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! i f i i s 1 i j ■ t , : » I | i , i , FAIRMOUNT DERBY JUNE 2 » Stars of Three -Year-Old Division Eligible for Rich Feature. » _ One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Nominations Received — Whitney Names Victorian and Six Others. ♦ COLLINSVILLE, 111., April 14.— With 129 nominations, which include all of the outstanding three-year-olds now racing or in preparation for racing this year, the Fair-mount Derby, the 5,000 feature of the spring meeting of the Fairmount Jockey Club looms upon the turf horizon as one of the most important of the seasons three-year-old contests. In class and number of eligibles the rich race will compare favorably with the long established stakes of the older race courses and it is freely predicted that the third renewal of the Fairmount Derby will provid one of the greatest races of this year. This stake will be run Saturday, June 2, with sufficient time intervening between the running of the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky Derby to permit of the participation in this contest of the out-standing contestants in those older prizes. As in the two previous runnings of the Fairmount Derby, the race will again attract considerable interest, for in addition to the many American-bred horses named, the list of nominations includes a number of English breeding, several of which raced in that country most successfully as two-year-olds, some from Canada and one that was bred in Germany. Indications are that the Fairmount Lerby will again provide the sectional rivalry, as between eastern and western owners, that the two previous runnings of the race have witnessed. Since all of the most prominent owners have nominated their best three-year-olds, it may be expected that the result of this race will have an important bearing in determining the champion three-year-old of 192S. From the East. Harry Payne Whitney has named the great colt Victorian and six others ; J. R. Macomber has named Petee-Wrack : the Brookmeade Stable. Brooms ; the Rancocas Stable, Nassak, Ariel, Mowlee and two others ; W. A. Harriman for his Arden Farm, Sun Edwin ; A. H. Cosden, Vito : A. C. Schwartz, Sortie ; the Wheatley Stable. Distraction : the Le Mar Farm. Misstep ; Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Sun Beau : Salubria Stable, Strolling Player and Knapsack, and Sagamore Stable. Night Life. From Canada, the Seagram Stable has named Eugene S. The Mid-Wrests hopes will rest upon such horses as Mrs. John D. Hertz Reigh Count, Audley Farms Sister Ship. C. E. Durnells Irish Pal, Kenton Farm Stables Typhoon, Polk Laf-foons Republic, E. B. McLeans Toro, Phil Reuters German-bred Galahad. L. Water-burys Penalo and the Three Ds Stock Farms English-bred Stamford. From the far West the Canyon Stable, of which the former fight champion. Jack Dempsey, is part owner, has named Doctor Wilson, the winner of the Tijuana Derby of this year. General Diskin, the runner-up to Doctor Wilson in the Tijuana Derby, has been named by Marvin L. Allen, and the good colt Jack Higgins, winner of the Louisiana Derby and, more recently, the winner of the Capitol Stakes at Bowie, has been nominated by Wm. J. Curran.
