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ALCIBIADES CHANCES .Many Good Judges Expect Her to Duplicate Regrets Feat. Predictions Made That Headley Filly Will Prove Formidable Contender for Derby. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 31. "A. filly cannot win the Derby," was an assertion often heard during the first forty years of Kentuckys big race. And then in 1915 Regret, a daughter of Broomstick, galloped home head of her field. Another fifteen years has passed and Regrets performance has not been repeated. But there are many sages of the turf who believe that 1930 will tell a different story. Those who think a filly may win the 0,000 ! added Kentucky Derby this year pin their faith to the standard of Alcibiades, the fleet racing dame of the Blue Grass lands. Alcibiades wintered well at Hal Price Headleys farm in Fayette County. She is now quartered at the Lexington track and already has worked five-eighths of a mile in 1:03. She has grown and filled out and looks all over a great race mare. At her best last year Alcibiades showed her heels to everything she faced. She won her first four starts, including the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs and the Clipsetta Stakes at Latonia. She was defeated in her last three starts. In one of these, the Breeders Futurity, at Lexington, she was knocked to her knees just after the start and did not have a chance. In the Kentucky jockey Club Stakes, at Churchill Downs, facing a crack barjd of colts, she took the lead at the rise of the barrier and held command, until the last stride, when Desert Light forged to the front. In her final race in the Selima Stakes, at Laurel, she was off slowly and did not show even a flash of her real form. Notwithstanding her good race in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, Alcibiades was not the filly in the fall she had been in the spring. She was pounds lighter and looked drawn. With a winters rest she has come back to training with the same grand appearance that marked her debut last spring and, if she goes well in her preparation, she will demand the respect of any colt in the country. . Besides the Headley filly, there are others of her sex in the Derby which are worthy of consideration. This applies especially to Stone and Ruckers Lucile and William Woodwards Flying Gal. Lucile won the Hinath, Stakes, at Lexington, and the Debutante Stakes, at Washington Park, as well as a number of purse events. Flying Gal accounted for the Babylon Handicap and the Schuylerville Stakes, among other victories. Other fillies named for the Derby are Bar-telstein and Unnas Heretiz; A. B. Hancocks Sunstroke; Herbert P. Gardners Henriette Hardies ; C. C. and G. Y. Hieatts Star Class ; Ral Parrs Her Grace and Harry Payne Whitneys Niato. Permits have been issued for broadcasting of the Derby by three agencies, the National Broadcasting Association, the Columbian and the Chicago Tribune. Microphones will be installed in towers atop the grandstand and details of the race will be given from these points of vantage by expert callers.
