Tim Tam on Preakness Scene; Several Rivals Due at Track: Trainer Sovinski Will File ,500 Supplemental Entry For Blumbergs Lincoln Road, Daily Racing Form, 1958-05-07

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Tim Jam oh Preakness Scene Several Rivals Due at Track Trainer Sovinski Will File 7500Supp1emental Entry For Blumbergs Lincoln Road RoadBy By CHARLES HATTON HATTONPIMLICO PIMLICO Baltimore Md May 6 Mrs Gene Markeys slashing brown Tim Tarn bearing his newly won Kentucky Derby honors with all the dignity of his good breeding detrained at Pimlicbs Mt Wash ¬ ington siding at 1020 this morning Sev ¬ eral score photographers reporters and horse lovers greeted him despite a chilly rain arid the colts personable developer Mayor Jimmy Jones was on hand to see the Tom Fool Two Lea colt safely unload ¬ ed and made comfortable in barn J on the Fimlico backstretch The pro tern cham ¬ pion of the seasons threeyearolds ap ¬ peared none the worse for rattling across the Appalachians 27 hours from Churchill Downs DownsTim Tim Tarn lay down and slept two or three times but the trip was almost rough as the Derby itself said groom Walter Perkins Jones who motored over from fromContinued Continued on Page Eight Tim Tarn on Scene Of Rich Preakness PreaknessTrainer Trainer Sovinski Will File 7500 Supplemental Entry For Blumbergs Lincoln Road RoadContinued Continued from Page One OneGarden Garden State said He will only walk un ¬ der the shed Wednesday and probably graze outside the barn He may get to the track Thursday There is no hurry He is fit and he doesnt take a lot of training anyway anywayTim Tim Tarn was accompanied by seven stablemates Three of these A Glitter Smileytown and Simon Kentori remain on at Pimlico for races during the short but sweet spring meeting The others vanned immediately to Garden State StateSilky Silky Sullivan the pied piper of the Der ¬ by was to detrain from Louisville later today at About 6 pm Many of the Balti ¬ more chapter of his marching and chowder club appear prepared to forgive the Ross and Klipstein colt freely for his lapse in the Derby The Baltimore sons of St Patrick have planned a huge welcoming committee for the Californian whose ex ¬ plosive Stretch run fizzled in a furlong last Saturday Trainer Rsggie Cornell is on the train with his redoubtable charge Also on this P R R special is Llangollens Gone Fishin who bogged down to eighth place in the Derby still cnce again beat Silky Sullivan SullivanMrs Mrs Elizabeth Grahams Jewels Reward and company are en route from Louisville and are to detrain at nearby Mt Washing ¬ ton on Wednesday morning Julius travel ¬ ing companions are Ebony Pearl and Jets Alibi either of whom is himself better than an empty stall Vanning in Wednes ¬ day is Sunny Blue Farms astonishing Lin ¬ coln Road bangup second to Tim Tarn in both the Florida and Kentucky Derbys Trainer Vince Sovinski of Lincoln Road flies here from Chicago in a few hours to make the 7500 ante which is required be ¬ fore he can become a supplemental candi ¬ date Owner Isaac Blumberg fancies The sixteenth shorter distance of the Preakness will be beneficial to my colt Plion to Go in Delaware Valley ValleyTrainer Trainer Tom Jolley of the Blue Grass Stakes winner Plion will van the Greek Ship colt to Garden State for the Delaware Valley Stakes there Saturday after which he will be returned to Pimlico with a pros ¬ pect he will represent Edward Potter Jr in the Preakness PreaknessMeanwhile Meanwhile there is a poignant aware ness of the wayward weather here on the old hilltop Everyone naturally is hopeful that unlike the Derby the Preakness will b presented on a surface affording no builtin excuses for any of the 15 who now are considered probables According to Irving Krick and Associates Preakness week end is fortunately between two storm periods one about May 13T14 the other about May 1920 A minor shower period is in prospect for May 16 with cool and clear weather on Preakness Day Track super Henry Berryman observed the Pimlico sur ¬ face can be sloppy in the morning fast for the fourth or fifth race He speaks from 24 years experience with it itIt It is learned from Churchill Downs that trainer Slim Pierce will ship Noureddin here for the Preakness on Wednesday or Thursday Noureddin was beaten a total of a length for the top honors in the Derby going outside five horses to make a bold stretch run So competent an observer as George Edward Arcaro was impressed with his showing


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