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Federal Hill to Embark For Pimlico Track Today Trainer Believes Lussky Colt Has Good Chance in Preakness By JOE HIRSCH NEW YORK. N. Y.. May 8.— Clifford Lusskys Federal Hill will leave Louisville by van Thursday morning for Baltimore and will run in the 00,000 Preakness at Pimlico on May 8, trainer Milton Rieser reported by phone from Kentucky today. The son of Cosmic Bomb and Ariel Beauty, who finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby last Sturday after setting the pace for the first mile, is expected to arrive on Friday, according to Rieser. "My son Stanley is planning to fly up on Sunday." the veteran trainer observed, "and he will handle the colt for the Preakness. Jockey Bill Carstens will ride him, of course, and he is due in Baltimore in time to breeze Federal Hill on Tuesday. I dont think Ill have time to go to Baltimore. I have a lot of horses here getting ready to ship to Chicago and Ill probably stay with them." Rieser said that he and owner Lussky conferred last night in Louisville. Lussky. who has been hospitalized with a throat condition left everything up to his trainer, and Rieser noted that since the prospective field for the Preakness shapes up as a small one, he decided to give the second jewel of Continued on Page Eight Federal Hill to Embark For Pimlico Track Today Trainer Believes Lussky Colt Has Good Chance in Preakness Continued from Page One the Triple Crown for three-year-olds a whirl. "Federal Hill came out of the Derby in excellent condition," Rieser advised, "and he ran an excellent race for a mile and an eighth, was only a head off the pace with a furlong to go. The sharper turns at Pimlico and the shorter distance mile and three-sixteenths of the Preakness. should work in his favor. "Ill tell you something." Rieser continued, "if any of those horses try to run with him, theyll get beat. And if he should happen to catch mud, why hell be real tough. He hasnt caught his race track yet in one of those bis races and hes due." Federal Hill has run 10 times this season and won three races, including the Louisiana Derby, in which he equalled a track record of 1:4935 for the nine furlongs. During two seasons of competition he has earned 12,577. a good portion of which came from his place finish in last falls worlds richest race. The Garden State. A horse of unusual speed, he was also the early leader in the Flamingo and Florida Derby this winter before "running out of gas." Rieser said today that Federal Hill would run in either the Jersey Stakes at Garden i State on May 25 or the Chicagoan at Balmoral on June 8, after his race in the Preakness, if he comes back in good order. Both races are 0,000 added affairs, the Jersey Stakes at a mile and an eighth and the Chicagoan at a flat mile. Stanley Rieser in his early thirties, is a capable horseman in his own right and trains a small string through the Midwest. He saddled the entry of Lussky s Casting and Patrick Calhoun Jr.s Her Gem in the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs on Derby Day. As for the Preakness, which will be run for the eighty-first time, possible starters include Federal Hill, Bold Ruler and Iron Liege from the Derby field, and Roslyn Farms Inswept, Mis. Jules Schwartz Nah Hiss, Greentrees Cohoes and Woodland Farms High Sparkle.
