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iBold Ruler Due At Churchill· n Track Today By Pat l.ynch The Wheatley Stable's Bold Ruler was due at Churchill Downs this afternoon for the May 4 engagement in the 83rd Kentucky Derby .. The racey son of NasruIlah D hooked onto the Cincinnati Limited yesterday afternoon and L was due at LoUisville, Ky., this - morning. The colt will be vanned to the track in care of Bart Sweeney, FITZ WON THREE The 82-year'-0Id Mr. Fitz will leave for Kentucky this week- end by train to supervise the training of the colt. He hopes it will bring him his fourth Kentucky Derby victory. Mr. Fitz' previous s U.cc e s s at Churchill Downs accomplished by Gallant Fox, Johnstown and Omaha. ' The old man might have had a fourth winner if not for hard luck, In 1936 he sent out Gran- vllle against Bold Venture. ville against 'Bold· Venture. Jockey Jimmy stout picked the' precise moment of 1)he'start to i admire the glistening haunches' :of Granville. This was accom- IpUshed by :falling from his I mount at the 'break.and gazing' Iwistfully down the track as the field thundered into history. I Granville. went on to become t the three-year-old champion of IhlS year. , I, MASTER TACTICIAN , Although'it is to'be deplored, ~uhat Bold Ruler will not have .a fe·el of the Ohurchill Downs' strip in competition prior to' the Derby, Mr. Fitz is master- . ful prepai'ingl a colt, Do~n through the years~ he has not had any peeTSreadying a horse . for the classic distances. i A quick case in: point' was j Nashua for his :famed match ~ with Swaps at Washington ~ Park, ,j Mr. P'ltz poured it to Nashua ~ !j.t Satratoga, over a type of 1 track vastly ,different 'from the ~ hard Chicago strip. Swaps had 1 the advantage of running over ~ the Washington Park ribbon. ~ Nashua was shipPed in the 1 August heat and broke up ~ Swaps in the match,' You might rightfully ask: "Oh yeah, where was Nashua in the Kentucky Derby without a 'race over the track?" Anq. we'll say: "That's a';lfoodqu.estiOn, bUb."· , '.

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