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WITHOUT A REPRESENTATIVE /E • i- Ool. E. R. Bradleys Silks to Be Be Missing From Kentucky Derby. ♦ Bar Hunter and Barometer Declared Out-Five t— Western-Owned Eligibles Considered Sure Starters. » LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 9.— For the first rst time in several years the green and white ite racing silks of Colonel E. R. Bradley will not lot be seen in the Kentucky Derby. He had hoped to entrust Bar Hunter and Barometer er with the silks borne to Derby triumphs by by : Behave Yourself and Bubbling Over, but ,ut the former developed a filling at the right ht fore pastern or fetlock joint after running nB a creditable race in the Preparation Purse se I Friday, and Barometers ] effort in the same ne race was such as to leave no doubt of his lis being far below standard for the severe test ,st ] the coming renewal of the "classic" promises es * to be. Trainer H. J. Thompson today completed ■ arrangements whereby Bar Hunter will be Ije returned to Idle Hour Farm. Barometer, r j in company with Blind Bowboy, will go to to * Belmont Park, where they will join the main in * division of the stable. Barometer and Blind ld i Bowboy will be loaded on Tuesday. A While Fridays race cost the Derby Brad- j. s ley representation, it clinched for Boys i Howdy. Sweep All, Pittsburgher. Spanish ,h Play and Insco places in the "classic" field. d Some or all of the mentioned leading west- ,t_ ern candidates may accept for the Derby y Trial at one mile and one-sixteenth, to be e a run next Tuesday, yet regardless of the le c result of that race all of the named quintet s will line up with the numerous crack east- t. g ern colts at the Derby post. t All of the Kentucky Derby candidates at lt a a Pimlico are scheduled to leave that Mary- P_ v land track for Churchill Downs tomorrow. v- At the same time Morstone is to leave New w York with the Derby course his destination. a- Quarters for Mrs. Payne Whitneys Twen- !_ f ty Grand, Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh h a are set aside in the Greentree Stable barn, j t] while C. V. ° of Whitneys Equipoise will be quar- r. tered in one of the two barns occupied by y * M. the horses in the western division of that lt K youthful sportsmans stable. Mate and others ,s b of the invaders will be put away in fine e and convenient quarters. a Mrs. Whitney candidates come West in n d de charge of James Rowe, while Freddy Hop- ,_ P kins will be here to direct the final prepara- t_ t] tion and saddling of Equipoise and James s Healey will escort Mate. The three trainers s a will travel on the same train, of which the e s two cars of prize horseflesh will be a part I * and Morstone will make the trip from New v York under the personal care of Clarence e s1 Buxton, who developed the crack son of f w Morvich. pi Not unlikely other of the lesser lights s a among the eastern owned aspirants also Q le will reach the Downs Monday. These in- ta elude Aegis, Ladder, Rip Van Winkle and i w Clock Tower. P* Up, Mrs. J. N. Croftons winner of the e Agua Caliente Derby, will be given another r le. chance to qualify for next Saturdays fea- . hl him ture when he races a mile with some of the B H best older company here in the Tyler Hotel j th the Purse on Monday. While he may fail to hi had successfully cope with Mike Hall, Gallant t G Knight and others, a good performance , might serve to keep him in the Derby field. 1° for With the Preakness Stakes decided, the ; *7 full attention of the racing world is focused upon the Derby and with the opening of j •Derby Week" Louisville will be called upon x _ to entertain the vanguard of the thousands , G coming here to witness the great old fixture. er Requests for Derby Day reservations con- . ot out tinue to flood the offices of managing di- . ar and rector Colonel M. J. Winn, resident manager „ th the D. E. OSullivan and their numerous assist- . S1 ants and the usual capacity throng will be , *n here when the field of three-year-olds, one ; in m of the greatest in the record of the prize, J* meet over the Derby mile and a quarter. tn * : __ M
