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i i | , , ] I I j | Field of at Least Twelve ■ I ! Seen for Wood Memorial I List Additional Six as Probables ! For 5,000 Jamaica Feature i JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., April 20.— A field , of at least a dozen are expected to go post-ward Saturday in the 5,000 Wood Memorial at Jamaica, and this group includes all of the "name* horses now in the East. Racing secretary-handicapper John B. Campbell considers 12 as almost certain to contest the twentieth running of New Yorks premier Kentucky Derby preview, with another half dozen remote prospects who might accept the issue in the mile and one-sixteenth fixture. The probables for the Wood are Col. C. V. Whitneys Pukka Gin and Greentree Stables Stir Up, who will probably share the public support; Mrs. T. Christophers Bel Reigh, who will also have a following; William Helis Olympic Zenith, winner of j the Louisiana Derby; George D. Wideners 5 Lucky Draw, A. A. Baronis Autocrat, Mrs. ; Ethel D. Jacobs Stymie, Marise Farms J Frisky Fire, Mrs. Donald H. Peters Bull J Dandy, R. A. Cowards Doggone, and Mill 1 River Stables Sweeping Time, who will run as an entry with Bel Reigh, both being sad-| died by Harris Brown. The doubtful sextet are Cain Hoy Stables Tit Tat Toe, Mrs. Roy Carruthers Jimmie, Walter S. Homes Tex Martin, • Mrs. T. J. Carrolls Weyanoke and Mill 1 River Stables Captains Aide and Spheric. • Topped Campbells Ratings Pukka Gin was rated best of the 1943 - juveniles by Campbell in his weights for the Experimental Free Handicap, in which 1 the son of Firethorn — Crauneen came from far back after a rough trip to be so narrowly beaten that jockey Atkinson thought t he had actually won the race. The oddly named, but pleasingly constructed colt has s worked steadily since the Experimental on n April 12, going a mile and one-eighth in n l:582s, Wednesday morning at Belmont. ;. He was breezing throughout that jaunt and ij | i was eased at the end. ] Stir Up was a breezing winner of the e other half of the split Experimental and leaped to prominence during the winter r when he triumphed in the Flamingo at t Hialeah. He worked a handy seven-eighths s at Belmont on Tuesday, dockers catching him in 1:2825 over a track classified as s good. Eel Reigh and Stymie were romping win- - | ■ I ! I ! i , ners of the two divisions of the St. James Purse at a mile and 70 yards here on Tuesday. Bull Dandy and Olympic Zenith were the runners-up in that split feature. While Bull Dandy did not appear to hare any excuse, the same cannot be said of Olympic Zenith, who was permitted to drop almost 15 lengths behind Stymies pace going down the short backstretch. A patrol judge expressed the opinion that jockey Jemas was deceived from the conformation of the Jamaica strip and did not realize he was hopelessly out of it until too late. When he started to run, the Zenith really turned it on and swept past all but Stymie, who was leading by several lengths at the head of the stretch.
