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POINTERS ON PICKING DERBY WINNER Pick One Bred Right Trained Right and with Desir ¬ able Race Horse Qualifications BY CIIAHLES B RROSSMAX RROSSMAXNumerous Numerous people all over Hie country ire scan ¬ ning the list of nominations for the Kentucky Derby with avidity that is most remarkable All of tlie important events iu horse history are en ¬ shrined in a halo of glorious achievement that makes the winner forever held in affectionate con ¬ spicuous remembrance The Kentucky Derby is one race that has been run annually since 187 when Aristide poked his nose to the wire first Other states had great races by spasms greater than the Kentucky Derby but it is to the honor and glory of Kentucky that her breeders have kept this great race going without a lapse Through good repute and ill when the pendulum swung away and when it swung back the breeders and agricultural in ¬ terests of Kentucky have stood by the race tracks and by doing so made that state famous all over the world worldThere There have been other states that have bred the fleetest and gamest race horses that trod the American turf in their day but on account of pe ¬ culiar political and moral idiosyncracies the thor ¬ oughbred horse business has been made the target for the fanatics the bigoted and the uninformed so that in those states the business has been so harassed persecuted and annoyed that it has ceased to exist The enthusiasm of the horse lover cant be extin ¬ guished therefore diligent virile Americans every ¬ where will continue to try to pick the winner of these famous stakes as long as horses are bred and races are run runThe The 1919 Derby is attracting an unusual amount of attention on account of the large and excellent entry list Different people are picking out Billy Kelly Eternal Dunboyne or other of the big money winning prominent twoyearolds of last pear ap ¬ parently forgetting the fact that horses oftentimes greatly change from their two to their threeyear old form and a horse that never showed much is a twoyearold may be a king in his threeyearold form as in the case of Leonatus and Buchanan However it is not all in the horse A limited number of trainers always have won all of the Stakes and will likely continue to do so Almost anyone can train a horse to run fiveeighths and threequarters of a mile but when it comes to fit ¬ ting a horse to go the Derby distance it requires a real trainer trainerThere There used to be a coterie of trainers around Chicago that were efficjent careful painstaking men that understood their business and any one of them could make a horse run as fast and as far as his physical conformation would allow him to go Many of them are dead or retired from active service but a number are still in the thick of the fight and their horses are now classed among the big money winners on any track trackTRAINERS TRAINERS EVERYONE OF THEM THEMSam Sam Hildreth Henry McDaniels Dick Williams Pat Dupne and a number of other old Chicago train ers demonstrated all of the time that they still have the necessary ability and requirements to properly prepare a horse for any kind of a race Therefore the trainer must be carefully considered for whatever horse wins the Kentucky Derby this year must have the advantage of an expert trainer iTliere was a news article that went the rounds of the papers this winter that said that 1at Dunne ought to be congratulated in securing Under Fire the promising Derby candidate I believe that they were bestowing their congratulations in the wrong place I think the horse should have been congratu ¬ lated in securing Tat Dunne for a trainer 1 If it were not for the uncertainty and unreliability of most fillies in the springtime Joe Hawkins Delico might repeat the performance of Regret It might however be one of her good days and she will run as well as she did in the fall Regalo is also a good filly and being a daughter of the famous Lady Strathmore should have a chance in any kind of a race The only other filly nomi ¬ nated is Polka Dot a chestnut filly by Celt Net ¬ work which did not start in her twoyearold form therefqre no line on her is obtainable obtainableIn In all there are seventyfive royallybred three yearolds nominated representing most of the suc ¬ cessful sires in this country and many noted for ¬ eign ones but if history repeats itself the winner will be obliged to have some Lexington Hanover Gleucoe Bonnie Scotland blood somewhere in its tabulated pedigrees therefore intending speculators should select one that is bred right trained right and has all of the desirable race horse qualifica ¬ tions tionsRaces Races of this character attract attention and create enthusiam throughout the whole country There is sort of a rivalry and sectional pride mani ¬ fest that encourages better breeding The wealthy owners from the cast as well as those from the far west will meet iif Kentucky to see the Derby de ¬ cided while if it were not for the highclass racing that Kentucky presents many of these promi ¬ nent wealthy business men would never go into the state at all
