OCR Text |
Show Johnstown, Gilded Knight-Promise Knight-Promise Odd Betting Race BALTIMORE, May 10 (UP) The $50,000 added Preakness Saturday Sat-urday probably will be one of the strangest betting races in history his-tory because Johnstown is such an odds-on favorite that a wager on him to show will pay as much as one to win. The mutuel machine mrt forced by law to pay a 10 per cent return on any winning ticket or $2.20 for a $2 wager and aince the bettors can expect no better than that price on John town to win, the ex perta think most of the money will go on him to show. And, the Kentucky derby winner will not be running alone, but will be coupled with Gilded Knight as the Wheatley farms entry. This apparently would insure a bet, because be-cause Gilded Knight is the second choice to take the rich stake. Both are trained by Sunny Jim Fitzaim-mons Fitzaim-mons and are expected to run one-two. one-two. Entry Baa Favor Three horses would have to finish fin-ish ahead of this mighty pair to lose a show bet on the entry, and that hardly seems In the realm of possibility in a field which is expected ex-pected to include Ciencia. Impound, Volitant, Challedon, Eighty-Thirty, Heather Broom and T. H. Dorset t. Johnstown is the winner of four straight starts by anything from four to eight lengths, including the derby and the Wood Memorial. The only condition which might change the complexion of the race would be mud at Pimlico Saturday. The Jamestown colt has not yet had to prove, himself in the gooey jjoing, but nis backers claim he would take it In stride. Glided Knight M udder If It should be muddy, there Is Gilded Knight to protect a bet The Wheatley stable candidate captured cap-tured the $2900 added Survivor stakes by a length over a muddy strip yesterday. His time of 1:42 3-5 for the mile and a sixteenth was only 1 3-6 seconds off the track record. Ciencia, filly winner of the Santa Anita derby, apparently has recovered recov-ered from a slight injury suffered in shipment here and was given a short gallop yesterday. Saratoga stable's Volitant worked a half-mile in 48 2-5 seconds, and the only other Preakness candidate out was Alfred Al-fred Vanderbilt'a Impound, which breezed a mile and one-eighth In 1:56. |