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Bold Ruler Meets Inswept and Convoy In Betless Preakness Prep on Monday i . J j i ] y . Ci Wheatley Stable Colt Will Run With Blinkers; Breeze Iron Liege and Gen. Duke By CHARLES HATTON PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 11.— Connections of the Preakness aspirants l were rallying their forces on the Hilltop i this overcast morning. Wheatley Stables ; Bold Ruler arrived after an uneventful van , , junket from his Aqueduct headquarters and promptly reduced Mondays ,000 Preakness Prep of a mile and a sixteenth to a 1 betless setting-up exercise. Only the Roslyn Farms Chesapeake winner Inswept and Mrs. Janon Fisher Jr.s . . Convoy were named to oppose Mrs. Phipps colt, who neglected to "run his race" when fourth in the Kentucky Derby and goes I Monday equipped with blinkers. No rider was named for the opinionated son of Nas-rullah. but it is expected jockey Eddie Ar-caro will have the mount both in the Prep l i ; , , 1 . . I ♦ — — . __ - and next Saturdays 00,000 second lap of the American Triple Crown. Trainer Jimmy Jones of the formidable Calumet Farm motored over from Garden * State, enlivening the mornings training hours for a covey of railbirds when he j breezed the Derby winner Iron Liege and J his injured stablemate, Gen. Duke. The going was fast and Iron Liege skipped a casual three furlongs in :41%. Clockers tabbed the blocky, little "Duke" the same distance, handily in :37%. It was s the first move of a fast nature for either r colt since they arrived here by train from i Louisville on Wednesday. They were handled ■ by their regular exercise boys. Jones was pleased with the confident t manner in which Gen. Duke handled him-, - self on his bruised left fore foot, but added 1 that he is a possibility rather than a prob-. - able for the 81st Preakness. "I probably will 1 not be sure all week," he said. A great deal naturally depends on how r Continued on Page Eleven ■ r" GEN. DUKE — The Calumet Farm colt worked a handy three furlongs in :372/5 at Pimlico on Saturday. Bold Ruler Meets Inswept and Convoy In Betless Preakness Prep on Monday i 1 1 ; ■ 1 ■ 1 . 1 Wheatley Stable Colt Will J ► Run With Blinkers; Breeze Iron Liege and Gen. Duke Continued from Page One the colt responds, and in some degree on how Iron Liege comes up to his engagement. Iron Liege got a new pair of shoes this morning, with the felt removed from his hooves in front. Jones explained here is* no jar to the Pimlico surface. Dr. R. D. Coneley, of Lima, Pa., who is practicing at Garden State, was called in by the Calumet trainer to check out Gen. Dukes hoof after his breeze. The calipers were applied and he was turned this way and that. The hoof was cold and he could turn on a dime" without showing a trace of discomfort from the injury. Coneley said the examination was satisfactory and approved the measures Jones is taking to protect the hoof and forward the colts recovery. Jones added the real test would come when and if he "cracked down" on the Florida Derby record breaker in a serious extended trial. Thursday he had thought it "at least 100 to 1 Gen. Duke would start in the Preakness." Inswept also was on the course for a breeze this morning, the son of Faultless, who won a Preakness racing for Calumet, going a handy half mile in :48Vs in anticipation of his race in this Mondays prep. Bold Ruler is to have a gallop over the track this Sunday, to acquaint him with its texture and the scenery while limbering up for the prep. Joe Culmone has the riding assignment on Inswept in the Prep, with Norman Cox on the presumptuous Convoy. Under the terms of the Prep, Bold Ruler will be top-1 weight with 124 pounds, conceding four to Inswept and seven to Convoy. The Prep is to be presented between the sixth and sev-[ enth races on the program, and gives the days proceedings a fillip of academic in-1 terest. Bold Ruler has never raced in Maryland. Meanwhile, it was indicated that owner Ralph Lowe and trainer John Nerud of Gallant Man, whom many consider an un-[ lucky loser of the Kentucky Derby, wjll reach a decision regarding his Preakness status over the week end. Contacted in New York today. Nerud told the writer: "I would say he is a doubtful starter. I expect to be in touch with Mr. Lowe on Sunday or Monday. Dont know where he is right now. In Old Mexico. I believe. But he will call and then I will know. The colt is all right." Gallant Man is a smallish, rather delicate individual and has had two bruising races in the Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby. On top of that, he was "shook [ up" in a 31 hours train ride from Louis-i ville back to Aqueduct. r Nerud is quietly confident that the son I of Migoli will stay a good mile and a half. i the distance of the Belmont Stakes, and it i may be decided to await that "test of the ; champion," bypassing the Preakness. As the date of the history-making mile and three-sixteenths approaches, it_ appears early estimates the field would number a dozen or more may have been optimistic. The definite probables at the moment are Iron Liege, Bold Ruler, Inswept, Federal Hill who arrived yesterday , Nah Hiss, Promised Land and High Sparkle. Mrs. Jules Schwartz Nah Hiss won a Jamaica version of the Preakness Prep yesterday, en route negotiating Promised Lands defeat. The latter is nevertheless definitely intended for the Preakness. Am-ory Haskells High Sparkle, a brother to Blue Sparkler, is entered for the Delaware Valley at Garden State Park today. There are seven in the forementioned group. Possible additions include Gen. Duke, One-Eyed King, Gallant Man and Convoy. In fact. "Woody" Stephens yesterday indicated he may saddle two for the Preakness. in Cain Hoys One-Eyed King and Lucky Dip. The last named was beaten almost 12 lengths by Nah Hiss at Jamaica yesterday, however. The week ahead will be very telling for these possible starters.
