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LABELED WORTH WATCHING - Five Young Thoroughbred Developments of Winter Racing. High Foot Commands Most Attention Because of Eligibility to Kentucky Derby Siskin Twice Victorious. At least five young horses came out of winter racing labeled "worth watching." They were High Foot, Greyola, Siskin, Prince D Amour and Varider Pool. Siskin, Prince D Amour and Vander Pool are two-year-olds. High Foot, of course, is attracting the most attention right now as he is eligible for the Kentucky Derby and his winter showing was so good that he has been cut a few points in one of the future books and is now one of the several equal choices. High Foot was not started in a stake race during the winter other than the Derby Trial Handicap, his handlers having had all along higher ambitions for him than winning winter stakes, but he proved conclusively that he was the best three-year-old on the ground at Xew Orleans by running away from Michigan Boy in the Derby Trial and it was Michigan Boy which, three weeks later, won the Louisiana Derby. Greyola won the Agua Caliente Derby after several other impressive showings and in this Derby decisively defeated the best colts at the track. Greyola was not nominated for the Kentucky Derby. Siskin commands more attention at the present time than the other two-year-olds mentioned as he is scheduled for early activities in Maryland. He won his only two" starts. His second was in the Agua Caliente Futurity, which brought to the post a field of seventeen which included nearly every two-year-old that had accomplished anything sines the first of the year. He won his first-start from a smaller group of the same quality. Prince DAmour won the Louisiana Juvenile Slakes and, although leading throughout and winning by six lengths, established a new Fair Grounds track record of :34?j; for three-eighths of a mile. This record had stood since 1922. The Boyal Canopy gray colt accomplished something else in this victory. The Theo. Cook colt. Bill Morris, had been undefeated up to that time. He had won four in such convincing manner that in the stake in which Prince DAmour outran him he went to the post so heavily backed that had he won he would have paid less than 1 to 2. Bill Morris had very poor racing luck in this event, but, had he been much more fortunate in the running, it is not reasonable to suppose that he could have offered very serious opposition to the winner, since when he was nosed out for third place he still was seven and a half lengths behind the flying Prince DAmour. Like Siskin, Prince DAmour won his only two races of the winter. The first he ran in even :35 for the three furlongs and was never hard pressed. Another sterling time performance by a young racer during the winter was one by the filly, Martha Mae, at Agua Caliente. She ran a three-eighths race in :34 flat, the latter part of January. This brought her into the limelight for a while but she performed indifferently in subsequent races. Vander Pool was clearly the champion of the two-year-olds in Florida. He sprinted away from his field in the Miami Juvenile Stakes, which was run on a heavy track, and won by eight lengths. Previously he had won two races almost as easily, and these were his only three starts. Vander Pool is a son of Campfire, from Bramble Rose. He is owned by Mrs. M. P. Allen. Prince dAmour is owned by Joseph Leiter. Siskin, by Epinard Ruddy Light, is the property of the Xevada Stock Farm Stable. Greyola belongs to Mrs. J. A. Co-burn. High Foot, which will carry the colors of the Xevada Stock Farm Stable in the Kentucky Derby, is the chief topic of conversation among horsemen and racing fans who took in the winter meetings at Xew Orleans. It seems agreed by them that the only object his owners had in keeping him out of the Louisiana Derby was to play safe and run no risk of anything which might interrupt his progress toward the big event at Churchill Downs. They say that he came out of his comparatively little winter racing in highly satisfactory condition. High Foot started three times at Xew Orleans. He was beaten the first time, finishing third to Black Cloud and Whileaway in a three-quarters race run in the comparatively poor time of 1 :13, but it was not a fair sample of his ability. It was the first time he had been out since last June, when he raced at Washington Park. He met with misadventure soon after the start, stumbling and then being forced wide when he was about to regain some of his lost motion. He gave a demonstration of his real class the next time he started when he defeated Lightning Jones by four lengths at three-quarters of a mile in 1:11. He was carrying little weight, it is true, but when he went in tha Derby Trial Handicap he picked up about eight pounds and won still easier from Michigan Boy and Lightning Jones, which were conceding him weight, but not enough to have altered the result materially. The Derby Trial was a mile race. High Foot was going away in the stretch in the heavy going, which was supposed to be entirely suitable to his two adversaries. The mile was run in 1 :407s. very good time considering the condition of the track and the lack of competition for the lead. Lincoln Plaut, who charted High Foots races this winter, as well as some of those he ran as a two-year-old, agrees with other close observers of the colt that he gives every promise of going a route and of standing up with the best of his division during the coming summer season.
