Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan.
In the make-believe setting of California's Santa Anita Park, Dauber had finished second to Stagehand in the $60,000 Santa Anita Derby. In the carnival surroundings...