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Uncle Miltie Gallops Once Around Jamaica Race Track JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 26.J6seph J. Colandos Uncle Miltie appeared on the Jamaica race track this morning and galloped once around the strip. This is the colt whose young trainer, A. C. Colando, veterinarian son of the banker-owner, declared was still at the farm near Red Bank, N. J., and would stay there. Uncle Miltie looked much the same as he did when he was sent down to New Jersey for freshening after his disappointing races at Jamaica in the spring, in which he twice finished eighth after having zoomed into Kentucky Derby favoritism with a six-furlong score in 1:10%. The son of Heather Broom looked well bodily when racing badly and still does. His trainer stated yesterday that Uncle Miltie would not be seen under silks until the Saratoga meeting, but earlier in the day he also said that the colt had done considerable work on the training track at the farm and was not far from a race, so far as he could tell. Uncle Miltie was rated at the head of the Experimental Handicap by John B. Campbell on the strength of victories in the Champagne Stakes and Wakefield Handicap last fall. When he turned in a sensational effort on his first appearance, going out a mile in 1:37%, after easily defeating Battlefield, Nullify and Big Stretch, Campbells estimate of Uncle Miltie appeared fully justified. However, Uncle Miltie ran his first race on comparatively little training and did almost nothing in the mornings following his sensational debut. Whatever the reason, his subsequent races were dull in the extreme and he was withdrawn from the Derby after a series of contradictory statements by his owner and trainer.
