Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-17
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AT Laurel, It's the Chesapeake

IN NEW YORK TOMORROW they'll be running the
Wood Memorial and therel be quite a few big names
involved such Eddie Arcaro and Willie Shoemaker and
First Landing and Intentionally.
But at Laurel thereT be the Chesapeake Stakes a
$4,000 added event and the 38h running too and tnS
is not to be overlooked before the Kentucky
Derby The winner of the Derby may not out Of the
Chesapeake field, but it might
Citation won the Chesapeake in 1913 and not only
the Derby but the Triple Crown we'll And before
Citation Whiskery Cavalcade and War Admiral used the
Chesapeake springboard to triumphs at Churchill
Downs. War Admiral also Triple Crown winner.
Among those in the field tomorrow at Laurel-indeed,
probably heading it's Pen Boero recent winner of the
Governors Gold Cup and colt whose style of running
indicates he may go distance This is Preakness
and Belmont Stakes nominee but there others that
also are eligible for the Derby.
Rare Rice for instance, is one So is Cedar Brook,
also owned by Mrs Ada L. Rice impressive winner in
overnight off track last Saturday at Laurel
SONNY WORKMAN is ONE who leans toward Cedar
Brook if the track isn't fast The 49year-old Hall of
Fame rider, of towns own, coming off visit
to Laurel when he talked of Cedar Brook.
"He isn't any Equpose," Sonny saying, "but in
this well matched field Cedar Brook is good choice
any, The way he won last Saturday and with so much
ease, gives him an edge far I'm concerned. The
added distance? 1t won't bother him."
Equpose always will be the favorite of Workman, who
was the Nations leading winning jockey in 1929-So
and 1888 and who quit at 30 to count and expand his
earnings Beyond any question of doubt Sonny says,
'Equpoise the best rode
There other good ones, I'll admit. Top
Flight, King Saxon, Commonwealth, Whichone, Question
nare, Boojum Menow and I've forgotten, ofhand,
were good horses. But Equpose was the big one"
WORKMAN, SITTING IN BOX at LAUREL stirs up
memories of Workman the rider at the Maryland track
back in the days when wasn't quite sumptuous Sonny
rode many winner at Laurel well at Havre de Grace
where the Chesapeake used to be rum
Ironically, Workman doesn't remember winning the
Chesapeake. 1t was back in 1888 and Sonny up
test in 1451 followed by Mythical King and Blind Eagle
"I Just don't seem to place that in my memory"
Sonny smiled perpexedly "The Chesapeake, race,
stands out in my mind It's just that don't recall much
about winning on Bourbon King
1.-THE Chesapeake that I remember well was one
didn't wn probably because the horse that year went on
to win the Kentucky Derby. That Whiskerys year
1927"
"I WAS TO HAVE RIDDEN Whiskery in the Chesa-
peake but three days before the fell at Havre de
Grace I remember the mount that took me down
Tpperary Mary. broke my coarbone and Lou Schaefer
got the mount on Whiskery in the Chesapeake.
They wor-Lou and Whiskery-and the horse shipped
to Louisville and the Derby That's the Chesapeake
I remember best"
Workman rode in other CheSapeakes, oddly recalling
the occasions better than when he The year after
his victory aboard Bourbon King he close with Alfred
Vanderbilts Impound, second to Gilded Knight.
That real nice race" Sonny recalls "Impound
all right It's funny that don't remember winning
on Bourbon King. 1t really is"