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I Uncle Mi I tie Returned To Jamaica From Farm Whereabouts of Colandos Colt Becomes Minor Mystery for Time BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 25. — The whereabouts of Joseph J. Colandos Uncle Miltie has become a minor mystery. The watchman on the New York Boulevard gate at Jamaica reported that the three-year-rold colt arrived there by van from Lyncroft, near Red Bank, N. J., at 8:00 p. m. last night. A rule instituted this year at Jamaica requires that all horses entering the track must be identified by name. This morning, trainer A. C. Colando was asked, by Daily Racing Form docker Eddie Hodgson in track superintendent Dick Stricklands office at Jamaica how the colt had shipped from the farm. Hodgson reports that young Colando told him, "He always vans well," added that he had done a lot of work at Red Bank and would be galloped at Jamaica tomorrow morning. Later in the*"day, Colando told another newspaperman in the presence of witnesses that Uncle Miltie was still on the farm and would not race before the Saratoga meeting. Following this statement, the Jamaica watchman was contacted by phone and . declared that Uncle Miltie had passed through his gates last night. Effortalttb reach the elder Colando by telephone were unsuccessful. The Pinkerton staff later in the day reported that Uncle Miltie had arrived at Jamaica yesterday evening. A few minutes later Frank Bamberra, Stricklands assistant, visited the barn and reported that Uncle Miltie was, indeed, quartered in barn 17 at Jamaica. The younger Colando had left Belmont Park for Jamaica by this time, but James Roach, the accurate and dependable representative of the New York Times, said again that Uncle Milties trainer had told him that the colt was still in New Jersey [and had added, "I dont know how you newspapermen get such stories."
