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DERBY ELIGIBLES ON VIEW High Foot Gallant Knight and Others May Start Saturday Prospects Most Encouraging for Large and andHigh High Class Field Starting in 1930 1930Kentucky Kentucky Oaks LOUISVILLE Ky May 7 Candidates for the Kentucky Derby will get their first taste of racing at Churchill Downs in the South Louisville Purse a six and onehalf furlongs race that from all indications will bring together some of the western choices choicesKay Kay Spence trainer of the Audley Farm Stable lias already signified his intentions of sending Gallant Knight to the post while High Foot in his six furlongs breeze on Tuesday received his final preparation for the sprinting dash It is not improbable that Danny Stewart will name Johnson N Cam dens Sydney while Jack Spratt Richard McDonnell Prince Atheling Big Stuff Roll Em Down Dark Entry Maudlin and other lesser lights will help complete the field fieldAlthough Although on the ground it is hardly likely that Tannery will be a starter His last race was over the one mile and onesixteenth and according to the latest information it lias been decided not to start Tannery before the Derby DerbyBuckeye Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru the Brad ¬ ley pair will not be seen under silks until the Derby According to present arrange ¬ ments they will be sent to the Downs from Idle Hour Farm the first of next week Both will have their final trial over the local track At the same time trainer H J Thompson will send several other racers to contest in the overnight races Reports from Idle Hour Farm state that Buckeye Poet and Breezing Thru came out of their Au Revior engage ¬ ment in good condition Although Buckeye Poets race was a disappointment Colonel Bradley was highly elated over the showing of Breezing Thru Twice last year Buckeye Continued on twentieth page DERBY ELIGIBLES ON VIEW Continued from first page sensation in his trials still has something Poet sullced in his races and though he ap ¬ peared to have changed his temperament dur ¬ ing his private trials it was nothing more than trainer Thompson expected He was kept far out of the race for the half mile and although eager to run he was held un ¬ der good restraint In his Derby engage ¬ ment jockey Legere probably will be given different instructions instructionsFor For the first time in the last several years the Kentucky Oaks will bring together some of the best threeyearold fillies in training With more than a score of the gentler sex in training at the Downs several of which beat the best colts last season the race for the 10000 added over the one mile and one furlong which is carded for closing day May 31 will engage probably a field of fifteen or more moreA A survey of the fillies quartered at the Downs reveal such outstanding ones as Gala day Niato Mania Patricia Ann Honey Lo ¬ cust Vermiculite Tishybo Ruth Mayes Chelys Lady Fingers Henriette Hardies Lady Consul Bellicent Star Lassie Rich Widow Miss Alabama Elizabeth Kennedy Supryse Dixie Dreamer Betty Barrett and Midsolea In addition to these Lillabelle is due at the Downs during the next fortnight She will come in the same car with Wood ¬ craft Miller Henderson is conditioning the daughter of Buchan for the Audley Farm Stable Alcibiades which failed to show her twoyearold form in the Ashland and Pim ¬ lico Oaks will arrive from Maryland in time to be prepared for the Kentucky Oaks Flim ¬ sy which won the Pimlico fixture probably will be sent here for her engagement but in the event she is reserved for the Coaching Club Niato which Mose Goldblatt has here for Harry Payne Whitney will be a worthy representative She lost two close decisions in the Camdeii Handicap and Ashland Oaks That kind of misfortune can not pursue her always alwaysThe The Everglade Stable will have a repre ¬ sentative They purchased from John S Wallace the speedy Patricia Ann with win ¬ ning an Oaks in view Patricia Ann was the downfall of Manta and Alcibiades in the Ashland Trying to keep step with the daughter of Whiskaway they were raced into exhaustion before the real running came It was her second start of her career and that the fast journey did not hurt her was demon ¬ strated in her next engagement when she triumphed over a field of sprinters at Lexing ¬ ton tonManta Manta is being prepared for the race Trainer Heimie Cavanaugh stated that the daughter of Cudgel was going along nicely and would fill her engagement engagementRegardless Regardless of the field they will have to reckon with Galaday She went into winter quarters as one of the best fillies of last year Only bad racing luck kept her from winning the Breeders Futurity She is near racing now and with four weeks to prepare her for the one mile and one furlong race trainer Baker will have the Clark filly ready for the question
