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GEN DUKE center with exercise rider Joe Swartz up flanked by Ben A Jones left and H A Jimmy Jones Calumet Can Dictate Derby Pattern Speed and Stamina Apparent in Entry EntryGen Gen Duke and Iron Liege Afford Upper Hand Jones Silent on Racing Strategy StrategyCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 If two heads are better than one in attempting to solve a problem then two horses are infinitely better than one in attempting to win a race like the Kentucky Derby particularly when the participants involved are a pair of hard runners like Calumets likely favorites tomorrow Gen Duke and Iron Liege LiegeA A trainer with a powerful entry like this has an opportunity to help mold the strategy of the race to his liking usually by sending one horse out on a killing pace to tire the opposition and reserving the other for the crucial stretch run runCalumets Calumets Jimmy Jones worked along these lines with great success in Florida this past winter and while naturally he refuses to tip his hand for tomorrow it may reasonably be expected that he will proceed in this general direction for Amer ¬ icas premier turf prize prizeImmense Immense Material With Which to Work WorkFortunately Fortunately for Jones he has immense material with which to work Iron Liege up to now his pacesetter would be the No 1 colt for most of this countrys leading stables The son of Bull Lea and Iron Maiden she by War Admiral has earned only some 55000 in two seasons of cam ¬ paigning but has been racing with the best and as noted above has frequently been sacrificed on the altar of strategy In his last eight starts for instance he has been no worse than third and in 16 outings thus far in his career he has been in the money on 12 occasions A heavier more muscular colt than Gen GenDuke Duke Iron Liege came to the races in Chicago last summer injured himself by bysticking sticking a foot through tliCsWebbing of his hisstall stall at Belmont early in the fall fallJones Jones was forced to rush him a bit to get him ready for the Futurity in which he finished fourth and Iron Liege concluded his campaign with a poor showing in The Garden State won by his stablemate Bar bizon This winter he was third in the Everglades third in the Flamingo and third in the Florida Derby in all three cases finishing behind Gen Duke and BcJld Ruler RulerRecently Recently at Keeneland in a special threehorse betless exhibition he demon ¬ strated again that he had plenty of class in his own right by racing seven furlongs in recordequalling time 122 in front of Cain Hoys OneEyed King and Gen Duke the latter merely out to raise a sweat sweatOut Out of Mare Wistful WistfulAs As for Geri Duke this could be a really great colt perhaps not a Citation but certainly one of the top sophomores to come along in recent seasons Hes by the great Bull Lea from Calumets brilliant mare Wistful who earned 213000 during the course of her distinguished career In nine starts this year hes won four been second four times and third once and has accumulated some 140000 over the past two seasons seasonsGen Gen Duke like most of Calumets good ones was raced sparingly at two breaking his maiden at Washington Park on August 2 and finishing third in Chicago three weeks later He was second to Bold Ruler in the Bahamas this winter beat the Wheatley ace in the Everglades lost to Bold Ruler by a neck in the Flamingo won the Fountain of Youth and then came back to trounce Bold Ruler in the Florida Derby The rivalry between these two colts bright ¬ ened the entire Florida season and should it continue could make the Triple Crown events this year particularly appealing appealingGen Gen Duke is not a big horse although hes made pleasingly enough His stride is not nearly as long as Bold Rulers rather he steps quickly and alertly Hes fast enough on his feet to get out of trouble has good heart when challenged and is an intelligent horse according to his rider Bill Hartack Amiable of disposition he takes kindly to rating and Hartack ob ¬ serves that he made several moves with the colt to win the Florida Derby DerbyGen Gen Duke like the others has not been a mile and a quarter yet and unlike some of the others has not yet carried the Derby weight of 126 pounds over a distance of ground Yet Jimmy Jones seems confident that he will be able to get the job done and that should be good enough for a lot of folks JOE HIRSCH
