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Native Dancer to Parade At Sagamore on May 15 Scribes on Hand for Preakness Will Inspect Vanderbilt Stallion BALTIMORE, Md., May 2. — N a t i v e Dancer of the Year 1954, will parade once again for the sportswriters and television cameramen who made his name a household word. More than 80 reporters and photographers who will be at Pimlico to cover the 83rd running of the 50,000 added Preakness on May 16 will be taken the day before to Sagamore Farm where The Dancer now is a successful stallion for his owner, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Sagamore, the largest and one of thes most beautiful horse farms in Maryland, is only 10 miles from Pimlico, where Native Dancer won the Preakness in 1953. The gray colt, now nine years old and almost totally white, wilUbe paraded for the news and cameramen in his private paddock by farm manager Harold Ferguson. Native Dancer was retired in 1954 with victories in 21 of his 22 races, his only loss having been in the 1953 Kentucky Derby when he was badly blocked at the first turn. He won 18 stakes races and 85,240 in purses. The visiting press will see several of his sons and daughters at Sagamore.
