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Jamaica Spotlights Youthful Today welve to Contest TwoYearOldDash TwoYearOldDashThree Three Potential Champions Bold Ruler Spanish San EncoreVie for Favoritism FavoritismJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y May 1 A field of 12 juvenile colts and geldings including at least three potential champions has been named to dispute Wednesdays 44th running of the Youthful Stakes here If all 12 go postward this edition of the five furlong stakes will gross 17800 and net the winner 12375 12375Favoritism Favoritism is expected to be almost equally divided among WheaHey Stables Bold Ruler and Supernatural Brookmeade Stables Encore and Buchanan Stables Spanish San SanAll All four of these colts won their last starts but Bold Ruler has won his last two in style that has greatly impressed many horsemen The son of Nasrullah from the stakes winning Miss Disco will be ridden by Ted Atkinson In his last outing Bold Ruler only beat Mrs C Cos tanzos pace making Red Cadet by a length but did it with authority Red Cadet will be back again Wednesday with Jimmy Gombest in the saddle saddleSupernatural Supernatural won his only start the same afternoon that Bold Ruler made his winning debut here but was considerably j less imprsesive both to most observers and to Atkinson who rode both colts Atkinson will ride Bold Ruler Wednesday while Jimmy Nichols will be on Supernatural SupernaturalEncore Encore Gulfstream Juvenile Victor VictorEncore Encore won the Gulfstream Park Juve ¬ nile Stakes with a flourish in his last out ¬ ing and has trained cleverly at Jamaica since returning to Long Island Willie Hartack will come here to ride the chest ¬ nut colt coltSpanish Spanish San narrowly defeated the costly Double X after a slow start in the fastest juvenile race of the meeting last Saturday getting the five furlongs in 59 Though undoubtedly an exceptionally fast colt the brother to the consistent Spanish Queen is literally nothing to look at and may lack the apparent class of Bold Ruler and Encore EncoreBill Bill Boland will again ride Spanish San who will be the choice of the speed handi cappers There are two other recent winners in ithis Youthful Mrs Vernon G Cardys I Olympia P Q and Murcain Stables Prince I Killer Olympia P Q will again be ridden I by Hedley Woodhouse who scored with j him en a good track last out but has drawn the unfavorable outside post posi ¬ tion Jimmy Combest has been named for Prince Killer who carried a 7500 claim ¬ ing tag when winning his last as well as Red Cadet CadetThe The others in the Youthful are Mrs W WThorn Thorn Kissels Gavel Philip Godfreys GodfreysDodger Dodger J M Roeblings Wolf Badge Twin Twint t Oaks Stables Jolly Jack and C T Chen Chenerys erys North End EndLast Last years Youthful was won by the Floridabred Smooth Stride while Summer Tan captured the 1954 edition of the dash Other recent runnings have gone to such gooS colts as Battlefield Primate and Native Dancer
