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HEELFLYS TRAINING PROGRESS Vanderbilt Crack Recovers From Bad Injury Fogelson Preparing Dauber for Rich Stakes. ARCADIA, Calif., Nov. 18. That Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt has Heelf ly back in training and galloping satisfactorily, in Maryland, to be his chief representation in the 5100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, and that Lauber, with the E. E. Fogelson string at Narragansett, has recovered from the disastrous injury that put him on the shelf and will be ready for the local season, are indirect bits of cheering information received by the Los Angeles Turf Club. Heelf ly has been out of training and away from the races ever since he was taken seriously sick while being shipped out here by T. P. Morgan, and was later acquired by Vanderbilt. As a three-year-old, in 1937, the Royal Ford colt was a sensation. He won the Inaugural Handicap at Latonia, Warren Handicap at Narragansett, Potomac Handicp at Havre de Grace, and ran Seabis-cuit that widely-heralded dead-heat in the Laurel Stakes. Naturally, Heelflys training will be closely followed, and with the popular Silvio Cou-cci signed up as the Vanderbilt rider, there will be added interest. E. E. Fogelson took a chance when he bought Dauber, after the Preakness winner had gone wrong out here last summer, and it will be good news to get him back in the running after the long lay-off. If Dauber, only a three-year-old, can regain his old form, it will put him right up among the top nominees and prospective contenders. Hal Price Headley is reported to have selected Bourbon King and Preeminent to head the ten-horse division that he will shortly ship to Santa Anita in charge of Duval Headley. Bourbon King, winner of the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace last spring, would loom a formidable nominee in the big race, and Preeminent, winner of five Important sprint stakes in the East this season, would be an outstanding entry for those 0,000 added Santa Anita fixtures, where the distance is seven furlongs and under.
