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Kahlbaum Will Strive to Climax Highly Successful Halter Career With Jampol Claimed Latter for ,500, Now Has Him Among Top Ranking Members of Division By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 16. — Max Kahlbaum, a 52 -year-old German immigrant, will endeavor to climax a highly successful career as a member of the halter - brigade on Saturday when he tightens the girth on his ,000 claiming acquisition, Jampol, in Saturdays seventy-sixth running of the famed 5,000 Preakness. His Thumbs Up gelding moved into the limelight for the mile and three-sixteenths classic when he charged to victory in Mondays Preakness Prep, with such highly regarded sophomores as Pintor, Handsome Teddy and Arroz finishing behind him. Jampol, who had raced only five times and earned just 25 prior to being taken by Kahlbaum, concluded his two-year-old campaign with four victories, five seconds and four thirds in 20 engagements. His bank account at the end of the term read 1,725 and the record books revealed that he had impressed as a fellow likely to succeed with a convincing victory in a division of Bowies Endurance Handicap. The winner of Mondays "preview" will parade postward in the Preakness boasting a second to Blue Man in a division of the Flamingo States at Hialeah, as a runner-up performance in back of Handsome Teddy in Laurels Chesapeake Stakes. He will really be striving to make good in society when he takes on the cream of the crop here Saturday. One might be inclined to attribute Kahl-baums success with Jampol as purely a turn of luck, but lets glance through the past performances of this owner-trainer. Back several years we find that Kahlbaum claimed Risk A Whirl for ,500 and proceeded to condition the Whirlaway miss through 2,000 in earnings. He was, however, unfortunate to lose this mare through a training mishap this past winter while preparing her for an engagement in Hia-leahs Black Helen Handicap. Kahlbaum owned his first horse in 1937, acquiring a cheap plater for the large sum* of 50. He won at first asking for Kahlbaum at Rockingham Park, then was shipped to Charles Town, where he was destroyed following a mishap. Having been placed temporarily out of business, Kahlbaum went back to rubbing horses, being employed at various times by Horatio A. Luro, Foxcatcher Farm, Bill Martin and Ben Jones, being with the latter during Whirlaways year. Having acquired another "Bankroll," the popular German purchased the plater Sun-over from Charlie Shaw for 00, then back to Rockingham Park, where the "stable" was a winner. He then shipped to Florida, only to have the races called off due to existing conditions. Kahlbaum felt himself quite lucky to dispose of Sunover to a Puerto Rican for 00. Asked If there was any special rule he used in deciding just what thoroughbreds he should claim, Kahlbaum replied "yes, I never claim them when theyre five-year-olds or over. Somtimes Ive missed some good claims that way, but, in the long run, I feel that the rule is a good one."
