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Myrtles Jet Has Seven To Outrun in Correction Concedes Weight to High Voltage, Sorceress, Searching at Jamaica By BOB HORWOOD JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 8.— Maine Chance Farms speedy Myrtles Jet heads a field of eight fillies and mares in Wednesdays 17th running of the Correction Handicap at six furlongs. The daughter of Jet Pilot from the brilliant Myrtle Charm has been assigned 124 pounds, two more than she carried successfully in the Colonial Handicap at Garden State the Saturday before last and most of this burden will again be Walter "Mousey" Blum. If all eight go postward, as is likely, this edition of the Correction will gross 2,560 and net the winner 5,300. Incidentally, the Correction has been reduced in added money this year from 5,000 to 0,000, but the class of the field doesnt seem to have suffered. • The chief opposition to Myrtles Jet Continued on Page Forty -Thre* Myrtles Jet Has Seven To Outrun in Correction Concedes Weight to High Voltage, Sorceress, Searching at Jamaica Continued from Page One tomorrow appears to be, in order of weights, Wheatley Stables High Voltage, "120; Brookmeade Stables Gandharva, 119, and Reginald N. Websters Sorceress, 114 pounds. Gandharva finished a good second to Myrtiles Jet in the Colonial after setting a suicidal pace and adds one pound to her rivals two. Bill Boland will ride Preston Burchs charge and may prove slightly less impetuous than Willie Har-tack. Sorceress turned in an impressive performance for her first outing of the year last week when she captured the Isabella Purse at six furlongs by three lengths over High Voltage in a creditable 1:11%, closing with a powerful rush on the extreme outside after breaking in a tangle. The daughter of Slide Rule picks up three pounds while High Voltage drops two, but the five-pound shift hardly seems enough to reverse this verdict. Sorceress was picking up where she left off last fall, having won her last start here in 1955. Eric Guerin will ride Sorceress while Ted Atkinson will again be on High Voltage, who seems to have become moody after performing brilliantly at two and three. Nelson I. Asiels Tarquilla, 104 pounds and Sidney Cole, finished fourth behind Sorceress last week, but was rushed into the lead after a sluggish start and is eligible to improve. She drops a substantial eight pounds since that race. The Correction field is completed by George D. Wideners- stretch-running Rare Treat, 117; Mrs. .Ethel D. Jacobs Searching, 120, and Meyer J. Kaplans Up Betimes, 110 pounds. Rare Treat can sprint as wellies stay when in her best form and won her last start here at a mile and one-sixteenth on April 24, with High Voltage up the track. "Peejay" Bailey will again be in the irons. Searching could finish no better than sixth in the Colonial Cap behind Myrtles Jet, but has done better. Conn McCreary will ride the Ogden Phipps cast-off. Up Betimes is another cast-off with good races to her credit, having been claimed last year from Alfred G. Vanderbilt. She won her last start here in 1:12 for the six panels and will again be ridden by Hedley Woodhouse.
