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BEGINS CAMPAIGN IN FLORIDA Volitant to Prepare for 1939 Stakes at Hialeah Park. Saratoga Stable Juvenile One of Few to Threaten Supremacy of Champion EI Chico. MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 17. Saratoga Stables Volitant, one of the ranking two-year-olds of 1938, will launch his three-year-old campaigning at Hialeah Park this winter, a schedule which utimately. will lead to the colts preparation for the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and other big specials of 1939. Volitant is owned jointly by George H. Bull and John A. Morris, president and sec-retary-treasrer, respectively, of the Saratoga Racing Association. Purchased for only ,500 as a yearling at the Spa sales last year, the big, strapping son of Display Flighty Anna has turned out to prove a rare bargain as well as the only horse to extend the unbeaten champion, El Chico, this season. It was in the Junior Champion at Aqueduct that Volitant came within inches of handing El Chico the only defeat of his brilliant career. In all, Volitant started six times a light campaign so mapped because of the fact that hes still growing and has won four races. He concluded his schedule at Pim-lico recently when he finished second to the Miami-developed filly, Inscoelda, in the historic Walden Handicap, losing by a neck in ,a breath-taking finish. Some were inclined to think that Volitant loafed after getting to the front and refused to extend himself when Inscoelda made her bold stretch run. Prior to the Walden, the Bull-Morris representative had taken the Spalding Lowe Jenkins at Laurel, worth ,950. And in front of the Laurel stake he placed to El Chico in the Junior Champion, scored in the Saratoga Sales Stakes and in overnight races at Saratoga and Aqueduct. In his debut at Aqueduct, Volitant, unheralded and unsung, won and paid 30 to 1. He had been unbeaten until El Chico whipped him in the Junior Champion. His earnings total 2,960. Bull and Morris realize that Hialeah Park is an ideal place to develop growing thoroughbreds under the rays of the beneficial sunshine for which Miami is justly celebrated, and the noted sportsmen of New York thus look forward eagerly to Volitants stay here this winter. He will be shipped, it is expected, from Pimlico under the supervision of the veteran trainer, A. J. Golds-borough, within a week or so. Volitant will be pointed for the 0,000 added Flamingo Stakes, Hialeahs blue-ribbon event for coming three-year-olds, on Saturday, February 25, and it is understood that he also will be nominated for the 0,000 Widener Handicap, the richest- of the Hialeah specials, set for decision on Saturday, March 4. The Widener, won last year by War Admiral, is for three-year-olds and upward at one mile and a quarter. Nine other rich stakes will grace the pretentious program of the Miami Jockey Club during its forty-six-day session, January 11 to March 4. Entries closed Tuesday, November 15, for the Widener, the Flamingo, the Seminole and the Everglades, while all other stakes close during the meeting.
