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j j L R. BRADLEYS DERBY HOPES Master of Idle Hour Farm to Be Represented by Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru-Tannery to Start Saturday LEXINGTON, Ky., April 28. There was an announcement of. high importance to the sport here this afternoon when Barry Shannon, on behalf of Col. E. R. Bradley, let it be known that Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru, which made their first appearances of the year in contest at the Kentucky Association track last Saturday, will carry Col. Bradleys white and green colors in the coming fifty-sixth running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville. I "So pleased is Col. Bradley with the form displayed by Buckeye Poet in his fine winning race with other potential Derby candidates," said Shannon, "that he has ordered him to receive every possible chance in his future preparation for the Derby, and it is not likely that he will again be seen in colors before that important race. "It is true Breezing Thru was not very effective in Saturdays race, but when it is considered that he was disturbed by the trip from Idle Hour Farm and did not settle down at the track during the wait for his engagement, has showing was most satisfactory. "Under present plans Breezing Thru is to start in a race at the local track next Saturday. "It has been decided that Colonel Bradley will not send a representative to Pimlico for the Preakness Stakes." Both colts came out of Saturdays race in fine fettle, Shannon assured, and A. Baker, trainer of E. F. Prichards Tannery, which showed so smartly on the occasion of his 1930 bow the same day, report has it that the son of Ballot suffered no ill effects from the capital performance. Additionally, Baker intimated that Tannery is another destined for his second start of the year in next Saturdays race at one mile and a sixteenth, in which Breezing Thru, Dedicate, Sydney and others from among the best of the western-owned Derby hopefuls will start. J. S. Ward, trainer " and part owner of Dedicate,- revealed that in his opinion he did not do enough with the son of Dodge in his preparation for last Saturdays race, his second. Gold Step, the good looking dark horse" among the Derby candidates quartered at the local track, Sunday morning pleased C. W. Moore, his owner and other of his admirers, when he worked a mile easily in the good time of 1:42. The son of Sweep On was accompanied by Night Cry, the opening three-eighths and Margaret Flynn went with him the final half mile. He ran the quarter in :24, half in :4S and three-quarters in 1:10. In donning colors Saturday Buckeye Poet, a son of Black Toney and Maybird, got into action for the first time since last November, when he concluded his initial campaign with an easy win over Sun Falcon, Skirl, Sistony and five others in one of the less important stakes for juveniles at Pimlico. In all he won two of six engagements as a two-year-old and made his first start on August 7 at Saratoga.
