Evening star., 1951-01-10
Uncle MiItie Listed
Ahead Of Battlefield
In Campbell Ratings
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Uncls
Miltie, a Pennsylvania bay coll
which ran in claiming races las
season before he developed into
one of the top two-year-old stake
horses. has been given the No.
rating for the Experimental Free
Handicap of 1851.
The surprise horse was assigned
1875 pounds to top the Expert
mental list prepared each winter
by John B. Campbell, Handicapped
and racing secretary of the New
York race tracks.
This 126-pound rating is two
pounds higher than that for Bat
tlefield, generally acclaimed as the
two-year-old champion of 1850
and Big Stretch. second to Battle
field in the Belmont Futurity.
Uncle Miltie, an impressive win
ner of the Champagne Stakes at
Belmont and the Wakefield at
Jamaica last fall, is owned by
Joseph j. Colando. He was bred
by his owner at his View
Stud Farm, Yardley, Pa.
Battlefield. owned by George D.
Widener, just nosed out Greentree
Stables Big Stretch in the $780,
600 Futurity. Uncle Miltie wasn't
nominated for the rich race.
Two Experimental HandicapS.
The list of Experimental weights
is prepared each January by
Campbell, who attempts to predict
on the basis of the horses juvenile
form what the now three-year-
olds will do in such classics as the
Kentucky Derby, Preakness and
Belmont Stakes.
Two Experimental Free Handi-
caps will be run at Jamaica in
April, affording the first New
York test of the weight assign
ments. The Experimental No. l
is at six furlongs and No. 2 is a
mile and a sixteenth.
Last year Campbell rated King
Ranch's battle-ground on top with
1875 pounds and the colt won the
Kentucky Derby and Belmont
Stakes. This year Campbell issued
ratings on lit horses, 10 more
than in 1850.
Duval Headley's Aunt jimmy and
Dell Stables How were given top
weight among the fillies, each
with ia pounds. Considering the
f1ve-pound filly allowance, this ac-
tually is only seven pounds off
Uncle Mites rating. Aunt jimmy
won the Demoiselle and Selma
Stakes.
Lost Two Claiming Races.
Uncle Miltie ran second and
third in two claiming races at
Garden State last year, but wound
up the season with eight victories
in IA starts and $54,075.
Battlefield started at Hialeah in
February won 10 of 13 races
throughout the year and banked
S198,677. Widener bought the colt
for $4,000 as a yearling at the
Saratoga sales.
After being nosed out by Battle
field in the Futurity, Big Stretch
went to Kentucky and won the
Breeders Futurity at Keeneland
and then the Pimlico Futurity at
Baltimore. The colt won four of
is starts. with three seconds and
three thirds. He was never worse
than fourth.
Fourth in the ratings was To
Market, with 121 pounds. To Mar
ket, a son of Market Wise, is
owned by Sam A. Mason II of
Chicago, and won the Arlington
and Washington Park Futurities.
Other weights included:
100 pounds-Battle Morn, Lord
Putnam; 1l9-Nullify, Rough n
Tumble; 118-Gold Capitol; 1T
Northern Star; 115-Bold, Pictus:
l14-General Staff, Kings Hope,
Long Bow, Mails Boy, Moham-
medan: 1l3-Flyamanita, lama
relic, Pet Bully. Repertoire; 112-
Away Away. Bernwood, Bugle-
Carolina Queen, Count
Turf, Longleat, Nameluke, Streak
ing. Win Or Lose.