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TRAINERS PRAISE LUCKY T0j Point to Brilliant Effort Over Oriel Mile With Heavy Weight Up in Jefferson Derby. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 2. Churchill Downs and Douglas Park trainers are loud, in praise of Lucky Toms performance iii the Jefferson Derby. His race was a stand out according to all who have charges In; training for the Kentucky Derby. It was pointed out that Lucky Tom accomplished? something no other Derby candidate has iri the South in years, in that he ran the milef at Jefferson Park w.ith 120 pounds up ia 1:37. Alex Gordon, who bred and sold the sort of Master Charlie and Phyllis Louise as a! yearling at Saratoga to J. J. Robinson fofij the meager sum of ,000, was not at hisj stable at Douglas Park, but is in Florid on a vacation. He had extolled the colt in; such laudatory terms before he started thi year that his comment as to his class wag confirmed. Master Charlie, sire of Lucky Tom, who! recently went the way of all flesh, was a very fast horse, and was considered by good judges as the champion of his two-year-old year. In fact, he was the largest two-year old winner on the American turf in 1924 He won the Tijuana Futurity, Hopeful Stakes and Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes that year. In the spring of 1925 he was on of the future-book choices for the Kentucky Derby, but went amiss in training and nevei? started. That Lucky Tom, as well as Flying Don Renaissance and Uncanny, all sons of Master Charlie, will be nominated for the Ken- tucky Derby, is probable. All these colta were stakes winners as two-year-olds, and now Lucky Tom wins the first derby of the year like a good one. Lucky Tom is admir-i ably bred, although he has no number ac- cording to the Buce Lowe Figure System His sire, Master Charlie, was imported from England by Col. Phil Chinn and sold in thq sales ring at Saratoga for ,000. Master Charlie was of the best blood of England, being by Lord Archer, son ot Spearmint, from Bachelors Choice, a daugh ter of Bachelors Double, by Tredennis Thoroughbreds do not get their Bruce Lowe numbers from their sires. That system hag to do altogether with the matrons or dams The late John E. Madden bred Lucky Tomg dam, Phyllis Louise. She was by Ogdenj from His Sister, by Uncle, the sire of Old Rosebud, one of the greatest American rac$ horses and holder of the Kentucky Derby time record until Twenty Grand wrested it from him. Ballymena was the dam of His Sister, and she dates back through the long line of American matrons to a mare by Janus. Janus was imported to Virginia from England in the pre-Revolutionary War period. His sons and daughters figure in the racing of those days. The American stud book shows Janus as one of the foundation sires of America. Janus was contemporary with Diomed, the first English Derby winner, who was imported to Virginia in the closing years of the eighteenth century and founded the line of Lexington in direct succession.
