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NOTED STABLES AT H0MEW00D « Bradley and Rancocas Strings Reach Washington Park Course. » Twenty Horses in Kentuckians Band, Including Two American Derby Eligible* — May Jobstown Trainer. ♦ Among the owners of notable racing bands pouring into Washington Park for the first of the metropolitan meetings in Chicago this season Col. E. R. Bradleys and Harry F. Sinclairs Rancocas stables are in the preeminent list. The Bradley band includes twenty horses, also his American Derby eligibles Bar Hunter, bay son of Black Servant — Bit of White, and Barometer, a bay colt by Traumer — Hathor. Another is Mirbat, six-year-old chestnut son of Nouvel An — Obcock, an eligible in the 0,000 Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap, one mile and a quarter, in which eighty-three three-year-olds and over are entered. Among the eligibles are Gallant Knight, Knights Call, Satin Spar, Challenger II., Mike Hall, Swinfield, Don Leon, Jimmy Moran, Scotlands Glory, Prose and Poetry, Jean Lafitte, Sun Beau, Spanish Play, Alexander Pantages, Tannery, Brown Wisdom, The Nut, Lady Broadcast and Lightning Bolt. A BANNER DAY Trainer William Hurley expects to have Bar Hunter and Barometer in readiness for the American Derby. This pair, eligible to start in the last Kentucky Derby, were not sent to the post in the Derby, in which Bradley horses scored a glorious triumph on two occasions — Behave Yourself and Black Servant being one, two in 1921, while Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage repeated in the same order for him in 1926. Bubbling Overs time came within two-fifths of a second of the record made by Old Rosebud, holder of the mile and a quarter Derby record until Twenty Grand lowered the record. Except for a track unsuited to his fancy, Colonel Bradleys Blue Larkspur might have won the Kentucky Derby from Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. He was the Future book and Derby Day choice. In the running of the race he was nosed out of third money by Panchio. Naishapur was second. Blue Larkspurs class, subsequently demonstrated, led him high in the honor list, while Clyde Van Dusen thereafter disappointed. The Rancocas Stable, one of the most spectacular on the American turf in the reign of that peerless trainer, the late Samuel C. Hildreth, sent a brilliant horse to the post in the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Zev, the winner in that year, earned distinction in repeated victories over the best, and with Continued on eighteenth page. NOTED STABLES AT H0MEW00D Continued from first page. such frequency that he gained the top of the list as a money earner. With the passing of trainer Hildreth, Ran-cocas racers passed, in a measure, from stardom, but they are coming back under the masterful handling of Frank Taylor, who was in command of the western division of the stable as a Hildreth lieutenant. Now trainer Taylors aide is Bub May, an old-timer, whose record stamps him as being most capable. He will be at Washington Park to supervise the Rancocas campaign. It is his first western invasion in many years.
