The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-04
BY WILLIAM BRAUCHER (NEA Service Sports Editor)

New York, April BOA rich about $5O,00O when the Preakness is run May at old Pimlico. The moral would seem to be them as has gits."
 Three young millionaires have entered three horses in the 5S- year-old classic of spring racing in Maryland. The horses will be fa- vorite when they go to the post. The names (horses first) are Equi- boise, Twenty Grand and Mate, and the wealthy young men who will send them to the post are, in the same order as the horses, Cornelius V. Whitney. J. H. Whitney and A. c. Bostwick.
 Cornelius (Sonny) Whitney's Equipoise apparently will be the hot favorite. Months ago he was quoted lin the winter books on the Kentucky Derby at 4 to 1. But Equipoise has no such field to lick as Gallant Fox lined up with last year. This years Preakness candidates have what horsemen call class. and 1t should be a memorable battle.
 J. H. (Jock) Whitney, son of Mrs Payne Whitney and cousin of Sonny, is bringing his fine 3-year- old Twenty Grand to the races. Be- tween the two Whitney families there has always been the keenest rivalry. The boys are merely carry ing on the traditions of their fathers. Harry Payne Whitney and Payne Whitney, who spent millions in bat ties of the turf. The boys are ready to spend some millions, too.
 The battle proper is expected to be between Equipoise and Twenty Grand, but word drifts in from Maryland that Mate. the A. c. Bost- wick entry, was never in better con- dition.
 Tremendous fortunes are behind the three young men whose horses seem to be the top choices for the first big battle of the year for g. year-old supremacy. Great resources were left to Cornelius V. Whitney by the late Harry Payne Whitney, whose horses swept the turf from 1926 to 1880. except for a year when E. B. Mclean was the leading money-winner. J. H. Whitney in- herited the Payne Whitney fortune, numbering many bothersome mill lions. Bostwick, an heir to Standard oil millions is a nephew of Mrs F. Ambrose Clark. who presented S4,O00,000 on his 21st birthday. On 2-year-old form, Equipoise should sweep every important B. year-old stake of the turf season. He is an Iron Man McGinnity of the tracks. He was subjected to the most thorough kind of tests as a colt, having had 16 races last year. | In some of them he was beaten, but only by chorus-boy's whisker, be- cause he was slow to get under way from the barrier.
 oddly, the late H. P. Whitney, who knew Equipoise only as a yearling. thought lightly of the horse. He once told Jimmy Rowe that he deemed Equipoise an ordi- nary runner.
 "Send him to Bowie," was his ad- vice to Rowe, i" and he might win a few cheap races"
 Equipoise proved to be the most sensational of the 2-year-olds. but his owner died before the colt had won his fame.
 | Of Twenty Grand, 1t may De sald that he knows how to beat Equi- boise, anyway. In the Kentucky Jockey club stakes, with weights of 122 pounds, Twenty Grand beat Equipoise by head. running the mile in 1:36. But if it rains on Preakness day, Twenty Grands chances will be considerably dimin- ished as he does not fancy the splashing. In Maryland later in the year, Equipoise paid Twenty Grand
 back by handing him an artistic trimming in the mire.
 Mate won some good races last year. He wastes no time in starting
 but there seems to be some question about his route abilities. He wor eight out of IS races as a 2-year-old and Jim Healy says the horse never
 was readier than he is right now.