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Needles Reaches Pimlico To Prepare for Preakness Derby Winner Playful; Fabius, Count Chic/ No Regrets Arrive By CHARLES HATTON PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 9. — Needles, winner of the Kentucky Derby, arrived here at noon today to prepare for the 00,000 Preakness, middle jewel in the Triple Crown, scheduled a week from Saturday. The handsome bay colt was playful and composed despite his 24-hour rail trip from Churchill Downs in Louisville. He posed for numerous photographers en route and even took attention away from former President Harry S. Truman, who rode a part of the way on the same train. Winner of three consecutive races of more than 00,000 in his latest starts, Needles was accompanied by his trainer, Hugh Fontaine, and was bedded down here with seven stablemates and a pony. Three other colts who made creditable showings in the Kentucky Derby also ar, rived at Pimlico for the 80th running of the mile and three-sixteenths Preakness. Calumet Farms Fabius, second to Needles in the Derby, completed the trip by train, while two California hopefuls, Count Chic and No Regrets, who ran fourth and Continued on Paoe Six Needles Reaches Pimlico To Prepare for Preakness Derby Winner Playful; Fabius, Count Chic, No Regrets Arrive Continued from Page One seventh, respectively, arrived on a van after a 24-hour drive. Fabius is scheduled to get his first work over the Pimlico track Thursday morning. I Trainer Jimmy Jones already has expressed the opinion that the Calumet colt j will improve off his effort in the Derby, i in which he was beaten only three-quarters of a length. Needles also will get on the track Thursday for a "getting-acquainted" session. Just what he will do in the way of galloping is problematical, since the colt is notorious for making up his own mind about workouts. i I At least one other Derby horse — Come , On Red — who finished a surprising .third, is scheduled to ship here to try for the j Preakness.
