Evening star., 1951-05-20
Bold Coasts to SevenLength Victory Preanes Pays 5000
Counterpart Is Second,
|AIerted. a Driiviinq Third
Arcoro Rides to Fourth Win in Classic:
Repertoire Lost After Leading Briefly

a length and half. Nearing the
lar turn. a great shout went up
from the crowd when the white
and black colors worn by Pete
Mclean, Repetoire's rider, showed
IN front for a brief instant. Repe-
toire led by about a neck for just
a short time-it happened be-
tween calls and doesn't show on
the chart - and then Arcaro
turned Bold loose.
Repertoire Fades Rapidly.
From that point on, there was
nothing to it. Repertoire faded
rapidly and Mclean conceded the
.Delaware-owned colt just didn't
have it. Timely Reward wasn't too
far back going up the back stretch
and If he had had the closing
power he has been credited with,
he might have made it interesting.
Instead. it was the unsung Coun-
terpoint, a less moody son of
Eight Thirty, who came on to
oahC ocCOIlu ulOIley.
Alerted also closed stoutly but
never managed to worry Arcaro
any.
HaC it not been for that Freak
ness Prep last Monday, Bold miglN
have been prohibitive favorite
today. In that race, a non-bettiug
affair in which only Bold, Alerted
and the King Ranch's Sonic were
entered, Bold set the early pace
under Joe Culmone but Alerted
nailed him in the stretch and
won by neck.
CulmOne OutSmarted,
Close race followers agreed that
Culmone was outsmarted by
Sammy Boulmetis, Alerted's rid
er. and, predicted the switch to
Arcaro might make things diff
ferent. Few expected, however,
that Bold would make a runaway
out of this Diamond Jubilee
Preakness.
Another big factor in the betting
was last falls Pimlico Futurity.
In that race the then unbeaten
Bold-winner by seven lengths in
his only startled into the stretch
and looked like champion. Then
Atkinson turned Big Stretch loose
and the Greentree racer went by
Bold like shot and won by 41a
lengths.
Only a few weeks before, Big
Stretch had just missed in the
Belmont F'uturity. so it's easy to
understand what Jockey Atkinson
meant when he says he thinks
Big Stretch needs a psychiatrist."
In his six races, Bold has won
three and been second three times.
Actually, the son of Jimmy-Little
Rebel. has finished first four
times, but he was disqualified at
Bowie last November and placed
second behind Joe Tucci's Bob
Considine in the Endurance
Handicap.
Bold Easy Winner May 9.
Culmone, the whoop-de-do-
Sicilian who was then in the
of a hot streak, was riding
Bold on that occasion and the colt
swerved under the whip.
Bold's first start this spring
was made in May 9 at Pimlico.
He won by IL length in a mile
and-a-sixteenth race and GER
,ainly would have been the favor
tie today but for his defeat by
Alerted.
AS Preaknesses go, this was, a
pretty drab one and Bold didn't
1elp any by running away with
t. The crowd wasn't up to those
of the past and neither was the
I'D Preakness spirit.
But Arcaro, who doubles as an
author, is still doing all right.
His four Preakness victories puts
him out in front of all rivals, and
n the Derby it's the same story.
IN the Belmont Stakes, an old
liner named Jimmy Mclaughlin
ode five winners during the
.880s. but Arcaro seems confident
hat Bold will help him catch up.