Show SPORT LIGHT palestinian ponder or capot by GRANTLAND RICE what about the belmont 7 ER TH THE E RACE at pimlico AFT and on the way home we heard no one discussing either the kentucky derby or the preakness Pre akness the flow of racing con conversation v ersa tion turned in the general direction of the belmont to be run june 11 over the mlle mile and a half test the real test tor for tho the three year old there were three names t that h a t led most of the comment ponder P 0 n d er capot and pales the triple n t n grantland R rice fee crown for 1949 lg Is now dust and dreams or such I 1 things as dust and dreams are made of with ponder in charge of the derby and capot on top in the preakness Pre akness it would woul d be no unfair turn of fortunes wheel to see palestinian win the belmont w which aich he e ml might do the bieber jacobs horse was finishing close up and strongly in both the and the preakness Pre akness and no ho one ca can n say that belmontes belmonta Bel monta monts longer race will hurt him a bit before the preakness Pre akness 1 I happened to run across warren wright the baron of calumet the preakness Pre akness distance may have been too short for ponder he said but I 1 honestly think ponder should win the belmont the longer the distance the better ponder likes it ile he comes from far back 20 le lengths or or more anabe and he needs running distance to make make up aup this ground parnell ben jones offered no prediction but he admitted that the longer the race the better ponder would like it even evem up 0 o two miles mile noo no one ne can question the fact that ponder can handle the route what about capot john Gaver turned in a fine fifie jab of having cipani capot CipA Ii inper aper feet fact shape for both theDer the byland yie preakness Pre akness when a horse breaks a track record running against the ume time set seaby ir by such horses away count fleet egand and citation he mus must t be moving movin g in a hurry capot Capo was leading at tho the mile and three thic 6 slit sixteenths e entas in both the derby and the preakness Pre kness akness lie ile had the continued speed of bf the field but what jabout aj a mile and a half this Is something else again that extra quarter can be pa heavy test unless the race Is slowly runo run palestinian has shown both speed and stamina in his last three races the wood the derby and the preakness Pre akness his record is 2 3 2 being extremely close to winning dinning on two occasions ponders most recent marks are 15 1 5 capoto last three are 3 21 palestinian like capot and ponder is also an improving horse palestinian has had enough speed to run with anybody he has been coming on cutting away ground in his bis last three big races race 11 capot a had to tight fight bravely and desperately to keep his head lead at pimlico and I 1 dont think an extra of a mile would have bothered palestinian finian tinian in the slightest ho he is both fast fasi and strong the belmont will have all this th Is plus sun bahram noble I 1 impulse and others old rockport rockfort Rock port rocky seems to be slipping flipping instead of get ting better he had bad it since he left california although as able a trainer as ben jones still believes he run his race moto more games gaines than one A day or two ago we ran into ralph kercheval now in charge of alfred Vander bilts racing farm how many remember that more than ID 10 years ago kercheval was one of the greatest kickers college football ever knew many well known pro coaches have hav e tangled in arguments as to whether kercheval or ken strong was the greater allaround kicker shipwreck kelly another kentuckian was always a kercheval booster ralph had full early faith in Vander bilts loser weeper winner recently of the metropolitan loser weeper has improved as much as any horse I 1 know kercheval said before that race As far as racing goes sammy ammy renick has gone out for the versatility sati lity record sammy started as a rider one of the best then he began as a racing owner and now is involved in the television section where he is one of the seasons video hits no sam said recently ive never tried training I 1 may take a shot at that later 4 0 0 the one who has tried the toughest combination is ellsworth vines who is battling earnestly to make as good a living out of golf as he did out of tennis vines has played a 4 lot lafof of fine golf but he has never been the champion he used to be at tennis |