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£ • BLUE LARKSPURS ABSENCE HOMEWOOD, 111., June 15.— E. R. Bradley, owner of Blue Larkspur, had fully intended shipping his crack colt to start in the American Derby after his Belmont Stakes triumph, according to a verbal message to Col. Matt J. Winn, sent by E. R. Bradley. The message was conveyed by Phocion Howard, who informed Mr. Winn that Mr. Bradley regretted the failure to ship the colt here. The causes for him not coming was that Blue Larkspur, in addition to numerous cuts about his hind legs, suffered injury to his left eye by the lodgment of a pebble in it during the running of the Belmont Stakes. It was late Monday night before the optie could be opened and the pebble removed. Blue Larkspur showed a temperature of 101 the following day and it was then definitely decided not to ship the colt here.
