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Peo Well, Rippey, New Moon Shoulder Top Assignments in Jennings Handicap Calumet Racer Endeavors to* Repeat His Recent Score in Baltimore Spring Handicap PIMLICO, Baltimore. Md.. May 1.— The Maryland Jockey Club will present the nineteenth running of the ,500 Jennings Handicap as its feature attraction tomorrow and 10 fine sprinters, including two previous winners of the six furlongs dash, were entered as overnight starters. H. Guy Bedwells veteran speedster, Sol-lure, who captured the race in 1944, and Henry L. Straus New Moon, last years winner, are the two who will strive to become repeaters. Sollure will have a running mate in the capable sprinter Prognosis. Calumet Farms Pep Well, W. Helis Rippey and New Moon are the high weights in the field, all having been assigned 120 pounds by racing secretary Charles McLennan. The field also comprises Mrs. M. E. Whitneys Gustaf, 117; Christiana Stables Joshua, 113; Dion K. Kerr. Jr.s, Flying Weather, 108; Alfred Vanderbilts Kitchen Police, 116, and Frank J. Rowes Blue Pom, 115. The track was slow when todays program opened, but was expected to improve steadily under a beaming sun, thus holding out the promise of a fast track for tomorrows Jennings renewal. However, the time record of 1:10% for the. stake, held by Ocean Blue 1942 was expected to remain intact. Despite the well-established capabilities of several members of tomorrows group, the Pimlico track is extremely dead this spring and prospects for a new track standard are remote. Calumet Farm, whose silks have been signally successful in Maryland this spring, may provide the favorite in Pep Well, a royally bred four-year-old son of Boswell who turned in a smart performance in capturing the Baltimore Spring Handicap on opening day. A stakes winner during his three-year-old season. Pep Well indicated in the Spring Handicap that he had attained top form by racing six furlongs in 1:126 to defeat Kitchen Police and Prognosis, among others. Pep Well, however, takes up six pounds tomorrow over the 114 burden he shouldered in the Spring Handicap. William Helis handsome four-year-old cold, Rippey, has disappointed on two occasions in Maryland this spring, but the fleet bay son of Pompey is expected to reveal marked improvement tomorrow and his connections feel the Jennings will signal his return to winning form. In his first start at Havre de Grace, the Pompey colt was in all sorts of difficulty, but closed well enough to finish third behind Sollure and Flash Burn in an allowance affair run over a heavy track. In a subsequent engagement ► over the Harford County course Rippey set a fast pace before striking his colors to such sprinters as Air Patrol and Pavot. Kitchen Polices clever second to Pep Well in the Baltimore Spring Handicap, in which he was only beaten a nose by the latter, indicated trainer Duval Headley has brought the well-bred son of Discovery — Galley Slave into peak condition. The Van-derbilt colt picks up only two pounds over his 114-pound assignment in the Spring Handicap and figures to prove extremely formidable in the Jennings field. New Moon, a stakes winner during the 1946 season, always has been a clever performer at six furlongs, although his last race at Havre de Grace, in which he finished last behind Air Patrol, Pavot and others, left much room for improvement. The seven-year-old son of Discovery — Ladyinthemoon quit badly in the closing stakes of that six-furlong race, suggesting he was very short. New Moon has worked impressively, however, since being returned to Pimlico.
