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►— ■ — PROMISED LAND — Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Preakness candidate goes in todays feature race at Jamaica. A- — Preakness Hopefuls In Jamaica Feature Big Paddy, Promised Land, Nah Hiss and Lucky Dip Vie; Bold Rulers Brother in Bow JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 9.— The richest race on tomorrows program here at beautiful Jamaica, and In some respects the most interesting, is the Sunken Meadow Purse, a ,500 test for three-year-olds at a mile and one furlongs that will be run as the fourth event. The nominally featured seventh race is the ,000 Sunnyside Purse, also for three-year-olds, but at six furlongs. Four of the eight races on the program are for three-year-olds exclusively. The Sunken Meadow has attracted only four sophomores, but all four are possibilities for the Preakness on May 18. A. J. Ryans Big Paddy and Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Promised Land, having won stakes, carry 119 pounds each, conceding three to Mrs. Jules Schwartz Nah Hiss and six to Cain Hoy Stables Lucky Dip." Favoritism is expected to go to Promised Land, who has been racing against better company, with strong support for Big Paddy, easy winner over Jockos Walk, Lord Chumley and a couple of others at a mile and one-sixteenth here on April 5. That race was on a sloppy track, but the Bull Dandy colt showed that he could handle a fast track by winning a mile event at Lincoln Downs, from which he was disqualified when a 3-to-10 favorite on March 26. Eddie Arcaro is slated to ride the New Englander, who last fall won the James H. Connors Memorial at Gansett at a mile and one-sixteenth, as well as three overnight events in a light campaign of six starts. He has been carefully managed by trainer John Shugrue. Atkinson Rides Promised Land Promised Land, who will be ridden by Ted Atkinson, won the Governors Gold Cup at Bowie in March, then finished second to Mister Jive in the Gotham Stakes here, but beat Mister Jive when finishing third behind Bold Ruler and Gallant Man ■ in the record-breaking Wood Memorial. However, work -watchers are not impressed with the looks or action of the gray son of Palestinian in recent days. Nah Hiss, who will have the services of Bobby Ussery, is being tested for class for the first time and should he "win off" will | definitely be sent to Pimlico for the Preakness. The son of Call Over from the popular plater, Waymark, has won his last two starts here in encouraging style, finishing both mile and one-sixteenth events in style suggesting that he wants to "go on." Lucky Dip has sometimes given the impression of being a good colt, but has either been unlucky or incapable when asked to beat first-rate three-year-olds. In his last two outings, he won a six-furlong sprint at Keeneland, then was beaten almost a sixteenth of a mile in the Blue Grass Stakes. Pete Anderson is slated to ride at 113 pounds if he has the strength to get out of the hot box after melting down to that weight. An interesting sidelight to tomorrows program is the promised debut of Wheat-ley Stables Nasco, a full brother to Bold Ruler, in the third event. Ted Atkinson, who rode Bold Ruler in his first three winning races and in his sensational Bahamas Handicap score at Hialeah, will "educate this son of Nasrullah — Miss Disco, who is also a full brother to the mediocre Independence, the windy Explorer and half brother to Hill Rose, who was hardly an American beauty. He has been training well for Mr. Fitz. The Sunnyside has attracted such speedy three-year-olds as Mrs. C. Ulrick Bays Slaipner, who last out defeated four of those he is slated to meet tomorrow. Samuel Finkelsteins Out to Win, Mrs. C. Cos-tanzos Red Cadet, Mrs. Adele L. Rands Double X. and Ogden Phipps Retreat finished from two to almost 10 lengths in arrears in that race. The chief threat to Slaipner may be Buchanan Farms Spanish San, who followed a victory here by tiring badly in the Jamaica Handicap won by Pertshire.
