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AMERCAN DERBY OUTLOOK I ♦ Field to Include Winners of Other I Noted Three-Year-Old Prizes. Brief Review of Stake Successes of Several Prominent Candidates for Washington. Parks Big Race. 1 Barring mishaps and changes in the plans of owners, the most representative field of three-year-olds that has gone to the post in any stake this year will face the barrier in the American Derby, which will be decided at Washington Park June 15. It appears most probable at this time that the renewal of this race as a Washington Park fixture will bring together the winners of the Tijuana Derby, Preakness Stakes, Chesapeake Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Fairmount Derby, Withers Stakes and possibly the winner and some prominent contenders in the Belmont Stakes. These include, likewise, the winners of several of the greatest juvenile staks of 1928. Below is a brief record of some of the stake performances of the most prominent probable starters in the American. Others will appear in later issues : CLYDE VAN DUSEN. H. P. Gardner. Greatest interest will attend his start in the American Derby because of his triumph In the Kentucky Deroy, but this does not necessarily mean that Clyde Van Dusen will be the publics choice. Much depends upon track conditions. The Kentucky Derby was run in a downpour and on a track deep in mud. The highlights of his racing record follow : PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 2-YEAR-OLD. Idle Hour Stakes Won. ,890. American National Futurity Second. ,000. Orphanage Stakes Won. ,925. Breeders* Futurity Third. ,078. Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes Won. 2.-800. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLD. Kentucky Derby Won. 3,950. Grainger Memorial Handicap Third. 11,000. KARL EITEL. J. J. Coughlin. Karl Eitel, playing "second fiddle" to his ■table companion. Roguish Eye. up to the time that colt went wrong in training for the Kentucky Derby, has since loomed up as a strong contender on his own account. He Strengthened his cause reoently when he won the Fairmount Derby. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 2-YEAR-OLD. Chicago Heights Handicap Won. 3,500. Belmont Futurity Unplaced. Prairie State Handicap Won. ,220. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLD. Kentucky Derby Unplaced. Fairmount Derby Won. 3,650. CURRENT. R. S. Clark. One of the best of the 1928 crop of fillies and the most prominent of her sex regarded as a probable starter in the American Derby. She did not get ready in time for the Kentucky Derby if. indeed, she ever was intended as a starter in that event, but she got into action soon afterward and ran third in the recent renewal of the Kentucky Oaks. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 2-YEAR-OLD. Breeders- Futurity Won. 1,231. Selima Stakes Won. 2,370. Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes Second. ,000. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLD. Kentucky Oaks Third. ,000. WINDY CITY F. M. Grabner His progress in training made him a much discussed candidate a short time before the running of the Kentucky Derby and his showing in the race was such as to continue him in high favor. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 2-YEAR-OLD : Chicago Heights Handicap Unplaced. Grant Park Handicap Unplaced. Queen City Handicap Second. ,000. Breeders Futurity Second. ,156. Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes Third. ,000. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLD: Kentucky Derby Unplaced. NAISHAPUR Wilshire Stable He has been one of the most spectacular performers in the three-year-old division, a eolt which soared nearly to the heights in the Kentucky Derby and later, when made an odds-on favorite in the Fairmount Derby, failed ignominiously. There were many who really believed him to have been the best in the Kentucky Derby, when he ran second to Clyde Van Dusen. His record, attracting little or no attention as a two-year-old, is dotted with remarkable performances as a three-year-old. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 2-YEAR-OLD: Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap Unplaced. Queen City Handicap Unplaced. Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes Unplaced. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLD: Tijuana Derby Won. 0,100. Cof froth Handicap Second. ,000. Kentucky Derby Second. ,000. Fairmount Derby Unplaced. VOLTEAR Dixiana Farm Stable Next to Naishapur, the most prominent of the winter colts expected to start in the American Derby. He made a more impressive showing than Naishapur as a two-year-old, but has been beaten by the Wilshire Stable representative in their contests this year. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 2-YEAR-OLD: American National Juvenile Stakes Won. 2,895. Dearborn Stakes Won. ,700. Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap Unplaced. Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap Unplaced. Pimlico Fall Serial No. 1 Second. 00. PRINCIPAL STAKES AS 3-YEAR-OLD: Tijuana Derby Second. ,500. Coffroth Handicap Unplaced. Chesapeake Stakes Won. ,150. Kentucky Derby Unplaced.
