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Pimlico Begins Short Meet Tomorrow; Highlights Are Preakness, Dixie, Oaks . I • ■ . : : ; • , . . Stake Offering Scheduled *" ► Each Afternoon at Popular Baltimore, Maryland Track ! PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 4.— : Marylands shortest race meeting in recent 1 years will get under way Friday when the 1 Maryland Jockey Club launches its eight- 1 day spring session at historic Pimlico. Con- tinuing its procedure of offering a stake- i a-day, the host organization will present i renewals of its most coveted events, headed I by the Dixie Handicap. Pimlico Oaks and i the Preakness. Post time daily will be 2:15 i p. m.. with the exception of Preakness Day, ] when first post will be advanced 15 minutes. Aside from the aforementioned fixtures, the following races will feature programs during the abbreviated period: Jervis Spencer Steeplechase Handicap, Survivor Stakes, Baltimore Spring Handicap, Pimlico Spring Maiden Steeplechase and Pimlico Breeders Stakes. Highlight of the meeting, is, quite naturally, the Preakness, in which many of the Derby starters are scheduled for a rematch at the mile and three-sixteenths distance. The Preakness also may attract any of the following three-year-olds, Parliament, Sun Bahram, Swap Out, Curandero or Taran. The meeting will get a jumping start, so to speak, with the running of the 0,000 added Jervis Spencer, a two -mile infield event which honors the memory of Marylands long-time chairman of the racing commission. This early in the season, it is next to impossible to name a probable field for this infield event. The same can be said regarding the Pimlico Spring Maiden, ,000 event which will be run Wednesday, May 11. The initial Saturday of the meeting will be "Derby Day" throughout the country, but to dyed-in-the-wool Marylanders it will mark another "Dixie Day," for that is the afternoon on which the Maryland Jockey Club will offer the 26th running of that famous event, which is at the mile and three -sixteenths distance for 5,000 in added money. With Coaltown remaining in New York following his galloping score in Jamaicas Gallant Fox Handicap, it seems probable that trainer Jimmy Jones will elect to pass up the Pimlico event, which should "make" that race. With the Calumet comet among the absentees, the race should be a keenly contested one. Probable starters at this time include King Ranchs Contest, Mrs. *" ► ! : 1 1 1 i i I i i ] E. H. Augustus" Seven League, Brookmeade Stables Chains, Calumets Faultless, Harry Straus Pilaster, Claude C. Tanners Near-way and Hal Price Headleys Pellicle. Monday will commence Preakness week, , a six-day span which will be climaxed by • the fifty-ninth running of the historic : three-year-old classic. It is only natural [ that the week should commence with sophomores . in the limelight, the ,500 Survivor • offering them their opportunity. The race : usually produces one or more starters in t the richer Preakness. Endeavoring to earn l a starting position in that fixture this season will be Christiana Stables Parliament, King Ranchs Swap Out, Sylvester W. La-brot, Jr.s, Taran and C. E. Tuttles Double Brandy. Sprinters are offered their lone important opportunity of the meeting on Tuesday in the ,500 added Baltimore Spring Handicap, a dash of six furlongs. Probables for the race include Mrs. Augustus Big Story, Brookfield Farms Isa, Calumets Pep Well, Henry Hechts The Pincher, William Helis Mr. Ace, E. A. Nicodemus Laran and Mrs. E. duPont Weirs Royal Governor. Thursdays offering features Maryland-bred juvenile fillies in the four and a half furlongs Pimlico Breeders Stakes. Fillies who have shown promise while pointing for the race are Ella K. Brysons It Girl, Mrs. Emma Downs Likarock, H. S. Horkheim-ers Jeep Quest, S. W. Labrot, Jr.s, Strada, Mrs. Danny Sheas Busy Morning, winner of the Havre de Grace Breeders; Larry MacPhails Marian Ann and Grant Thorns World Empress. The Oaks is one of the better filly races of the year and this seasons renewal should be no exception. Such clever lassies as Gaffery, Raise You, Alluring, Imacomin, Boomdeay, Delta Queen, Bat Girl, Miss Down, Why the Rush and Ochita are pointing for the race.
