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CANDIDATES FOR THE EPSOM DERBY. American EMgibles Will Not Start— Crokers Orby Receives Heavy Support. Six American-bred and owned colts are eligible to the Derby to be run at Epsom Downs in England June 5. but none of them will start. They are all in this country at the present time. They are James R. Keenes Superman and Grlmaldi and Henna R. Duryeas Priuce Forlunatiis, Prince Hampton, Chaseaway and Hickory. In less it be Superman, which established ■ new record for the mile and a sixteenth at Helmont Park Thursday, none at them have shown qualities which would entitle them to the slightest consideration among such horses as will make up the lield for the Blue Riband of the Turf. Superman is by Commando, out of Anomaly, a daughter of Bend Or and Blue Rose, which Mr. Keen© bought iu England ia 1001. Though she was foaled in 1*96 and had been sent to the stud Anomaly was unnamed when Mr Keene purchased her. Grimaldi, which made his first start of the year in the last race at Belmont Park yesterday, did not win as a two-year aM. Prince Fortnnatus is the only one af the Daryea quartette that lias started this year and he is still a maiden. Prince Hampton won one race out of his eleven starts last year and Hickory could do no T»etler than one third ont of eight starts. Chaseaway uas the most useful horse ot the four. Ha started ten times, won a selling race Car maidens at Brighton Beach iu July and the next time out Ilnisbcd a trailing s Hid to Sahidere ia the Brighton Juuior Slakes. However. Americans will have an itderest in Ban Derby this year. Richard croker has declared his intention of starting his chestnut colt Orby. which along with Col. Bairds Wool Winder, has lately been getting heavy support. Orby was foaled at Mr. Crokers stud in Ireland. His sire is the eelehtated English stallion Orine and his dam is the American mare Rhoda B.. by Hanover — Mar-gerine, therefore a full sister to The Commoner. The unbeaten Polar .Star Is not eligible to the Derby. The nine leading candidates for the Derby with their owners, breeding and latest quotations in the betting test are given below: Capt. Greers blk. c, Slieve flaillaa, by Gal-linttle Reclusion 6 to 4 Major Loders ch. c, Galvini, by Laveno — Galllnaria 4 ro 1 Lonl Roseberys b. c, Bezonian, bv Velasquez — Gas 7 to 1 Edmoad Blancs b. c, Ouadi — Haifa. in Persimmon — Yesterling . . 8 to 1 Col. E. W. Bairds b. e. Wood Winder, bv Martagon— St. Windeline 100 to S Ricliard Crokers ch. c. Orby. bv Orme — Rhoda B 100 to 7 Lord ClonmeHs br. c. All Black, bv Gal-linult — Vortex 100 to 6 Sir J. Robinsons b. c. Linacre. by Wolfs Crag — Lismaiue 20 to 1 R. Terrys ch. c, St. Petersburg, by Pieters-maritzburg— Lycoeua Alans 100 to 3 In recent comment on the favorites for the Derby and Oaks Witch Elm, Warren Hill, the critic of the London Sporting Life writes: There is nothing fresh in the Oaks to upset the leading trio— Witch Elm, Frugality and .Sixty— unless Victoria should prove in a better mood, and it seems to me that Slieve Gallion and Galvani with Witch Elm in doubles would be a pretty safe bet. Galvani went well on Saturday in a captal gallop over a mile, and as there is not a doubt he was better than Bezonian by a good seven pounds last year, aud had the honor at least of heating Slieve Gallion, there are two lines in proof that he was as good as the latter. It is no use guessing at anything in racing, and whereas it is pure conjecture that Slieve Gallion could not have won the Two Thousand any further. we might equally suppose that he would have shot out like an arrow had he been touched with the whip. Again if he was really running home tram the Bushes under pressure, it says volumes lor his gaaataaaa and stamina, and we know that uothing ma beat him for speed. I am sure I wish he was not quite so good for the sake of our own candidates, and if Galvani or Wool Winder beat him it will indeed be by a narrow margin.
