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HOME-BREDS IN THE DERBY 4 E. R. Bradley Bred All of His Eli-gibles for Big Kentucky Event. 4 A. H. Morris, H. r. "Whitney and W. S. Kilmer Among Others "Whose Hopes Rest on Horses of Own Breeding. COVINGTON, Ky., March 17. Of the ten ! or a dozen thoroughbred producers of the : United States and Canada, -who have nominated home-bred colts and fillies in Kentuckys Golden Jubilee Derby, Edward Riley Bradley, of Idle Hour, appears on last years two-year-old form to have the most formidable material. Mr. Bradley has already won his Derby, and more. In 1921 his colts Behave Yourself and Black Servant, Idle Hour-bred sons respectively of Marathon and Black Tpney, finished one-two in the forty-seventh Derby, beating among others the previously unbeaten Tryster, also Prudery, Leonardo II. and Bon Homme. Commander J. K. L. Boss ot Montreal is the only other sportsman who lias accomplished such a feat. But the two- j ply Derby success of Sir Barton and Billy j Kelly in 1910 was no such signal triumph for j him as the double victory of 1921 was to bo j for. Bradley. Boss bought Sir Barton and j Billy Kelly from other producers and de-1 velopers. Mr. Bradley has been at production many years and his Idle Hour Farm is one of the countrys greatest thoroughbred nurseries. Commander Boss, who, since the victory of Sir Barton in 1919, has established studs of the stoutest American, British and French j stock in Kentucky and Quebec, has made Kentucky Derby nominations of his own breeding and raising this spring. Possibly he will not have a starter in May. CUDGEL AND BONIFACE. No Boss two-year-old of last year rose above mediocrity. But he will be a factor in coming Derbys. His great race horses of a few years back Boniface and Cudgel are at the stud in Kentucky. Cudgel may, indeed, have sired the Golden Jubilee Derby winner in Senator Norris, which will bear the silks through the coming year of H. G. Bedwell, Commander Boss former trainer.- Mr. Bradleys chance of winning the Golden Jubilee Derby cannot but be conceded to be first rate even if unusual merit is conceded to the candidates of all the other nominators. Behave Yourself did not look a bit better in March, 1921, than Beau Butler, the most formidable of the Bradley cligibles for the Golden Jubilee Derby, last years two-year-olds form considered, looks now. Behave Yourself had been beaten by both Tryster, the winter favorite for the forty-seventh Derby, and Grey Lag in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes inaugural at Churchill Downs. Last November at Pimlico Beau Butler, a colt by Black Toney Black Servants sire from Santa Anna II., an imported daughter of Martagon, shouldered 122 pounds and made a show of some of the best two-year-olds still in training of an uncommonly good year in the third Maryland Futurity. Beau Butlers share of the prize was 3,000. In consequence of winning it he finished third to St. James and Wise Counsellor among the two-year-old winners of 1923 and seventh among the winners of all ages. . BEAU BUTLERS GOOD SHOWING. More important than this, his Golden Jubilee Derby candidacy considered, he showed in this Pimlico race all the quality a Derby hope should have. Taking the lead from fifteen opponents half a mile out he beat them with his head swinging. Rustic, Aga Khan, Transmute, Modest, Diogenes, Senator Norris, Lord Baltimore II., Fabian and Sun Flag were behind him as he went past the judges. He looked in this Maryland Futurity like a colt that would go on any distance under weight. He is powerful of physique and his legs are good. This fleet son of Black Toney is one of four or five colts and fillies Bradley did not rush last spring and summer to the end that he might have some sound and fresh three-year-olds for the coming season. Such patience merits reward. It is rare in American horse racing nowadays. There will be no appreciable improvement in American three-year-old racing until it becomes a common practice. Keeping in mind a declaration of Bradleys at Pimlico when he was being showered with congratulations on Beau Butlers success will be well worth while. This declaration was that Beau Butler was not the best of the youngsters he had "held back. A better colt than Beau Butler would deserve to be an overwhelming favorite in the Golden Jubilee Derby, notwithstanding the claims of such as "Wise Counsellor, St. James and Sarazen. Possibly racing will discover that it has erred if it fails to take the Bradley pronouncement seriously. Mr. Bradley is notoriously open in his racing operations and outspoken about his horses. He is one of a growing group of American sportsmen who regard their thoroughbreds as public trusts and are. properly jealous of their reputations. Other Bradley two-year-olds that won better than passing notice last year were Befuddle, Bob Tail and Baffling. Prominent among the other producers with Golden Jubilee Derby candidates of home breeding are H. G. Bedwell, Harry Payne Whitney, Alfred Hennen Morris, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, William Woodward and Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Possibly there is among colts and fillies which raced in the Whitney colors last year Transmute, Gonfalon, Swingalong, Klondyke, Whiskalong, Miss Whisk, Initiate, etc. a horse of Dcrby caliber, but none of them showed enough under silks in New York and Maryland to win such consideration as Upset, John P. Grier, Dominant. Thunderer, Wildair, Tryster, Prudery and Enchantment had in Derbys in which they were beaten. Senator Norris, Cudgels best son, was bred by Bedwell in Maryland while the management of Cudgels stud operations was in his hands. Saved from early two-year-old racing which is destructive of tendons and feet. Senator Norris came through brilliantly in Marlyland last fall. In one of the divisions of the Walden, a 0,000 two-year-old race of one mile, Senator Norris defeated a band that included Lady Belle, Big Blaze, H. T. Waters, Sun Flag; Lord-Baltimore II. and Gonfalon. He is of the family on the distaff side of the celebrated Artful, greatest of American thoroughbred racing mares. Wintering in Maryland ho is in the hands of a master trainer, the same who handled Cudgel through several successful years and developed Sir Barton. In 1909 and from 1912 to 1917, inclusive, Bedwell was the most successful of American horse trainers. Rustic, a product of the long famous stud of the Waldens, also Maryland-bred, is to bear the scarlet jacket of Alfred Hennen Morris, under which such lliers of the past as The Friar, Bowling Brook, Mirthful, Yankee, Russell, Correction and Reckton won j renown. Winning the Great American renewal at Aqueduct in June, Rustic, a son of Transvaal, showed conspicuous distance running merit again in the autumn. WOODWARDS AGA KHAN. William Woodward of New York, who is ! breeding first class horses at Belair farm in j Maryland on which thoroubreds were reared j and developed in the eighteenth century by j Samuel Ogle and Benjamin Tasker, colonial i governors of the old line state, hopes to be represented in the Jubilee Derby by Aga I Khan, a son of Omar Khayyam, the Derby j winner of 1917. Aga Khan appeared to be i the best of Omar Khayyams first crop of two-year-olds. I Diogenes, son of Ballot and Smoky Lamp, I will race for Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords of j Philadelphia: He was bred by Mrs. Jeffords j ir. Kentucky at Faraway farms, the abiding place now of Man o War, Americas "horse j of the century." Man o War is owned by ; Samuel D. Riddle, Mrs. Jeffords uncle and j foster father. Diogenes was a first class colt at Saratoga last August when he won a re-. vival of the rich Hopeful Stakes. He is j training at Glen Riddle farm on Marylands eastern shore, where Man o AVar trained in the winter and early spring of 1920 for his brilliant three-year-old triumphs. Mr. Kilmer, one of New Yorks considerable producers, sold much of his best prospective Derby material at public auction at Belmont Parle last spring. But he kept one promising colt in Mint Briar, son of Assagai and Sweet Briar and a half-brother of Sun ! Briar. Mint Briar was bred at Sun Briar I Court farm in Broome county, Ne.w York, j He was at his best at Belmont Park last j June when he won the Keene Memorial Stakes. It was Mr. Kilmer who won the Derby of 191S with Exterminator, which has since become Americas thoroughbred long distance running champion. He bought Exterminator at the eleventh hour, after Sun Briar, half-brother of Mint Briar, his Golden Jubilee hope, had suddenly collapsed in training.
