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Needles Needles Leaves Leaves Today Today for for Pimlico; Pimlico; Stroller Stroller Scores Scores Sportsmans Sportsmans Repeat Repeat Preakness May 19 Next Engagement Fabius, Count Chic and No Regrets Also Going East for Second of Triple Crown Races By JOE HIRSCH CHURCHHjL DOWNS, Louisville* Ky., May 7. — "On to Baltimore!" Needles, the D and H Stables whirlwind victor in Saturdays 82nd Kentucky Derby, entrains Tuesday for Pimlico, the foremost figure in the procession of his fellow contestants who leave historic Churchill Downs this week for a crack at the Preakness Stakes on May 19. Thus Needles becomes first Derby winner in three years to .seek racings famed Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Swaps, last year, and Determine, in 1954, headed back to their California headquarters immediately following their score in the "Run for the Roses." Should Needles succeed in his quest of the Preakness and then the Belmont Stakes on June 16, he would be the first Triple Crown winner since* Calumets mighty Citation in 1948 and only the ninth horse to accomplish this feat since the inception of racings first prize in 1875. Pintor Lea, Countermand Pull Up Bad A barn-to-bam survey in yesterdays humid warmth and this mornings steady rain revealed that four other Derby contestants will join Needles at Pimlico at various times this week. They are Calumets Fabius who" finished second on Saturday, Dino Lozzis Count Chic, who finished fourth, C. V. Whitneys Career Boy- who finished sixth, and W. E. Britts Continued on Page Six NEEDLES BEST RAGE: FONTAINE— Needles, the 1956 Kentucky Derby winner, is shown winning the Hopeful at Saratoga last summer by three and one-half lengths over Career Boy, with Jean Baptiste third and NooFsaga fourth. Trainer , Hugh Fontaine said he believes the Hopeful was Needles best race, even battering his smashing performance, in Saturdays Derby at Churchill Downs. — : j - - Needles Heads East Today for Pimlko And Engagement in Preakness May 19 Fabius, Count Chic and No i Regrets Also Going East for Second of Triple Crown Races Continued fiom Page One No Regrets, who was seventh. Of the nine horses whose interests have indicated they will not go in the Preakness, th most significant are Calumets Pintor Lea and Brandywine Stables Countermand, both of whom pulled up bad after the race. Three Derbyites— Besomer, Jean Baptiste and High King — are on the doubtful list. Others not likely to go in the Preakness are C. V. Whitneys Head Man, Gregory and Maggios Ben A. Jones, Helen W. Kelloggs Come On RedL Rex Ellsworths ] Terrang, Hasty House Farms Black Emperor, T. Alie Grissoms Invalidate and Reverie Knolls King o Swords. At the champions barn, trainer Hugh Fontaine reported this morning to depart- j ing owners Jack Dudley and Bonnie Heath that Needles was as fresh as a daisy and would entrain with: seven other D and H horses for Baltimore Tuesday. On Sunday, Fontaine sat in his tack room and played host to a dozen or more turf writers, answering questions graciously and displaying the son of Ponder and Noodle Soup at request. "No," Fontaine said inanswer to a query, "I dont think the Derby was his best race. I liked his Hopeful at Saratoga in which he beat Career Boy by three and one-half lengths. He was laughing all the way. The track suited him and he ran with his ears pricked. In the Florida Derby he didnt seem to care for the track and he was mad. He ran like -he was mad yesterday too. 1 "When did I think we had it? Well there was nothing in front of him entering the stretch, for which I was glad. I guess at the I sixteenth pole, when he was moving at Fabius real fast on the outside, then I knew I wed win. The Triple Crown? Well take em one at a time." Fabius Improving, Jones Says Ben Jones, at the Calumet barn, revealed that Fabius would ship to Baltimore . for t the Preakness .today along with the fillies Princess Turia and Beyond, wholl go to New York for the Acorn at Belmont on May 19. Jones,,, whose son Jimmy left for Garden State, where Calumets -main division is stabled, immediately after the Derby, noted that Pintor Leas knee was giving him some trouble upon his return from his Derby outing and that he Would be sent to the barn in Lexington for a rest, probably returning to the races in late summer. "Fabius came out of the Derby in good condition," said Jones. .T thought he, lan his best race and he seems to be improving all the time. As for Pintor Lea, he was going two jumps for one around the turn Continued on Page forty-Three v Needles Leaves Toddy For East and Preakness Pimlicos May 19 Race Next Engagement for Derby Winner Continued from Page Six and I thought for a moment he might take the whole thing. But I dont know. Did you see that Needles in the paddock? He looked as big as liwe and he moved like old Whirl-away. Hes got the power to run over the others; hes . got more to him." Syl Veitch, the C. V. Whitney trainer, was out to the barn early Sunday morning, then left for the Whitney farm near Lexington. Veitchs veteran foreman Frank Shelton, who has been with the outfit for 16 years, revealed that Career Boy and Head Man both came out of the Derby in good order -but with a little less money than we hoped for." Shelton thought that Head Man ran a fine race to the head of the stretch, and indicated as Veitch had done earlier in the week, that the gray son of Eight Thirty might be reserved for races other than the classics. Both colts were to leave Louisville today for New York, with Career Boy going- to Baltimore in time for the Preakness. Like the majority of other horsemen, Shelton had high praise for Needles, and the way he won, but was also of the opinion that Career Boy didnt have the best of racing luck on the far turn and might have been a lot closer under other circumstances. Ship Count Chic Wednesday. • At Count Chics barn, stable sources indicated that the Count Speed colt came out of the race in fit condition "and would leave for Baltimore Wednesday. Owner Dino Lozzi was to depart for Seattle today and is making plans to fly to Baltimore for the Preakness. Dick Waggoner, the Louisville boy who trains No Regrets for rancher-oil man W. E. Britt, said this morning that his horse ran "a very encouraging race and would ship to Baltimore on Tuesday." Brandywines Countermand left for New York today with trainer Buddy Raines ! deeply disappointed- at the condition in ! which his colt pulled up. "Both feet are hot" Raines said Sunday, "and he seems to be favoring .the right front foot. I put him I up in poultice and well try to have him J ready for the- Belmont. Fll tell you one j thing, hes a much better" three-year-old . than he showed, and I can almost guar-i ahtee that hell i:un faster than they did] on Saturday before the season is over. He ; must have been hurting bad on the far, turn because he kept trying to "get out."] The dark horse of the Derby, dcjiitel , his chestnut coloring, Come 6n R d. was ; not nominated for the Preakness. Trainer ] . :Odie Clelland, racings answer to John j Foster Dulles, left by plane for Nashville, 1 Tenn. and New York after the Derby, with plans to return here on Friday. Stable sources indicate that Come On Red, ss. Free France colt, will remain on the grounds until . the conclusion of the meeting, and accompany one of the many divisions of Clellands public stable either to Delaware Park or to New York, with the former the most likely destination. Come On Red,, who had some hair clipped off his right hind leg in the race, is slated to go in the American Derby on the grass at Washington Park later this summer and also in Arlington Parks Equipoise Mile. Hes considered a superior off-track horse but ran like the wind on Saturday over a lightning fast strip, bringing home 2,500 for his owner, Helen Kellogg, member of the famed breakfast food family. Terrang and Swaps left by plane for the West Coast, this morning under the supervision of owner Rex Ellsworths brother Reed. Both horses will go to Hollywood Park and. will be seen under silks at that session, Swaps probably in the 00,000 Califomian on May 26, a race he won last year, and Terrang possibly in the 5,000 Will Rogers on May 30, at a flat mile. Trainer Meshach Tenney and Rex Ellsworth flew to their ranch at Chino following the Derby. At the Hasty House barn it was revealed that Black Emperor came out of the Derby with a nick on his left front foot, which has been put up in poultice but hasnt j filled. His connections were unimpressed j with his race and he is likely to accom-I pany the stable to Chicago when ft ships ; in two moves, later this week and late next week. Neither Alie Grissoms Invali.-| date .nor* Reverie Knolls King d Swords, j who finished fifteenth and ninth, respec-i tively, in the Derby, were nominated for j the Preakness and nothing they did Satur-j day would seem to indicate that supplementary nominations which close tonight, were in order. Elmer Kalensky sent the Gregory «fc ; Maggio Stable, including Ben A. Jones, to , Chicago yesterday. Since Ben A. Jones finished fifteenth, on Saturday, following a brief show of early foot, this was taken in local circles to point to his defection jfrom" the ranks of Preakness starters. Colin MacLeod Jr., part-owner and j trainer of Besomer, said this morning that | his colt will ship to Maryland -today on the- same train with Calumets Fabius but I "has only a slim chance" starting in the Preakness. Besomer finished fourteenth , Saturday. Lloyd Tate, who trains Jean |Baptiste for his wife, planned to send his ! colt back to New York today in the com-I rany of Buddy Raines Cbuntermahd, and likewise indicated that he Would, be % doubtful starter in the Preakness. - • -
