The Washington times., 1938-05-12
Workman Seeks
Double" In
Preakness
WILL PILOT MENOW
Kurtsinger May Be lst
Modern Rider to
Score Triple
BY KIRK MILLER

By xxx MILLER
Jockey aspects of any important
thoroughbred test invariably In
trigue your average turf student.
The Pimlico PreamesS to be.run
over a distance of a mile and
three.eights in Baltimore day after
tomorrow presents a jockey angle
that is unique.
The only two boys in the race
who will be trying to repeat will
be riding for the same stable, that
of Hal Price Headley.
They are Washington'S Ray.
mond Sonny" Workman and
Charley Kurtsinger.
SONNY SEEKS SECOND
Workman will have a leg UP on
Menow and Kurtsinger will ride
Dab He. The latter will be out
after his third Preamess victory,
whereas sonny" will be seeking
his second. .
Kurtsinger, as many of you will
remember, was the winning rider
on War Admiral a year ago in the
PreakneSs and previously in 1888
had piloted Mrs. SilaS B. Mason's
Head Play to victory.
Workman's Preakness win was
contributed matter Of ten years
ago, when, in 1928, riding to1
Harry Payne Whitney, he scored
on Victorian while he was yet a
very young Jockey.
Should Kurtsinger be fortunate
enough to ride his third PreakneSs
winner Saturday, he will not bf
the first to accomplish such
feat, albeit he will be the first n
modern PreaknesS history.
ONLY ONE TRIPLE
Away back when the Pimlicc
classic was young, a jockey By
the name of L. Hughes, registered
a triple. In 1875 he won on Tom
Ochiltree. In 1879 he led home
the field on bennington and re
peated the following year or
Grenada.
With any number of jockeys
KurtSinger shares the honorS o.
Having twice ridden PreakneSI
winners.
These double winners stack VI
about like this:
G. Barbee, riding Survivor, thu
first Preakness winner in 1873
came back three years later IL
1875 to score on a horse named
Shirley.
Jockey w. Donohue rode Cul
pepper, the winner of the second
Preakness in 1874 and couldn't re
peat for a dozen years until 1881
when he had as his mount, Dun
boyae, in 1887.
Four jockeys have ridden Freak
ness winners two years hand-run'
ming. One was L. Hughes, de-
scribed above as being a triple
winner. C. H. Holloway won In
1877 and 1878 on Cloverbrook and
Duke of Magenta respectively.
LOTUS WON TWO
T. Costello won in successive
years in 1882 and 1888 on Van
guard and JacobuS, while a com
paratiVely modern jockey, Johnny
LOTUS won in 1918 and 1919 on
A. K. Macomber'S War Cloud and
j. K. L. Ross Sir Barton.
Clarence Hummer completes the
| list of double PreakneSS winning
jockeys. His first victory came in
1920 on Samuel D. Riddles Man
o. War and his second in 1925 on
Clifford A. Cochrane'S Coventry.
OF the owners, there have been
almost as many double winners as
jockeys.
Harry Payne Whitney has won
the Preakness three times as has
Walter j. Salmon. The Payne
Whitney horses to win were Broom.
spun Q924) Bostonian (192D and
Victorian 1929.
The Salmon trio to take the
Preakness were Vigil, 1923; Dis
play, 1926, and DR.. Freeland. 1929.
FIVE IN A ROW!
j. K. L. Ross horses have twice
finished ahead of PreakneSs fields,
Damorosch taking it in 1915 and
Sir Barton in 10.
William Woodward Belair Stud
has twice been a winner, first with
Gallant Fox in 1880 and in 1885
with Omaha.
E. R. Bradley of Lexington, KY,
has won the Preakness twice also
Haitian turned the trick for him
in 1917 and Burgoo King in 1888
But the all-time champion
PreakuesS owner dates away back
to its early history when one G.
L. Lorillard had the winner five
years in a row from 1873 to 1882
in Duge of Magenta. Harold
Grenada, Saunterer and Van
guard.