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Preakness Hopes in Serious Training Correspondent Has! Good Six Furlongs Blue Grass Winner Clocked In 1 :143/5 in Mud; Dark Star Due at Pimlico on Sunday By CHARLES HATTON PIMLICO. Baltimore, Md., May 14.— The Preakness prospects, most of whom were granted a brief respite following the Kentucky Derby, now are resuming serious training for the 00,000 May 23 classic. Enlivening things for workwatchers at Pimlico this morning was Mrs. Gordon Guibersons California-bred Correspondent. Trainer Wally Dunn sent the Blue Grass Stakes winner through six furlongs of mud and water in 1:14%, and was gratified by the very consummate way in which the son of Khaled went through thjs prep. His fractions were :23% and :48%. Indications are that Correspondent will be among those present when the bugle blows Monday for the ,500 Preakness Prep of a mile and a sixteenth. He is to be ridden in this engagement and the Preakness as well by the familiar Bobby Summers. Arrangements have been made to receive Harry Guggenheims Kentucky Derby winner Dark Star, who is expected Sunday from Belmont Park, where he trained smartly for the Preakness Prep. And inter- est here in Baltimore is running high in Mondays feature. Trainer Eddie Hayward, of the Guggenheim horses is pursuing pretty much the same training routine to have the Royal Gem n. colt ready for "the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans" as he did to prepare him for the Kentucky Derby. It will be recalled that Dark Star won the Derby Trial on Tuesday of Derby week at the Downs. Marylanders are eager also for a glimpse of Native Dancer, whom Bill Winfrey will bring here from New York early next week. Winfrey wishes to breeze "The Dancer" once over the Pimlico surface before saddling him for the Preakness and it is indicated that he may be paddocked and galloped between races one day during "Preakness week." He was a good show training between races at Louisville, and attracted scores to the Downs largely to see the noted gray. Though Native Dancer was educated at Sagamore here, and is to serve in stud in this state, Marylanders have never seen him under colors. Correspondent, Royal Bay Gem and Ram o War are the only very strong "probables" for the Preakness now munching their oats on the Maryland Jockey Club grounds. But such as Invigorator, Tahitian King, Isa-smoothie, Real Brother, Jamie K., and, of course, Dark Star and Native Dancer are within easy range. A more comprehensive idea of who will actually start in the Preakness is expected to be gained from the results of the Withers Mile and the Preakness Prep. Attendances here are "up" 10 per cent over crowds for corresponding days last spring and the Maryland Jockey Club is encouraged, by the flood of requests for Preakness Day accommodations, to believe that the classic will be witnessed by one of the largest gatherings in the history of the course. The Pimlico record now is 42,370, established in 1946. The facilities of the park have been enlarged for this Preakness, particularly in the old clubhouse enclosure.
