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CUDGEL FOR KENTUCKY HANDICAP Star of the Older Division of the Ross Stable Point ¬ ing for Campaign in Blue Grass State BALTIMORE Mil May 1 Cudgel winner of the Brooklyn Pimlico Spring and Kentucky Handi ¬ caps of 1918 and with the possible exception of the Bowie CUD winner Oeorge Smith the champion handicap horse of the year will1 bo a sure starter in the 1919 Kentucky Handicap Churchill Downs great 10000 race at one mile and a quarter for threeyearolds and over and the most valuable of its kind that will be run in the United States Cudgel which wintered at Laurel Park with Com ¬ mander 1 K L Ross Derby candidates Billy Kfelly and Sir Burton and his Preakness candidate War Pennant is training superbly The only reason he did niot start at Havre lie Grace on Saturday in the Susquehanna Handicap the race la which Vindex proved that he was of the stuff of which Preakriess and Derby winners are made was that H G Bedwell Commander Ross trainer believed that Foreground was good enough to win winCudgel Cudgel is not perhaps as far advanced as is Billy Kelly hut lie is ready for a bruising effort at one mile or one mile niid a sixteenth and Bed well believes lie will be fit enough on May 7 to win the impending renewal of the Pimlico Spring Handicap It will be a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth It was in tlie 1918 renewal of this special that Cudgel which had made his racing reputation in the west convinced a skeptical cast that he was a horse of the highest quality by trimming Omar Khayyani KhayyaniThe The horse that will go west with Cudgel to start in the Kentucky and Clark Handicaps immediately after the running of the Pimlico Spring Handicap is Boniface Boniface himself is a good performer and he is fit His race with the rejuvenated Old Rosebud the other day at Havre de Grace was an eyeopener to the eastern talent Boniface was not supposed to be a sprinter yet he finished secoml a couple of lengths back of Old Rosebud and well in front of Milkmaid and Straight Forward Not having any such reputation as Cudgel made last year and the year before Boniface will get in the western handicaps light Whether the English colt Foreground the same which ran Exterminator to a half length in last falls renewal of the Pimlico Autumn Handicap will journey to Kentucky with Cudgel and Boniface Is problematical However if Bedwell decides to take Foreground west the Ken tuckians will see a good horse in the son of Fugel manT Sketches Foreground is not afraid of a long distance SIR BARTON HIGHLY REGARDED REGARDEDBedwell Bedwell was not sure that Sir Barton was the colt to send west witlr Billy Kelly for the great Derby at Churchill Downs until the son of Star Shoot Lady Sterling which claims Sir Martin for halfbrother until Sir Barton worked one mile and an eighth at Havre de Grace on Friday in 154 Sir Barton by all odds the handsomest individual of the Rossthreeyearoldsis a fast smooth gal ¬ loper Last fall before he suffered an attack of blood poisoning which was near tlie killing of him lie could do anything in work that Billy Kelly could do and as impressively But the malady from which he suffered often leaves horses that seem to recover completely with constitutional weakr nesses and Bedwell wanted to be sure Sir Barton was right before lie announced a plan of campaign for him lie is convinced now that Sir Barton is as sound constitutionally as any horse in his stable and that lie is as formidable a Derby prospect as may be found in the east Most of the horsemen who wintered at Laurel Park are in agreement with him Milkmaid is to go west for the Oaks at Churchill Downs and divers other races Her Havre de Grace form has been reassuring She did not prove good enough to pack J10 l Punjls and beat Old Rose ¬ bud last Friday but there are a lot of mares that cannot beat Old Rosehiid when he is right as he seems to be now But she did beat Toto and Tick lish and Routledgc without great difficulty earlier in the Havre de Grace nieeting and she is training splendidly At Pihijicp last fall there was little or nothing to choose between Milkmaid and War Pennant lie tlie winner of the 5000 Walden Stakes Tlie Peep oDay filly is not as robust a threeyearold as is War Pennant but she is not hadly developed for a mare and if her public form is reliable she is not going to balk at a good distance of round She was not cut out for sprinting
