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it i: IS S. - s Discreet Looms as Prohibitive Favorite In Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico * ie al George D. Widener Filly Has* it Five Rivals in Disappointing Line-Up for New Attraction By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 11.— The e inaugural running of the 0,000 added 3 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, which shaped up p nicely following the recent Kentucky Oaks, it has taken a decided turn for the worse in ■ the past week, with the result that tomorrows mile and three-sixteenths fixture has s attracted a disappointing field of six three -year-old _ fillies, none of whom has distinguished _ herself in stakes competition. Likely to come up a prohibitive choice B in the lassie stake is George D. Wideners s Discreet, a daughter of Eight Thirty. Like e those opposing her, she will carry 121 1 pounds, which is to include George Hettinger. Others in the line-up are: C. B. i Carters Break of Day, Mrs. R. H. Heighes s Strike, Watson Elliotts Nina Rose, Mrs. ; Margaret P. Wirths Florida Fay and R. H. Abercrombies Sliparound. Among the prominent eligibles passing r up the race for one reason or another are 1 How, Aunt Jinny, Carolina Queen, Nothird- it e 3 p it ■ s _ _ B s e 1 i s ; r 1 chance, Ruddy, Sweet Talk, Kiss Me Kate, Merry Xmas, Signal and Vulcania. Discreet qualified handsomely for the Black-Eyed Susan as recently as last Saturday, when she turned in a corking effort to be third behind the colts Combat Boots and Hull Down at a mile and a sixteenth. She won a single race in three starts as a juvenile and her lone success this season came at Hialeah Park. Off that victory, she was started in the Jasmine Stakes and was beaten less than two lengths. Break of Day recently returned from Kentucky, where she was tenth in the 14-horse field which furnished the action in the Oaks. Even in defeat the Piping Rock filly beat such capable runners as Aunt Jinny, Roman Miss and Juliets Nurse. She is without a rider overnight, but Willie Downs has been her regular pilot and is likely to return to the saddle. Strike, a Maryland-bred daughter of Zayin, has won iwo races this season, each of them against ,000 claimers, and must be accorded a chance. In her last she was second to as fleet a sprinter as Nerve at six furlongs, beaten but a length. Nina Rose, another homebred, being by Alaking, has shown nothing to suggest that Continued on Page Forty Discreet Prohibitive Choice In Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Continued from Page One she is of stakes caliber, but the same can be said of more than one-half of tomorrows starters. In her most recent appearance she was beaten off by Orb. Sliparound and Florida Fay arrived here from Lincoln Downs with this event in view. Sliparound has won two cheap races this year, beating Florida Fay on one occasion. Florida Fay, a daughter of Vincen-tive, also has been a double winner this year in cheap company. The Black-Eyed Susan replaced the Pimlico Oaks, and the field is certainly a far cry from the earlier event. During the history of the Oaks, such outstanding members of the division as Vagrancy, Twilight Tear, Gallorette, But Why Not and Wistful were winners in their respective seasons.
