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Uncle Miltie Tops Omnibus Line-Up Meets Six Rivals At Monmouth Park Colando Colt Won Last Out At pelmont; Combat Boots, Three Rings, Joey Boy Foes By W. C. PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J„ June 17. — The one mile and a furlong Omnibus Handicap, an event that was inaugurated over the old Monmouth Park strip back in 1882, tomorrow comes up for decision over the ultra-new Monmouth Park course with a small band of seven named to compete for a purse of 5,000 added. J. J. Colando s Uncle Miltie is the top man in the line-up for this nineteenth running with 117 pounds. He is matched against Mrs. E. L. Hopkins Three Rings 114, Putnam Stables Combat Boots 111. Joseph Gavegnanos Joey Boy 111, Paul Kelleys Sea Grass 106, L. G. Robinsons Chat Noir II. 106, and M. R. Schneiders Bay Count 104. Colandos home-bred Uncle Miltie first gained prominence at Monmouth Park in his juvenile year. A great deal of sentiment will be attached to his presence, while the four -year-old son of Heather Broom — Twink-Mo will be attempting to regain his one-time standing as one of the top racers in the country. Jockey Ira "Babe" Hanford, a smooth boy in rating a horse, will be in the irons, and the smallness of the field should offer no hindrance when he starts to roll up from behind. Beat Saxony by Neck Uncle Miltie has started only twice this year. He finished fourth to Arise in his first try at Belmont on June 3. Meeting slightly lesser company and apparently tightened to keen fitness, Uncle Miltie returned a week ago at Belmont to win the Turf and Field Classified Handicap at one mile under 122 pounds. He came from behind in his usual manner, and wore down Saxony to score by a neck while covering the distance over a good track in 1:37 Vs. Last season Uncle Miltie was the top money winner at Monmouth Park. Three Rings, one of the steadiest handicap horses in the country for the past several seasons and the leading money -winner here in 1949, appears to have an excellent chance to take his third purse of the season in this test. The seven-year-old Blue Larkspur gelding, who demands a fast track and is at his best running with the pace, acts and looks good in the morning. He wanted no part of the "off" track in the Brandywine Handicap at Delaware Park two weeks ago, and there was just too much early speed for him to show his best in the Jersey Handicap at Garden State Park. He will be ridden by Rocco Sisto, who is a familiar pilot. Hedley Woodhouse will be up on Combat Boots, who has been going strong in the overnight handicaps at New York and will be one of the favorites. The Our Boots colt won his last two easily, and carried as much as 126 pounds, which makes his burden tomorrow look small. He has defeated such shifty rivals as Alerted and Ted M. this season, while also winning a race in which Three Rings was far back at Jamaica early in April. Combat Boots has a record of 12 starts and five victories this year. Joey Boy has been a strong man here in New Jersey this spring. He finished third to Alerted and Crafty Admiral in the Thomas J. Healey Handicap and was also third to Spartan Valor and Call Over in the Valley Forge. In between he won an allowance race and comes up to this fixture from a triumph in the Brandywine at Delaware. Fernando Fernandez will be in the saddle, as usual.
