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GELDINGS IN KENTUCKY DERBY , Score Expected to Be Among Eligi-Wes for Louisville Race. Allenfern, Our Fancy, Springsteel and Min-ton Highly Bated Three Geldings Won Coveted Prize. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. . 1 The ninety-six colts and fillies nominated for the Preakness Stakes comprised about all the best of the three-year-olds in the country and some half dozen more than were named last year, when Mate was the winner. While the nominations for the Kentucky Derby will not close until midnight, February 3, and probably not be officially the list will include about all of the worth-not be far out of the way to conjecture that the list will inrlude about all of the worthwhile ones named for the Preakness, in addition to a number of geldings, which are barred under the conditions of the Pimlico race. That the Kentucky Derby is to be decided on May 7, a week preceding the Preakness this year, will hardly cause owners of three-year-olds to eschew entering them in the Kentucky race. That such geldings as Allenfern, winner of nine races and one stake; Bahamas, winner of four races, including two stakes; Caryldon, winner of four races and one stake; Count Bruno, four wins and one stake; Delivered, four wins and one stake; Dexterity, two wins and one stake; Don Romiro, one stake; Fred Almy, eleven wins and one stake; Mad Somers, two wins and one stake; Minton, six wins and one stake. Our Fancy, four wins and one stake; Sharp Thoughts, eight wins and two stakes, and Springsteel, four wins and one stake, will likely be named for the Kentucky Derby, in addition to many more geldings which showed much class as two-year-olds. How many nominations the Kentucky Derby will have this year is merely a guess. The Derby this year will be particularly attractive to owners of three-year-olds, not only for its value, but from the fact that it carries more honors and has always been the greatest horse race in America. Since 1918 there have been three geldings which won the Kentucky Derby. Exterminator won the coveted race that year and who is it that will say that "Old Bones" was not about the greatest horse this country ever produced? Two years after Exterminator splashed through the mud and slush in front of Escoba and Midway, the good gelding Paul Jones, Ral Parrs Maryland star, beat a good band in the Derby, with Upset second and On Watch third. The latter is possibly the sire of the next Derby winner in either Tick On or On Post. Ten years later saw the little Man o War gelding, Clyde Van Dusen, defeat, oyer a difficult course, one of the very best bands of three-year-olds which could be mustered. Who knows but that one of the twenty; or more geldings which will be named for; the Derby this year might not be returned the winner? There are several such as Our, Fancy, Minton, Springsteel, Delivered and Allenfern which will attract much backing if they should be fortunate enough to get; to the post. Allenfern proved to be a good" gelding after he was developed and sold by Johnny Jones at Douglas Park last spring. In the fall he was close up to many of the better class of two-year-olds in Maryj land and those who have an eye on hini say he has filled out into a good looking three-year-old. j Our Fancy was highly considered by hid owner, Rome Respess, last summer and woilj a stake race at Latonia pitted against tha very best of the two-year-olds at that poput lar track. Mr. Respess reports Our Fancy has wintered well and will be put into train ing shortly. He will be trained this sprintfl at Churchill Downs hv C. "H. "TnW aiat
