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- I I I I I I I I | i I 1 1 I I j I 1 I 1 I i 1 I 1 I | I I j J I I J j j I I I ■ J ♦ a a n a •■ - i —————— ————— —- ————— i w ■ggi HI iBiHpiy Bk **B I ■ iiili Mi JmmWandmgm Pf m ilflllllflnM - - Three Rings, Palestinian Vie In Jamaica Allowance Offering | J 1 , 5 ■ " , ; j r | x | b . i ; i i i ; Handicap Stars to Use Mile J ♦ And Sixteenth Event as Prep For 0,000 Gallant Fox JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 3.— As a a tune-up for the 0,000 Gallant Fox Handi- cap at this track a week from Saturday, a half-dozen good routers will come out tomorrow in the mile and a sixteenth Vic-l torian Purse, sixth event on the after-• noons card at Jamaica and feature of an otherwise drab off-day program. The Vic-r torian is an allowance race, but the weights to be carried may not vary too much from n those that would have been assigned by secretary John Campbell had this been a handicap. As it is, Three Rings and Pales-s tinian share the top burden of 120 pounds, •■ while the other starters in this small but select field are Lights Up. 117; Rock Span, - 113; Lone Eagle, 113, and Mucho Mas, 108. Our private guess is that, if anyone is fa- vored by the conditions of the Victorian, it is the top weights. Three Rings and Palestinian, at their best, are as fine handicap horses as the American turf can now boast. It is true that each has his own limitations, but, judged on their best races, this is a pair for which the discriminating follower of the sport may well be grateful. Three Rings i must have a fast strip over which to run, and Mrs. Evelyn L. Hopkins Blue Larkspur gelding cannot endure any rough treatment ■ during the progress of a race. As for I Isidore Biebers Palestinian, this chestnut Sun Again stallion is chronically unsound, but, over the years, trainer Hirsch Jacobs 3 * has accomplished wonders with him, de- . t spite the faulty underpinning. Hopkins Ace Training Well t On the sidelines since the Widener r I Handicap at Hialeah last winter — a race ; e that Three Rings would have won had he ; £ not been bothered on the first turn — Mrs. . 1 Hopkins champion has been training f f steadily for an extensive spring and summer campaign. It is reported that trainer • 1 Willie Knapp is highly pleased with his c charges present condition, and it will I e cause little or no surprise if Three Rings » c shows the way tomorrow from end to end. . v Hedley Woodhouse. as usual, will have the i "V mount. t After a foray at last falls Hollywood [ t Park meeting, diiring which he finished a s brilliant second in Noors Gold Cup, Pales- t tinian was given a four-month rest. He ! a returned to the wars last Saturday in the i p Grey Lag Handicap here at Jamaica and was assigned 125 pounds, one less than the c top weight, Greek Ship. Studied in the F paddock before the race, Palestinian did t: not look ready for a top effort that day, 1 nor was he ever conspicuous during the p running of the Grey Lag, finishing seventh V and beaten some seven lengths for it all. tl That outing will have done him good, but | I is is ■ I MRS. EVELYN L. HOPKINS— Owner of Three Rings. c y l t f i v c s t i * I c 5 a . c j £ t to 3 t I * [ c 5 P ; , i t 1« t; I S I " in Q S si i o: of 3 * . t t r I ; e ; £ . 1 f f • 1 c I e » c . v i "V t [ t s t ! a i p c F t: 1 p V tl | I is is it is questionable whether he is yet ready to meet a foe of Three Rings caliber. If Gustave Rings Lone Eagle, entered today in the Naturalist Purse, passes up that event for tomorrows Victorian, the ex- Britisher will still be in deep water. A good enough colt to have finished third in the St. Leger, Lone Eagle, now a five-year-old, has shown hardly a trace of his European form on this side of the water. George D. Widener s Lights Up won the Travers at Saratoga last August and was one of the better three-year-olds in a gen- eration that may have included a couple of great ones. Like Three Rings, Lights Up will be making his re-entry in tomorrows Victorian. Trainer Bert Mulholland has all the Widener horses in fine shape now, and this four-year-old son of Eight Thirty is sure to go well. Last season, he was about the equal of Mrs. Andy Schuttingers Ferd, and if Ferd were starting here with 117 pounds he would go to the post a favorite. The choice in a recent handicap that in- eluded Steel Blue and American Glory, Rock Span could finish no better than third to this pair. The Colando colt has a lot of speed and he will not be far off the pace during the running of the Victorian Whether he can cope with the top ones in the stretch is another matter. Mucho Mas a high-class plater.
