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Grey Lag Cap to Draw From 10 to 1 3 Expect Kingmaker To Try for Repeat RepeatWon Won Last Years Renewal Promised Land Oligarchy Find Paper Tiger Also Going GoingBy By DON FAIR FAIRJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Y May 7 The four ¬ teenth renewal of the 50000 added Grey Lag Handicap will headline Saturdays closing day program at Jamaica and a field comprising 10 to 13 starters is ex ¬ pected to meet in the 9furlong stake Happy Hill Farms Kingmaker recent win ¬ ner of the Excelsior and successful in the 1957 running of the Grey Lag is rated a sure starter in the weekend fixture fixtureAlfred Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Find who scored in the 1953 renewal of the Grey Lag may try for a double in the stakes while Mrs Ethel D Jacobs Promised Land and Paper Tiger gives that stable a good chance for a third Grey Lag triumph Stymie carried the Jacobs Silks successfully in the 19451946 editions of the rich race raceOthers Others who may be under colors Satur ¬ day are Christopher T Chenerys Third Brother Brookmeade Stables Oligarchy Mrs John R H Thourons Englishbred Ben Lomond Mrs Jan Burkes Field of Honor Maine Chance Farms Busher Fan ¬ tasy and King Ranchs Beam Rider Pos ¬ sibly Jack W Schiffers General Arthur Ogden Phipps Bureaucracy Joe W Browns Tenacious and Nelson B Hunts Master Boing a noted grass track racer racerScored Scored in Excelsior Under 123 123Kingmaker Kingmaker pegged at 123 pounds for the Grey Lag shouldered a like impost in the 1 116 miles Excelsior and beat Third Brother a length and onequarter The Chenery stallion carried 124 pounds when bowing to Kingmaker but he is in the Grey Lag with 120 pounds a weight switch that may bring these two stars down to the wire in a close contest contestBeam Beam Rider was a strong third in the Excelsior Ben Lomond a creditable fifth while Bureaucracy and Find finished eighth and night respectively Beam Rider drew 103 pounds for the Grey Lag Ben Lomond is slated to pack 115 Bureaucracy 107 while Find is assigned a steadying 119 pound impost impostKingmaker Kingmaker and General Arthur were on tno Belmont muddy training course this morning for trials Kingmaker was given an easy fiveeighths mile breeze in 105 and General Arthur stepped threequarters mile in 117 hard held heldWith With New York racing moving to Bel ¬ mont Park Monday May 12 considerable interest has been aroused in the renewal of the Withers Stakes the Elmont plants inaugural day feature The 1 mile three yearold stakes may bring out a dozen from the age division and several probable starters were given drills early today todayMyron Myron N Goodwins Board Man Temple ton Stables Clandestine and Chenery Sta ¬ bles Surinam were on the Belmont main course for mile trials Beard Man skipped through the sloppy footing in 141 hand ¬ ily Clandestine and Surinam each com ¬ pleted their works in 140 and both went along quite handily the entire trip tripAlexander Alexander J Ostrikers Nisht Amool a Withers candidate worked a mile around the dogs in 144 over the muddy Ja ¬ maica oval Nisht Amool was accompanied by Steel Flash and dockers reported the pair went evenly all the way
