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Proud One Shoulders Top Weight in Carroll Today Calumet Miss Burdened With 121 Pounds — Has Seven Opponents BALTIMORE, Md., May 6.— The Carroll Handicap, a run of six furlongs exclusively for fillies and mares, will have its fourth renewal as the stellar attraction on tomorrows attractive "Preakness Week" bill at Picturesque Pimlico. This feature has drawn a promised field of eight of the swiftest members of the sex in training, with Warren Wrights light-footed homebred, Proud One, the starting top weight under 121 pounds. This four-year-old daughter of the imported Blenheim II. and Some Pomp also looms as a topheavy public favorite. So much a standout, in fact, is Ben Jones charge that handicapper McLennan s weight assignments dip sharply from 121 on the Kentucky mare to 110 on the Aberdeen Stables blue roan, Sun Ginger, who is next highest in the imposts. The others named are E. G. Hackneys She Dast, under 108 pounds; Breckinridge Longs Equipet 106, J. B. Belks Blustering 105, Lavan Stables Chuckle 104, H. P. Headleys Aureole 103, and G. F. Stricklands Pompa Negri under a feathery 102. The comparatively light assignments on Chuckle, Pompa Negri, She Dast and Equipet are explained, in part, by the fact each of this quartet is a three-year-old. Two of the field, Pompa Negri and Equipet, also are in the afternoons fifth offering, a six-furlong overnight test for three-year-olds styled the Timonium. They may come out of the stake to fill that engagement. Proud One won her only start of 1942 to date at Churchill Downs with such an impressive show of speed that she shapes up as a strong favorite for this fixture despite the disadvantage in the weights.
