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JOCKEY EUGENIC RODRIGUEZ Guided Jampol to his winning per ¬ formance in the Preakness Prep Eight Probables for Preakness Already on Scene at Pimlico Withers Victor Armageddon Checks In Gushing Oil and Lord Priam Are En Route RoutePIMLICO PIMLICO Baltimore Md May 12 The field for Saturdays 75000 Preakness sec ¬ ond of the American Triple Crown events began to assume somewhat more definite shape today The arrival of Harry Guggen ¬ heims Withers winner Armageddon brought the list of probables already on the grounds of the Maryland Jockey Club to eight with a possibility there will be five or six others within the next 48 hours Gerald Stricklands Lord Priam is for instance re ¬ ported en route to the Hilltop S E Wilson Jrs Gushing Oil is expected tomorrow and with their appearance the group on the scene of this seventysixth Run for the BlackEyed Susans will be comprised of Blue Man Roaring Bull Suggested Sub Fleet Arroz Jampol Handsome Teddy Gushing Oil Armageddon and the son of Priam n Following Armageddon and Lord Priam from New York may be Count Flame Charlie McAdam One Count Primate and possibly Cold Command and Whither There are a total of 16 in that group groupArmageddon Armageddon won a place in the starting field when the one eyed son of Alsab emulated his sire in last weekends mile event and many feel that he has a splendid chance of duplicating his sires success also in the Preakness But Dixianas Sub Fleet an invader from the Midwest continues to be generally regarded here on the scene of the MJC classic as the logical favorite Meanwhile four of the candidates Arroz Handsome Teddy Jampol and Roaring Bull were to meet in the gumbo this after ¬ noon in the nine furlongs of the 10000 Preakness Prep PrepSub Sub Fleet Works in Slop SlopSub Sub Fleet was on the course this morning and was the only one of the Preakness candidates to do anything noteworthy Trainer Jack Hodgins sent him five fur ¬ longs through the slop unaccompanied in 104 The plucky Count Fleet colt worked well out from the rail was going handily and Hodgins declared I never had a horse do any better than he had this spring Of the possibility the Preakness going may be off he said I do not care if it snows Hodgins incidentally has arranged to send Charles T Fishers lively homebred on to Long Island for the Belmont States follow ¬ ing Saturdays mile and threesixteenths threesixteenthsTrainer Trainer Woody Stephens of Arthur Abbotts stretchrunning Blue Man motored down from New York yesterday and plans to work the trim brown son of Blue Swords six furlongs tomorrow morning He seems to feel that the Flamingo and Experimental No 2 winner was encompassed all the hard work necessary to be thoroughly fit what with racing and training several months monthsGushing Gushing Oil winner of the Louisiana and Arkansas Derbys and the Blue Grass Stakes was reported to have come out of the Downs event with a stone bruise He worked well Saturday morning at the Louisville course however Trainer Whitey Jansen flew here with the chestnut son of Easy Mon who is to be ridden by Ken Church Close observers have the impression wet Preak ¬ ness going would enhance Gushing Oils chances in the sense it would be somewhat of a handicap to several of his rivals He also is expected to fancy the shorter mile and threesixteenths of this stake stakeQuestion Question of Rider RiderThe The success of Armageddon and the de ¬ cision to start him for the Preakness poses a question of a rider for Arroz Ray York has been handling both and is to boot the Cain Hoy colt in the local headliner Eddie Arcaro is to have the mount on One Count runnerup to Armageddon in the Withers Steve Brooks will ride Sub Fleet with Dar rell Madden ori Handsome Teddy Dave Gorman on One Count Sam Boulmetis on Charlie McAdam and Conn McCreary on Blue Man ManIn In the event 12 actually face starter Eddie Blind in the Preakness the race this year will gross 114820 The winners share will depend upon whether this is a supple ¬ mental candidate or one of the original nominees Starters from among the original candidates pay 135 in nominations and 750 to run supplementary starters a 2250 eligibilty fee and 750 to appear in the race raceThe The Preakness Prep this afternoon stirred more interest in the time honored stake and both the Stevens caterers and the Maryland Jockey Club staff were in the throes of trying to do the mathematically impossible As in past springs the inner field will be thrown open to the patrons and will relieve some of the congestion on the stand side of th stretch i tke wxeather is favorable The tote facilities behind the innerfield odds board will serve those who prefer to watch fhe race from that area areaHill Hill Gails deflection from the Preakness probables seems to have had the effect of creating greater interest in the race if any ¬ thing for some had imagined he would make a formality of it These now see it as ably more open betting race
