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Pimlico Ushers In Preakness Meeting MeetingHomeland Homeland Purse Brings Out ElevenAllowance Performers Correlation Arrives at Track TrackBy By PALMER HEAGERTY HEAGERTYStaff Staff Correspondent PIMLICO Baltimore Md May 6 Pim licos 18day meeting final span of the spring season in Maryland opens tomor ¬ row with the Homeland Purse a 4000 event heading the initial program programEleven Eleven better grade allowance perform ¬ ers have been named overnight for the mile and a sixteenth feature and the race promises to be a keen contest for the open ¬ ing day throng expected to number in the neighborhood of 12000 12000Pimlicos Pimlicos stakes program will get under way on Saturday when the first of three important fixtures will be renewed This is the Dixie Handicap oldest of the Mary ¬ land Jockey Clubs many features and it will be decided over the mile and a fur ¬ long route with 25000 in added money as the prize prizeMrs Mrs E K Weil Sends Out Pair PairFor For tomorrows Homeland Purse the field includes Mrs E Kendall Weils entry of Centenaire and Gloriette G A Sacks Rare Knave M T Gilpins Arson W W Waters Bea Marony H W Shaffers Ef ¬ fortless Tinkham Veale ns Prince Hen ¬ ry Brookmeade Stables Roaring Bull W J Appels Tip H Mrs F J Vollmers My Nell and H B Cohens Mully S SSince Since Nick Shuk and Eldon Nelson have been engaging in such a tight duel for riding honors at Bowie their mounts iri the Homeland are of more than passing interest Shuk will be astride Roaring Bull while Nelson is scheduled to be in the irons on Tip n nA A field of about eight is anticipated for the Dixie on Saturday and it appears that the high weight starter may be Brook ¬ meade Stables Capeador under 116 pounds poundsContinued Continued on Page Forty Pimlicos EighteenDay Spring Meeting Begins BeginsPreakness Preakness Big May 22 Highlight Correlation Arrives for Fixture FixtureContinued Continued from Page One Onealthough although there still is a possibility that Mrs Ada L Rices Pet Bully under 119 may be entered enteredOpposing Opposing either or bbth of these will be J S Phipps Parnassus Greentree Stables Straight Face Rokeby Stables Magic Lamp Belair Studs Golden Gloves Bruce S Campbells Ram o War Kencal Stud Farms Abbezac and Joe W Browns Mata gorda gordaArrival Arrival of Correlation at Friendship Air ¬ port this afternoon was another develop ¬ ment in Pimlicos stakes program R S Lytles colt beaten favorite in the Ken ¬ tucky Derby is expected to participate in the Preakness on May 22 and with De ¬ termine the Derby victor having shipped to California Correlation doubtless will ba one of the wellsupported members of the Preakness field fieldNot Not too many changes have been made at the Maryland Jockey Club plant for the opening tomorrow The reason for this is that an entire rebuilding program is slated to start immediately after the spring meet ¬ ing which ends May 27 27Before Before the fall season opens November 4 Pimlico proposes to have a complete new clubhouse of modern design and a large portion of the grandstand rebuilt Visitors at the spring meeting will see evidence of the early work on this project for the footings are already in and are marked by squares of blacktop along the usual spread of concrete One item which has been finished is the grading of the apron in front of the grandstand and this is now at a permanent slant eliminating a series of stops which formerly marked this por ¬ tion of the grounds
