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AMERICAN DERBYNEXT Gallant Fox and Whichone Not Coming for Famous Event Field to Be Larger as Result of Their Absence Race Con sidered Most Open One NEW YORK N Y June 9 Gal ¬ lant Fox will not be sent to Chicago to fill his engagement in the American Derby next Saturday This decision was announced though it was not ex ¬ pected the son of Sir Gallahad III would be sent away from home again until he goes for the Classic at the Arlington Park course on July 12 12The The colt came out of the Belmont Stakes as he has come out of his other triumphs none the worse for his great gallop and as a matter of fact he looks better than when he was brought to the races by Fitzsimmons FitzsimmonsIt It is probable that his next big en ¬ gagement will come in the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct That is a one mile and a half race as was the Bel ¬ mont and he will have to concede four pounds to Whichone by reason of what he has already accomplished His weight will be 126 while the Whitney colt will be asked to carry 122 pounds poundsWhichone Whichone will not be sent to Chicago for the American Derby Saturday and it will make the Dwyer Stakes the next engagement the two have in com ¬ mon They are also both engaged in the Classic HOMEWOOD 111 June 9 Definite word reached Washington Park this afternoon that neither Gallant Fox nor Whichone would be shipped here for the American Derby next Saturday The principal reason advanced for the failure of their owners to send their crack colts here to try for Chicagos famous race was because there was not sufficient time for Gallant Fox and Whichone to recover from the strenuous mile and a half race in the Belmont Stakes last Saturday before being called upon for additional preparation for another gruelling contest in the American Derby While there is general regret that neither Gallant Fox nor Whichone will be among the contestants in the outstanding race of the Washington Park meeting the con ¬ sensus of opinion is that the American Derby is too great an American fixture to lose any prestige because of the absence of any particular horse or horses The field cer ¬ tainly will be larger and without question the race will be a most open one with the winner a logical claimant for threeyearold championship honors honorsGALLAXT GALLAXT ICSIGHT ARRIVES ARRIVESImportant Important happenings in American Derby circles during the past twentyfour hours included the arrival at Washington Park of Gallant Knight Reveille Boy and Plucky Play The trio in company with the older filly Easter Stockings arrived this morn ¬ ing from Thistle Down where Gallant Knight and Reveille Boy started in the first running of the Cleveland Derby two days ago Plucky Play shipped from here for the race did not start due to the muddy condition of the track trackTrainer Trainer Kay Spence who personally super ¬ vised the transfer of the Jones horses stated that in his opinion Gallant Knight was not suited by the watery condition of the Thistle Down track He is confident that under more favorable conditions the son of Bright Knight will prove a formidable factor if not the winner of the American Derby and thus add to his accomplishments for the year which include a victory in the Fairmount Derby and second DerbyThat to Gallant Fox in the Kentucky Derby That track conditions for the Cleveland race also were against Reveille Boy was expressed by John Paul veteran trainer of the son of Last Reveille This colt was sec ¬ ond to Gallant Knight in the Fairmount Derby DerbySALMOX SALMOX EXTJHES CO3II G GAccording According to a communication from Walter J Salmon a division of the stable embrac ¬ ing six head and presumably including the good threeyearolds Swinfield and Snowflake probable starters for the American Derby will leave Belmont Park Tuesday arriving at the Homewood track twentyfour hours later laterSnowflake Snowflake recent winner of the American Coaching Club Oaks will a week following the American Derby start in the 10000 added Illinois Oaks another Washington Park feature featureWalter Walter Taylor trainer of H P Headleys Kentucky Oaks winner Alcibiades let it ba known that that good daughter of Supremus will be in readiness for Saturdays race Under present plans she will start barring the presence of Gallant Fox in the field Continued on twentieth page Continued from first page It is believed that W R Coes Maya and Caruso may be sent here for the race Maya finished second to Dixie Lad in the Cleve ¬ land Derby Saturday and Caruso is at Bel mont Park Sydney owned by J N Camden decisively defeated in the Cleveland Derby is an extremely doubtful starter here Satur ¬ day The gelding has failed to race up to his early spring form and private trials and trainer D E Stewart may decide upon a rest for the son of Craigangower Tuesday afternoon Stewart will start Mr Camdens Culloden and Ladrone also eligible for the American Derby in a race with such others among the candidates for Saturdays feature as Prince Atheling Ned O Tannery and Plucky Play and a creditable showing by either or both may result in their trying for the American Derby DerbyThe The Tuesday race or Derby Trial will be decided over a distance of one mile and seventy yards and is so placed as to provide ideal opportunity for the candidates to re ¬ ceive their final Derby preparation in com ¬ petition While small the prospects point to a good race and the result may take from or add to the probable Derby array arrayPrince Prince Atheling the Atheling II colt owned by John Marsch local owner had his final training for the trial today when he ran a half mile over a slow track in 49 The same training period witnessed Galaday R S Clarks daughter of Sir Gallahad III and among four fillies in the probable Derby field going one mile in 1 45 while Michigan Boy went a half mile in 51 easily and may be given a more exacting work Tuesday TuesdayOver Over a heavy track Sunday morning W T TWaggoners Waggoners Broadway Limited the maiden maidenson son of Man o War traversed seveneighths seveneighthsin in 1 140T3 40T3 a creditable move over the stiff I stiffI track trackJames James Fitzsimmons trainer of Gallant Fox and others that include Mrs H C Phipps and J Ogden Mills Hornpipe and Erin Mon ¬ day afternoon advised Washington Park offi ¬ cials that while Gallant Fox will not come West he is sending Hornpipe to accept for the American Derby and Erin to start in the Illinois Oaks a week later laterHornpipe Hornpipe a bay son of Chantry and Bal ¬ ance is highly regarded by Fitzsimmona and in his present fine condition may prove a formidable contender Erin also a bay by Transmute from Rosie OGrady is a stake winner and adds smartly to the brilliant field assembling for the Oaks OaksW W A Crawford in charge of Willis Sharpe Kilmers Dark Sea which was third in the Cleveland Derby advised that he is bringing the son of Traumer from Thistle Down to fill his American Derby engagement Two other of the Kilmer horses will accompany the threeyearold and Frank Coltiletti is to ride him in Saturdays race
