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Correlation Holds Jersey Favoritism Will Not Have Hasty Road As Rival This Week End as Nine Probables Are Listed By FRED GALIANI GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 26.— For a. time here this morning it looked as if the Preakness would have a re-running in the 0,000 Jersey Stakes here Saturday. Hasty Road, neck winner over the odds-on Correlation in the Pimlico classic, was the subject in question and strong reports had him coming here for the mile and an eighth event. But they proved to be nothing more than rumors. Allie Reuben, part owner of the strapping Hasty House Farm colt, was contacted at his Toledo home and put to rest the reports with a negative answer. The Preakness winner is at Belmont Park undergoing therapeutic treatments and will not be here to take on Correlation. That leaves Robert Lytles California horse bestriding the Jersey Stakes like a huge colossus. The son of Free America is a stout favorite to add the Jersey to his string of victories. Trainer Noble Threewitt ponied the horse this morning and will breeze him tomorrow. The Garden State course is not unknown to Correlation, as he finished second to Turn-to in last falls The Garden State. Following his performance here Saturday, the Lytle racer will be shipped to New York for the Belmont States and then he is slated to return to the coast. 1 Geegee Works Out While Correlation would appear to be a lock, hell have to run for the money. There will be enough opposition in quantity for him. Brookfield Farm will try him with I Geegee, a son of Brookf ield, — On the Double, who has won three races this year, including a section of the Delaware Valley Stakes. I Geegee breezed six furlongs in l:18y5 today. Moody Jolley is here with Claiborne Farms Limelight and Mrs. J. R. H. Thourons War of Roses has been drilling for the Jersey. The Tudor Minstrel colt stepped five furlongs in 1:01% this a. m. Due in some time today is Llangollen Farms Ordained. The latter won a six-furlong race at Belmont, closing with a rush to score by a nose. George Weckerle, who handles the horses of Max Hirsch in New Jersey, received the King Ranchs High Gun this morning. The latter was accompanied by On Your Own, winner of the Betsy Ross and a candidate for Mondays Colonial Handicap. High Gun finished third in both the Withers and the Wood and was fourth to Brisuet in the second half of "3 Delaware Valley. Definite Starters Charles Lawrences Opera Light and W. Partees Winning Count are definite starters from the local brigade. The former won a distance race here early in the week, while Johnny McDowell, trainer of Winning Count, says, "he will be hard to beat. He ran a good race in the Arkansas Derby and another one here. Well be there." Another addition to the field was filed this afternoon when Ty Shea was informed that Howard A. Jones For Free, a brown colt by Four Freedoms— Jean Stuart, would arrive for the race. His entry was hardly anything to cause trepidation in the ranks of the Correlation contingent. For Free won a mile and a sixteenth race at Pimlico for his last start, which was his eleventh of the year, and managed to enter the winners circle only once in a dozen outings as a juvenile. His best effort of the season was a second to Ring King in the Chesapeake Stakes. Dee Brooks, trainer for Hal Price Head-ley, contemplates starting Pinetum in the stake, borrowing from Arthur Godfrey to say the colt will go, "Lord Willin." These are regarded as definite starters, and there are still others who are pegged as possible. Trainer Tom Barry has Coastal Light, Night Baker and Errard King for the race, but the latter is most unlikely. He indicated today though that he will start the other pair as an entry. Another outside chance is the Maine Chance Farm duo of Jet Action and Black Metal. The former finished far back in the Preakness after winning his first two starts of the season. And finally Woodley Lanes Red Hannigan appears to have a chance of joining the starting lineup. A minimum field of nine is in prospect, with a possibility of a dozen at the maximum. Trainer Tommy Kelly, of the Mrs. Ada L. Rice Stable, stated that Ring King would not compete, while Charlie Coco, who had high hopes on Brass Ring, also yielded to reality off the colts last races here and decided against starting him.
