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I • j , ] , ; 1 i I I i ! 1 I EXTRA PRIZE NEVER WON i -♦ ,000 Bonus in Latonia Derby for • Kentucky Derby Winner • Sir Huon Last Winner of Two Blue Grass i Derbys— Predict Brilliant Field This Year. ♦ LATONIA, Ky., May 29.— Unless present plans misscarry, practically the same field that started in the fifty-seventh renewal of the Kentucky Derby will race in the forty- : ninth running of the Latonia Derby. Clyde : Van Dusen has arranged to send Charles | T. Fishers Sweep All here for the race, un- j less he fails to come out of his American Derby engagement in good condition. The added ,000, which goes to the winner in | case he also has won the Kentucky Derby, . would swell the earnings of Twenty Grand, j if Mrs. Payne Whitney decides to ship the . son of St. Germans to Latonia. But the * association has never been called upon to j give away the additional prize since it was | first offered. No Kentucky Derby winner has had his number hung up since Sir Huon carried the colors of the late George Long ] to victory in 1906. That was before the time . of big purses, and Sir Huon only earned ,095 and had only Lady Navarre to beat. i The gallop of one mile and a half fills the j important spot on the opening day program j of the thirty-one-day meeting, which gets j under way June 27 and continues to August I. Carrying an added value of 5,000 and the chances of an additional ,000, the race, j over the real Derby distance, attracted 104 when the nominations closed April 2. . It is one of the six stakes to be decided c and, coming after the running of the Ameri- A can Derby and Belmont Stakes and before j the Classic at Arlington Park, it probably j will draw the best of the three-year-old divi- s sion. George White is expected here with the j Audley Farms Knights Call. Trainer Kay Spence left the son of Bright Knight as j well as seven others at Louisville when he j sent thirty others to Washington Park last x week. Knights Call injured himself shortly . before the running of the Agua Caliente Derby and failed to come around in time for c the Kentucky Derby. Spence believed he f could have him ready for the American Derby, but decided not to rush the colt. He reserved him for the Latonia race. Spence saddled the winner of the 1930 g race in Gallant Knight and that son of 1 Bright Knight demonstrated during the re- s cent Churchill Downs meeting that he prob- a ably would be the best handicap horse of g the 1931 season. f J. B. Respess arragned today to send six horses to Bainbridge Park in charge of A. M. Jacobus. Jacobus, who yearly campaigns a several of the horses for the master of High- f land Farm at Havana, will have the services of jockey W. Gooler. Smith Baker arrived from Churchill Downs with Helen Bond, Anna Beall, Up- t dike, Judge Murphy, Perfect Model, Col. Bob, Leader and the two-year-old Peggy Lehmann. In the same car were Kentucky Ace and three others, the property of A. L. Ferguson. Grand Champion, which came out of his ? Bashford Manor Stakes engagement in good condition, will be pointed for the Cincinnati . Trophy, the 0,000 added race for two-year-old colts and geldings to be decided during ? the coming meeting. Henry Forrest, who is training the Respess two-year-old, as well * as twenty-seven others, said the son of Royal II. and Bonnie Crest had trouble in the a Bashford Manor and after that failed to ex- s tend himself. •
