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LIST SEVEN PROBABLES FOR MILE OF WITHERS WITHERSKing King Cole May Display His Speed in Saturdays Belmont Fixture Whirlaway Not Eligible to Race RaceNEW NEW YORK N Y May 13 Robert Mor ¬ ris winner of the Excelsior at Jamaica and later beaten in the Kentucky Derby put in a good move for his engagement for Satur ¬ days Withers when he breezed five furlongs in 104 at Belmont Park this morning morningSeveral Several other candidates for the sixty sixth running of the Withers were seen in action during todays racing among them Greentree Stables Monday Lunch and H L Myers Sheriff Culkin CulkinWhirlaway Whirlaway winner of the Derby and Preakness double is not an eligible for the weekends 5 000 added mile test which may make for a larger field fieldLeading Leading prospects just now are Brook meade Stables Mettlesome J F Byer Jrs Robert Morris Greentree Stables Monday Lunch H L Myers Sheriff Culkin Crispin Oglebays Ocean Blue A J Sacketts Rich ¬ mond and Ogden Phipps King Cole ColeKing King Cole is reported to have come out of his Preakness engagement in which he was second to Whirlaway none the worse for wear and jockey Johnny Gilbert who did such a masterful job of handling the Phipps colt in the Baltimore classic is to ride him again in the Withers WithersNOTABLE NOTABLE ABSENTEES ABSENTEESOur Our Boots Porters Cap Swing and Sway and New World all are eligible for the Sat ¬ urday stake but none of the four is expected to start startTrainer Trainer Tom Smith of Porters Cap has announced his intention of not starting that Californian while trainer Gaver of Swing and Sway likewise has said that this Greentree colt cannot be rated a probable but that if Monday Lunch came out of his engagement well today he would be the stables main reliance relianceNew New World it is indicated will not be a Withers starter while Our Boots may be given a freshening after an arduous spring campaign Curious Coin is not an eligible for the Withers WithersThe The Withers last year was won by Green tree Stables outsider Corydon who encom ¬ passed the defeat of two such speedsters as Bimelech and Roman to add his name to the Withers honor roll Monday Lunch will be essaying to make it two straight for the first lady of the American turf
