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. . i Loyal Legion Arrives at Suffolk With Strong Backing for Yankee j Ten Regarded as Probables For 5,000 Stake; Secnav And Hyblaze Declared Out SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass.. May 22. With all Yankee Handicap probables on the grounds and with their final important conditioning preps well recorded on the workout tabs, the field for the 5,000 stake has finally taken shape. A late check this morning reveals that no less than 10 will start in the mile and three-sixteenths jaunt, with Walter M. Jeffords Loyal Legion, William Helis Jobs-town, Rarco Stables Atomic Power and Deering Howes Donor remaining as the principal contestants. Loyal Legion and End of Strife, the latter a promising gelding, who will run coupled with Jobstown, arrived here this morning. The others slated to see action are Marlet Stables Kerry and Royal Lover, R. B. Carrolls Belrate, Green Hill Stables Bull Tar and Buckley and Locklears Sun Beau Go. With 61 thoroughbreds eligible and weighted by racing secretary John P. Turner, there is always a chance that several extreme outsiders will find themselves in the post parade. However, according to current form and training moves their chances of cutting a. figure in New Englands richest test for sophomores seem virtually impossible. Weight Imposing Burden Sentiment locally has very definitely swung from Atomic Power, winner of last week-ends Constitution Handicap, with the market for Loyal Legion and Donor showing much activity. The Rarco colts main obstacle seems to be his rather imposing burden of 123 pounds, four more than he carried in the. Constitution. He has never beaten the caliber of opposition he faces in the Yankee, even at level weights. Last Saturdays race, though, was impressive enough and only slight improvement would be needed to bring him down to the wire on top. Loyal Legion comes here bedecked with flattering praise. After a juvenile campaign that found him winning a pair of races and competing against the best of his division, including First Flight, Jet Pilot, Fervent and others, he wasnt raced during the winter, nor was he rushed during the spring when inclement weather retarded his training moves. He has started only three times this season, his bow being in an allowance race at Havre de Grace and he came home handily by four lengths. Next he tried some of the better three-year-olds in the Survivor Stakes at Pimlico and his effort took him several pegs up the ladder when he just failed to nip Mityme on the wire after closing with a tremendous rush in the last eighth of a mile. Loyal Legion was then moved back to MRS. F. A. CLARK Her colors finished one-two in yesterdays forty-second running of the Corinthian Steeplechase Handicap. Havre de Grace, where he captured the Potomac Stakes in a fashion that was marked as almost brilliant, scoring by six lengths in a common gallop. The fact that he drops weight from that effort makes him more dangerous. His assignment for the Yankee is 114, as compared to his Potomac allotment of 117. Donor is the big question mark of the Yankee. He has started but once this season, that being in the Swift Stakes at Belmont Park on May 7. He showed a creditable effort, finishing fourth in back of Owners Choice, I Will and Brabancon. Before shipping here, however, he worked a mile in 1:40 over a muddy strip at Belmont Park."" The Yankee lost one of its strong contenders, when it was reported that the Mill River Stables Secnav pulled up sore after winning an allowance race at Belmont Park yesterday. This was to have been used as the final test for the Yankee, but because of the mishap the colt probably will be relegated to the sidelines. The Belair stud also declared Hyblaze out of the race, preferring to keep the colt in New York for his engagement in the Belmont Stakes.
