Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-11 | Page 20 | Vanderbilt Hopes Impound Takes Preakness Stakes

-TrainetandJocke5ot4BigJohn?- Left, Sunny Jim i'itssimmons and Jockey Jimmy Stout, who ara pointing Johnstown, Kentucky Derby victor, for a triumph In the classic Preakness Saturday. Vanderbilt Hopes Impound Takes Preakness Stakes By MASON BRl'NSON Associated Presa Sports Writer BALTIMORE, May 11 (AP) Alfred Cwynne Vanderbilt, young president of the Maryland Jockey club, sat in the clubhouse dininf room at Pimlico, scooped up the last forkful of scrambled eggs and said: "This will probably be about the greatest Preakness ever run and I'd rather get the cup than give it." He waa referring, of course, to the forty-ninth running of the SAO,-000 SAO,-000 added Preakness stakes here Saturday a horse raoa that annually annual-ly captures the fancy and frenay of the thousanda who follow the thorough thor-ough breda And what h meant by his remark re-mark waa that ha hoped his colt. Impound, would win tlvs rare and Ha historic traphy, the Waod-bswn Waod-bswn vase. It la the elub president's presi-dent's role ta present this trophy ta the victor's awaer. Te receive It himself would be quite a novelty. nov-elty. Not In the M-year history of the Preakness has a Jockey club president presi-dent won the event. Facing these odds and taking his horse racing seriously. Vanderbilt kept Impound out of the Kentucky Derby and pointed him for the Preakness. Mulling over the situation at breakfast with Dave Woods, his right-hand man, Vanderbilt chased a butter - honey - and - toast tid bit with coffee and a cigaret and spoke of Impound. Horse Looks Good "He has been working well here and looks as good as ever. There was no break In his conditioning when Trainer Bud Btotler was hurt In sn automobile accident while we were at Havre do Grace. Lee McCoy Mc-Coy took over the training without a pause In Impounds routine." But what about Impound s chances In the Preakness? Is the stout-hearted stretch-runner good enough to beat William Woodward's Kentucky Derby winner, Johnstown, in the mile and three-sixteenths test? "I hope so," Vanderbilt said. What Johnstown will do against a fisld made up mostly of horses be didn't meet in the Derby Is one of the angles that makes this Preak-nesa Preak-nesa loom as a "great" race one that will test Johnstown's right to ths title of "king of the threa-year-olds." Just now K looks as If there are only seven sura starters Johasetewa and his running mate. Challenge; Impound. Wheaatlry stable's Gilded Knight W. U Rrann'a t'halledon, Maratoga ata-bler ata-bler Veal taut and King sUaca Caeajcta.