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Coalf own Doubtful for Preakness Shipping Decision To Be Made Today TodayRailroad Railroad Situation Holds Key to Whether Calumet Will Have Two Starters BULLETIN BULLETINLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 10 The result of Saturdays 100000 Preak ¬ ness may be influenced in some de ¬ gree by whether there is a railroad strike Warren Wright said here to ¬ day that this contingency may alter plans to ship Coaltown from Church ¬ ill Downs to Pimlico to start in the weekend rich threeyearold classic classicWe We expect to know definitely within the next 24 hours whether he will be transferred to Baltimore Warren Wright said adding that Citation was delayed in the Cincin ¬ nati area for about seven hours on his trip from Xouisville to Baltimore Wright and trainer Ben Jones who is in Louisville said they would confer later in the day on the matter of transportation or the lack of it for the Derby runnerupper Wright commented on the possibility that Coaltown would be shipped directly to Belmont Park for racing there PIMLICO Baltimore Md May 10 Whether the Calumet Farms Citation winner of the Ktntucky Derby will go it alone in the 100000 Preakness Stakes here Saturday or will have Coaltown as a run ¬ ning mate as he did in the Blue Grass clas ¬ sic remained a question late today The doubtful status of Coaltown was occasioned by the threatened railroad strike Advices received here from Warren Wright owner of the sensational colts who is at Calumet Farm at Lexington Ky quoted him as say ¬ ing that a decision regarding the shipment of Coaltown was dependent upon a confer ¬ ence with trainer Ben Jones in Louisville LouisvilleAlready Already lost as far as starting possibili ¬ ties in the seventysecond Preakness are concerned are Ben F Whitakers My Re ¬ quest A J Sacketts Gasparilla Bomar Stables Piet and J S Swerseys Wing Messenger MessengerOwner Owner Whitaker in withdrawing his Wood Memorial winner My Request stated that the race was a bit too close on the heels of the Derby Whitaker added that while his colt could be a starter he feels it advisable to pass up the Maryland fix ¬ ture and point the son of Requested for the Withers which is at one mile mileGasparilla Gasparilla Declared DeclaredGasparilla Gasparilla was declared to be ailing slightly and trainer Max Hirsch will rely solely upon King Ranchs Better Self in the mile and threesixteenths test Piet has started only once this season winning the sixfurlong Ral Parr and trainer Em mett Potts stated that he would not start the colt in such a race without first giving him a race over a distance of ground Wing Messenger was only a possibility all along and his absence will not come as a sur ¬ prise priseOthers Others still scheduled to face the Calu ¬ met duo are William L Branns Escadru W G Helis Salmagundi King Ranchs Better Self Sylvester W Labrot Jrs Bo vard and Cornelius V Whitneys tandem of Mount Marcy and Vulcans Forge ForgeWhile While Citation is on the grounds and has been brought on the track twice for slow gallops he has not been given a serious drill King Ranchs Better Self winner of last years East View and Saratoga Special and second to Citation over this track last fall in the Pimlico Futurity arrived this after ¬ noon from New York to fullfill his engage ¬ ment in the Preakness PreaknessIn In the absence of trainer Max Hirsch his son W J Buddy Hirsch supervised the unloading and quartered the crack threeyearold in the stall which had been bedded down early this morning Young Hirsch expressed complete satisfaction with the manner in which the colt slipped and unloaded unloadedBetter Better Self has started but three times this year In his seasonal debut he was victorious in the Paumonok Handicap Following that effort he was second to Escadru in an allowance race and third behind My Request and Mount Marcy in the Wood
