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Bold Ruler Gains Clever Preakness Prep Victory Leads Inswept by Length While Posting Fast Time at Pimlico By CHARLES HATTON PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 13.— Bold Ruler and Inswept gave a crowd of 9,229 a good show in the betless Preakness Prep this afternoon when their riders pulled their whips in midstretch and the Wheatley colt, wearing blinkers, drew out to a clever victory by one length in this mile and a sixteenth. It was 12 langths back to Convoy, the only other starter. Neither the Phipps nor Roslyn Farm Colt was exactly "wrung out" in this tuneup for Saturdays 00,000 classic, but the successful son of Nasrullah swept under the wire in the lively time of 1:43% under topweight of 124 pounds. Jockey Eddie Arcaros plane from New York was delayed, and the running of the Prep was set back an hour, but he made up time on Bold Ruler when that colt, closely Continued on Page Fifty -Tw* Bold Bold Ruler Ruler Wins Wins Preakness Preakness Prep; Prep; Oligarchy Oligarchy Trounces Trounces Newark Newark Rivals Rivals Victor and Inswept Just Length Apart • Wheatley Colt Posts Lively Time at Pimlico in Betless Race Before 9,229 Patrons Continued from Page One accompanied by the presumptuous Inswept passed the mile mark in 1:37. time a fifth better than the track record at this distance, an odd one over the Pimlico course. Bold Ruler went on out nine furlongs in 1:5025 and the full Preakness route in 1:59, time only three-fifths behind Fabius* in winning the 80th renewal of the classic a year ago. Other Candidates Make News It was a day of reckoning for *he leading Preakness candidates. Gallant Man was declared. Gen. Duke eliminated himself when he limped pathetically from the course after a public mile trial, and Iron Liege proved his conquest of the Derby was no fluke when he made the watches sing with a blazing mile in 1:37%. Never given his head, pricking his ears all the way. and with trainer Jones waving him to a virtual canter the final furlong, the "pinch hitter" bettered the first miles of the Preaknesses won by Native Danver, Hasty Road. Blue Man. Citation, Assault, Count Fleet. Whirl -away and other celebrities. As his big striding charge pulled up. trainer Jones allowed himself to say: "He likes the track." Though he was .40 to at Louisville. Iron Liege may be the favorite in the upcoming second leg of the American Triple Crown. The track was sprinkled before the Prep so that it was a trifle faster than it had been when Iron Liege zreezed. Eddie Arcaro said: "I wasnt impressed at all with his effort. The blinkers didnt seem to help. I rode him with a loose rein giving him Tiis head and that seemed to help. He didnt respond when I hit him at the quarter-pole right-handed. Then when I hit him left-handed he swerved. I kept shouting at Cul-mone to come on and make more of a race of it. All in all I didnt think very much of his race. Joe Culmone, on Inswept, reported: "Every time I took out after him hed Bold Ruler* take off. Inswept tired and I ran with all he had and I used the whip a little but it didnt help. As far as Im concerned Bold Ruler was only loafing. We gave it all we had and have no excuses. He may have taken me out a little on the turn but I don! think it made any difference." Trainer Bonsai of the Roslyn colt estimated: He hasnt worked enough and he figured to get tired. Naturally, I would have liked to have won by three or four lengths but I am satisfied that he needed this race badly and you can rest assured he will give them a good fight on Saturday. He appears to have come out of the race in top shape." Bart Sweeney, who saddled Bold Ruler said: "He did it very nicely I thought. And the blinkers helped him. He didnt try to bear out any part of it." When asked of the cut that Bold Ruler suffered just above the left rear ankle. Sweeney said. "It is just a skin cut and isnt serious at all."
