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i i Ten Ten Contest Contest Nash Nash Memorial; Memorial; 5,750Grey 5,750Grey Lag Lag Engages11 Engages11 Vertex Will Carry 130-Pound Impost Spots Talent Show .Eleven, Piano Jim Fourteen Today As Jamaica Meeting Closes By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., May 8.— Vertex, crack five-year-old son of The Rhymer and Kanace, who runs under the Joseph J. Brunetti silks but is owned jointly by Bru-netti and Frank A. Piarulli, heads a field of 11 seasoned performers scheduled to meet Saturday in the 5,750 Grey Lag Handicap, closing day feature of the Jamaica spring meeting. Vertex will spot his 10 rivals from 11 to 25 pounds in the 9 furlongs stakes when he goes to the post under 130 pounds. No winner of the Grey Lag has ever carried as much as 130 pounds. Assault captured the 1947 renewal under 128 pounds and Nashua packed the same impost when he triumphed in 1956. Won Two 00,000 Races "Vertex comes up to the week-end classic with a splendid record. Under colors on four occasions thus far in the current season, he won three engagements, including the 00,000 Gulfstream Handicap and the 00,000 John B. Campbell Handicap, the latter two races within a weeks time. Vertex shouldered 125 pounds in the VA miles of the Gulfstream and annexed the 1 1-16 miles Campbell at Bowie under 124 pounds. Vertex now has earned 63,565 and a Grey Lag triumph would put him well over the 00,000 mark. The net value for this edition of the stakes with 11 starters amounts to 4,887.50. Three rich New York fixtures will follow the Grey Lag renewal, the Empire States own Triple Crown, the Metropolitan Mile, IV* miles Suburban, and 1 3-16 miles Brooklyn, each Continued on Page Eight I 4 II1»»»W.— ■ ■■■■■■ IIIIIH ■■■M—Hp.l ■ ■ ■— P— I I I 1 ■ I "»■ VERTEX — Takes up 130 pounds in the Grey Lag Handicap at Jpmaica as he attempts to make it four victories in a row. Eleven Meet in 5,750 Grey Lag Vertex Will Carry 130-Pound Impost Spots Talent Show Eleven, Piano Jim Fourteen Today As Jamaica Meeting Closes Continued from Page One carrying 00,000 added money. But two horses during these~three fixtures 60-odd years history were able to score slams, the great Tom Fool and equally-famous Whisk Broom H. Jockey Sammy Boulmetis will try for his initial Grey Lag success aboard Vertex. Included in the band named to oppose Vertex "are a pair* of distaffs; Robert J. Kleberg Jr.s King Ranch mare, Dotted Line, lt9, and Mrs. Dodge Sloanes Big Effort, 112 pounds. Others in Line-up The Chicago sportslady, Ada L. Rice, will be represented by the hard-hitting Talent Show, 119; James .O. McCues Brae Burn Farm colors will be carried by General Arthur, 115, and Walter M. Jif fords will rely on Piano Jim, 116 pounds. Edward P. Taylors Windfields Farm colt, Grey Monarch, 112; S. Helene Sadaccas A Dragon Killer, 112; Max Glucks Elmen-dorf homebred, Day Court, 109, William Kratochwil -and Thomas Effs Krestwood Farm hopeful, Bing Bang, 107, and Howell E. Jacksons Cross Channel, 105 pounds, completes the probable Grey Lag starting band. Jockey Bobby Ussery, who won the 1957 Grey Lag astride Kingmaker, will have the mount on Piano Jim tomorrow while Bill Boland, successful last year with Oh Johnny, is to guide Big Effort. Eddie Ar-caro, unable to win a prior running of the Grey Lag, will be at the reins on Talent Show, Jimmy Combest rides A Dragon Killer, Pete Anderson is named on the Canadian invader, Grey Monarch, Sid Cole will be aboard Bing Bang, John Choquette is engaged for General Arthur, and Charles Burr" will pilot Cross Channel. The reinsmen for Day Court and Dotted Line were not announced when Grey Lag post positions were drawn this morning. Talent Show, a quick four-year-old homebred son of Olympia and Royal Lily, won the Delaware Valley Handicap during his 1958 campaign and was a sharp contender in several other stakes, finishing second in the Jersey, Arlington Classic, Benjamin Franklin and Coral Gables Handicap. After running second his season this season in the Royal Poinciana and Magic City Handicaps, he was third back of Vertex in the Campbell Handicap, and then bounced back with a pair of conquests, the Laurel Maturity and Valley Forge Handicap. Piano Jim, one of the aces in the Jeffords barn, captured the Travers last season and recently won the Laurel Handicap while Big Effort, actualy third in the Grey Lag weights when a five-pound sex allowance is considered, beat a good field here last Saturday in the 5,000 Bed o Roses Handicap. Grey Monarch, no stranger to New York racing followers, is iavorably weighted and could prove troublesome if he races to the form that earned him top honors in the 1958 renewals of the Saratoga Special and Woodbine Jockey Club Cup. He recently ran third in the Excelsior Handicap after encountering rather bad racing luck in the earlier stages of that middle-distance stakes. Dotted Line, a homebred Princequillo-sired mare, won the Miss America Turf Handicap last year, placed in the Ladies Handicap, Delaware Handicap and, running against colts, was second to Inside Tract in the exacting 2 miles Jockey Club Gold Cup. A Dragon Killer has shown occasional flashes of class, accounting for the Arlington Classic last year -in an upset, while Day Court, Bing Bang and Cross Channel would have to show marked improvement to figure seriously in this sixteenth renewal of the Grey Lag.
