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DERBY RETROSPECT Consideration of Three-Year-Olds in Second Group. Jim Dandys Failure in the West Longus Qualifications Hatrick a Puzzle. 1 In its issue of April 1, Daily Racing Form published past performances and a summary of the records of a number of the better class of Kentucky Derby candidates. Today the performances of a number of those that may be classified as candidates of secondary consideration are given. Some of these are three-year-olds that have been active in winter races. One of these, Jim Dandy, was very highly regarded until so many failures were charged up against him in his racing at Agua Caliente. He opened in one of the future books at very low odds but he started in some six races at the border track and was unplaced in all of them. It is true that he met the fastest company that could be gathered together at Agua Caliente, going several times against older horses of high winter caliber, but in the Agua Caliente Derby, where he had a chance to show what he could do in his own class, he made a miserable showing, and now the odds against him run up as high as 500 to 1. There are some others in todays list that had their opportunities in winter Derbys to show whether they really should be given some consideration for the Derby of all Derbys. One of these is Longus, which finished second in the Agua Caliente Derby. This Waygood colt, owned by the R. C. Stable, ran ten races, beginning with the Arlington Downs meeting in Texas, before competing in the border Derby which was won by Greyola. He was unplaced in only three of these efforts, but he was not a frequent winner. In one race that he did win he showed impressive finishing qualities in coming from a backward position to beat some very fair three-year-olds, getting a head decision over Good and Hot. He displayed the same stretch-running ability in the Derby. He met with some interference on the far turn, where he was in the middle of the field, but came so strong near the finish as to overhaul Hatrick and Tonto Rock and beat the latter out of the place by a nose. STRICTLY WESTERN COLT. Good and Hot, of the Meadowbrook Stable, is another that ran frequently and fairly successfully at Agua Caliente. He finished farther back than Longus and Tonto Rock in the Agua Caliente Derby, but he defeated Tonto Rock in one race in which the latter conceded him several pounds. In another race, when they were more evenly weighted, Tonto Rock defeated him. This colt is strictly a border contribution to the big race as he has never run anywhere else except on the Tijuana and Agua Caliente tracks. Hatrick, a Hand Grenade colt belonging to Baron Long, also ran in the Agua Caliente Derby and was a factor until the very last when he weakened after running close up to the speeding Greyola. He won a very respectable share of his races on the Mexican course and had one winning streak of three races there in which he defeated, among others, Good and Hot, Sidney Grant, Longus and La Eelotte. Battleship, included also in this list, is a son of Man o War, and he, too, had a.chance in a winter Derby. He was very highly regarded as a starter in the Florida Derby and it was with keen disappointment that his backers saw him finished just out of the money. He started well enough but tired. Battleship is owned by W. J. Salmon. He won several races on the Florida tracks. Colonel Bell and Eil-AVeir went in the Louisiana Derby, which was decided only a few days ago, on a muddy track. This is the Derby that Michigan Boy won. Colonel Bell started slowly, went wide and finished gamely in fourth place, but beaten off several lengths. Eil-"Veir was a trailer from the head of the stretch on. UNCERTAIN PROPOSITION. Broadway Limited is another Man o War colt. He attracted much attention last summer at Saratoga, where the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable entered him several times in high class company. He ran in the Saratoga Special, Grand Union Hotel, Champagne and Futurity stakes, but did not fare very well. Chimney Sweep, a Whisk Broom II. colt nominated by II. P. Whitney, was one of the Whitney winter campaigners, and he ran very consistently at New Orleans, but was not a starter in the Louisiana Derby. Buckeye Poet, one of the Bradley nominees, performed well as a two-year-old in Maryland. He was not raced during the winter. This colt is Black Toney. Alvin Ranshaw won a number of races in Kentucky last fall and lias been held in some regard. He was second and unplaced in his last two races at Latonia, both races being won by Try Too, which was prominently mentioned for the Derby until death took him. Gold Step, a Sweep On colt owned by C. W. Moore, performed very consistently in Kentucky. He was kept out of winter racing. Line Rider is another nominee of the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable. He was first pointed for the Louisiana Derby and the stable thought they had the winner of this event, but later changed their plans and shipped him to Agua Caliente, where he finished the winter.
