The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-11
FLEET THREE-YEAR-
OLDS IN PREAKNESS
Eternal, vindex and Dunboyne
to Race for $4,000 Stake
at Pimlico Wednesday.
SIR BARTON ALSO TO RUN
Terentia, Sweep On, American
Ace and Drummond Will
Face Barrier.

BALrrMoRr, Mo. May 1o.--The Freak
ness. 5000 added, q race of one nIle
and furlong for three-year-olds and
the richest thoroughbred event in added
money that will be decided on American
tracks all season, will be renewed al
Pimhco on Wednesday. It will have a
gross value OF upward OF $4,000, for
tnere are Upward Of 100 smart colts and
hllies-sefdings may not start IN ths
Preakness-eligible to start ana of these
some twelve or fifteen have given un-
mistakable evnencs that they are good
enough to take part in the country's
greatest three-year-old event.
the starting fee Is $500 and Is one
OF the perquisites Of the winner. In
pursuance OF practice adopted four or
nve years ago the Maryland Jockey
Club has provided rewards for the first
Tour horses at the hnish-ss,0o0 to the
second. $4,000 TO the third and 81 900 10
tne fourth. all to be deducted from the
ADDED money. However. with twelve
starters the winners compensat,on vii
be y2b.00o, the full added money value
OF the race
Barring the seldinss, BiIly Kelly, Be
frank ana 81 Bernard, ana the Ashland
OAKS winner. Regaio. which seems to be
somsthing OF a ally, the Preakness vii,
attract this season all the ree-year-ord
talent II 10 questionable indeed
whether another such race will be
staged all season. The great horses
are ready because handlers of
thoroushbreds have enjoyed excep.
tional training weather since the first
OF January. The unusual value of the
purse mas stimulated all horsemen to
do their best with their candidates.
A Wonderful Field,
The most prominent Of the potential
starters, horses whose recent achieve
ments on the tracks have brought them
into the racing spotlight, are OF course
Vindex. Eternal. Dunboyne, Sir Barton
ana Terentia. These are the Preakness
candidates that will deserve the greatest
consideration In the betting and get II
Eternal, VindeJ and Sir .-arton are
coming East from Louisville, where thew
went fortnight back to start In The
Kentucky Derby, and they arc trained
to the minute.
Eternal. q son Of Sweep and Hazel
Burke. the conoueror Of Billy Kelly In
tne John X. Mclean memorial cup, the
Juvenile championship race OF 1918, Is
regarded by many Of tho shrewdest Of
american trainers as the greatest three
year-old colt on the continent
Finde1. the hAlf-American half Brit
ish-his sire was the English thorough
bred b. Victrix. his dam the American
mare Bellefontaine. q daughter Of
Watercress and Hamburg Belle
champion Of the stable Of Harry Payne
Whitney. 10 considered By James Rowe
to be n clever . three-ysar-old as has
carried the silks Of the proprietor Of
tho Brookdale stud. Rowe makes no
s.scret Of his belief that vindex can do
anything Johren did last season, and
about twice as well. Johren. Il win be
recalled, won the Belmont Stakes, the
Suburban Handicap, the Saratoga Cup.
the Latonis Derby and the Lawrence
Realisation.
Dunboyne, winner Of the Futurity
Stakes at Belmont Park last September.
trained brilliantly at Belmont Park In
the spring, Unluekily tho public trial
for the Preakness this light footed son
OF Celt and Workmaid was TO have had
In an overnight race at Pimlico last
Tuesday WIS spoiled when Dunboyne
unseated Jockey Ensor at the starting
gate. But the Celt colt proved his
fitness Immediately after the finish Of
this race by gailopins a mile in
40 IS. which WINS tust one and three
hfths seconds quicker time than Sweep
On won In.
The Ross Entry.
Sir Barton, q son Of Star Shoot and
Lady Sterling and q half-brother OF Sir
Martin. the American two-year-old
champion of 1908. Is easily the best
looking and fastest three-year-old colt
In the stable of Commander ]. X. l.
Ross OF Montreal. War Pennant. the
Walden Stakes winner OF last season.
has not trained satisfactorily for the
Preakness Terentia, q superb daughter
Of Cicero and Quesnlet, belonging to
W. r. Cos. has been hailed by the Bel
mont Park trainers who have seen her
work as another Beldame or another
Artful.
Candidates OF lesser distinction, but
performers Of merit nevertheless. are
Mr.. Goes Sweep On, the best looking
three-year-old that has come to Mary
land from Belmont Park and the con-
queror Of Old Rosebud In the race in
which Dunboyne unseated Ensor: Ed
ward Cebrian's California bred fier
American Ace. w. Shea's Drummond,
Henry A. Porter's Pride OF India and
High Born Lady. the former an own
brother OF Dominant. Juvenile hero OF
American racing in ivi5: the Brook
side Stables King Plaudit, n $1,000
ychTlluB
Samuel Ross's Sea Rock and J. H. Ros-
seteTs Passing Shower.
Passing Shower won the Spinaway
Stakes at Saratoga last summer. She
has come up from the South with a Hot
Springs preparation.
Translate, until q few days ago a
member OF the Norris Walden stable, Is
a son OF Transvaal and Eustace. Eus-
tace was an own sister OF that brilliant
mare Kathleen. Translate astonished a
bunch OF exacting trainers at Pimlico
the other day by working mile in
$50 2-b, a mile and a furlong In
:53 AS and a mile and a quarter In
2:o9. II was because OF this work that
M. Marshall paid Robert ]. Walden
81 900 for Translate.
The Preakness win be the first great
race In which Translate will race under
the Marshall silks
Sea Rock Is q trim son OF Vulcain and
Sea Spray which trained at Bennings
track, and Drummond Is q son of Ogden
and Quebec, which developed Derby form
Z New Orleans and Hot Springs.