Evening star., 1961-03-15
Tudor Way
Gets rs Lbs.
For Campbell
BY JOSEPH B. KELLY
Star Racing Editor

The weights for the John B.
Campbell Memorial Handicap
to be run at Bowie, Saturday,
March Is, were out today with
high of 1875 pounds going to a
horse that has Just been taken
out of training.
Racing Secretary John B.
Turner. handed out the top
impost in the 100000 added
event to Yorky, Calumet Farms
acknowledged champion of
Eastern winter handicap racing.
Unfortunately, Jimmy Jones,
trainer Of the Bull Lea colt,
announced only today that his
charge has been declared out
Of the Gulfstream Handicap
this Saturday because he de-
veloped a temperature and
apparently has cracked his left
front hoof.
Tudor Way Gets 125
Tudor Way, Juan d'Agostino's
Argentine-bred 5-year-old, was
next high weight with 1875.
Tudor Way, flashed into the
picture last week end when
he galloped to an. easy 10
length victory in the Appleton
Handicap at Gulfstream. Tudor
Way is a definite starter in
the Gulfstream Handicap and
his Campbell status will be de-
cided after the Florida race.
A horse with Washington
connections eligible for the
Campbell is Don Poggio, owned
by Gustave Ring. Don Poggio
another Argentine-bred has
been given 124 pounds for the
Campbell. He won the Merchant
and Citizens, Manhattan and
Gallant Fox Handicaps last
year in New York, but has
been unsuccessful in three
starts this season.
jerome Derenzo'S April Skies
received 100 pounds and is due
here next week for the engage
ment. The 4-year-old gelding is
a superior Sprinter but may
carry his speed over the Camp
bell distance of a mile and one
sixteenth.
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Mrs. Edith L. Prices Yes You
Will, last years Campbell win
ner, was assigned 119 pounds,
4 more than his burden in 1860.
Grouped at 118 are Sidney M.
Barton's Greek Star, C. Mahlon
Kline's Mystic II, Elmendorf's
Nickel Boy and Ada L. Prices
Talent Show.
Pied dor, lit, stablemate
of Yorky, is rated a good
chance of upholding the Calu-
met Farm colors in the Camp
bell. The 4-year-old colt was
a recent winner at Gulfstream
in a 6-furlong test in which
he was clocked in 1:10Ks under
1913 pounds.
Meanwhile. eleven 3-year-olds
Gold Cup next Saturday. H. o.
Frelingbuysen's Merry Sover-
eign is flying here for the race
from Miami. An English-bred,
Merry Sovereign won two for
three at Hialeah this winter.
Despite the addition of the
Frelinghuysen colt, Scotch Bull,
owned by Mrs. Mable McCabe,
and a winner of two Bowie
stakes at the current meeting,
remained the early favorite for
the Gold Cup. Other probable
starters In the richest sopho-
more race Of the Bowie season
are Mr.. Thor, Mr.. Egotist, Ram
Tomroy, Hasty Honey, Hot
Cargo. Bal Musette, Jack
Bender. Hunters Rock and
Hy-Nat.
Yesterdays third race was
the last for the 5-year-old gray
mare. Grey Haze, owned by
Mrs. Pearl Schwebel. The mare,
trailing the field, collapsed
from an internal hemorrhage
while running through the
stretch. She died a few min
utes later. Jockey George
Walker escaped injury in the
spill, the, mud softening the
fall.
There also was a casualty
in the second race when the
winning Son O. Taurus re-
turned lame. It was discov-
cred that the 4-year old gelding
had broken a bone in his foot.