Tomorrow TomorrowIt It is possible that My Request Escadru and Charles A ONeils Galedo who did not accept for the Derby following a decisive trouncing in the Trial will start for Bel ¬ mont Park some time ednesday Galedo will be vanned from Belmont to Garden State Park where others of the ONeil horses are quartered quarteredWhile While conservative trainermanager Ben Jones said he preferred to wai and see what Citation does from here on before rating him as the best he has trained it was impossible to find a man in the big Derby crowd or on the Downs backstretcn not willing to predict a great future forj the Derby winner He may be better than Whirlaway said Jones but I prefer to wait before placing him above Whirly as the best I have handled handledComing Coming up to the Derby Jones and his son Jimmy never wavered in the opinion that Citation is a better horse than Coal town As the elder Jones put it Citation can run down any horse he can see at the head of the stretch Now in a tie with the late H J Thompson for the honor of saddling the most winners four of the 100000 Kentucky fixture Jones beat down tradition with the mighty sorf of Bull Lea and Hydroplane n As the first futurity winner to capture the Derby Citation also became the first winner of the Derby Trial to take the big objective And the more than 93000 in purse money taken down through the stables onetwo sweep of the Derby placed Calumet Farm within a few dollars of the record Xterby gleanings of starters under the silks of the late Col Ed ¬ ward Bradley and his Idle Hour Stock Farm FarmJAMAICA JAMAICA LI N Y May 3 Ben F Whitaker said vat Jamaica today that My Request would arrive at Belmont Park that he hoped vtostart him in the Preak ness a week from Saturday TJie Texan said that he would riot make a definite de ¬ cision until he saw how the colt trained after his return from Kentucky where he finished third to Calumet Farms Citation ancysoaltbfyn in therlDerbyv Whitaker said he felt that My Request had not run his race in the Derby partly because moving the field out to the center of ihe gate required My Hequest ta start in the deepest footing Whitaker also said that the moVies p the race clearly irTow My JBtequest beuigbumped at tnjerstart6y Billings w p was carried out byQrgind per and t atr the latter fcamejpui nd hit My Request again fix the backstretch We jnight not haye beaten Citation Whitaker said but we would certa4nly haye beenV T ° t Closer and if he staysail rigfit Wli tryagain1
