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TWENTY GRANDS FAST TIME Works Mile and Quarter in 2:05% — Jamestown Goes Same Distance in 2:12. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 4.— The Green-tree Stables Twenty Grand showed a brilliant trial over the Belmont Park main track Thursday morning in preparation for his meeting with George D. Wideners Jamestown in the Belmont Stakes, which will be run June 13. The son of St. Germans and Bonus covered a mile and a quarter in 2:00%, while the Widener colt, which accounted for the rich Withers last Saturday, worked the same distance over the slower training track in 2:12. Trainer James Rowe sent Twenty Grand out on the course with Marshall Lilly in the saddle. The Greentree colt went to the half mile mark in :48%, passed the six furlongs point in 1:13 flat, was caught the mile in 1:3814, the mile and a furlong in 1:51%, and was fighting for his head in the final furlong. Twenty Grand cooled out nicely. Jamestown, with jockey McAtee up, was sent along- slowly under orders of trainer Joyner. He covered the first half in :53T5. the six furlongs in 1:20, the mile in 1:46, mile and a furlong in 1:59, and rounded out the mile and a quarter in 2:12. The trial of Jamestown is all that is needed at this time to hold his racing edge.
