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LOUISIANA DERBY NOMINATIONS Forty-Four, Including Lucky Tom, Named for the 0,000 Closing Day Feature of Fair Grounds Meeting NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 13. Forty-four three-year-olds, headed by Lucky Tom, winter champion of that division and recent winner of the Jefferson Derby, and including all the best of that age, both here and at the Miami tracks, are eligible for the eleventh running of the 0,000 added Louisiana Derby, to be run at the Fair Grounds on Saturday, March 19, closing day of the meeting. This will mark the first running of the race, a former Jefferson Park feature, at the Fair Grounds, and it is the most val- uaDie ana important or tne stakes to be run during the current meeting. Announcement of eligibles was made today by racing secretary Joseph McLennan, and, while the event will remain open for supplementary subscriptions until March 5, the list of nominees as given out today so completely includes all the qualified and possible candidates that supplementary entries, if any, will.be mighty few. In addition to Lucky Tom, J. J. Robinson, New York patron, is represented by the crack Renaissance, which, like the former champion, is by the now dead Master Charlie, an outstanding winter performer seven years back. This combination is considered the strongest among the eligibles, and, if Lucky Tom suffers no ill-effects from his jaunt to Hialeah Park for the Florida Derby renewal two weeks from today, the Robinson pair, certain participants in the local fixture, will rule favorite for the prize. Springsteel, S. W. Labrots fine home-bred unsexed son of Sir Greysteel and Peeping Star, which has carried on handsomely here this winter and finished second to Lucky Tom in the Jeffersonv Derby and Derby Trial at Jefferson, is another of the flashiest "locals" among the nominees. William Irvine, trainer of the Labrot stable, also named Sir Kendal and Skidmore, but since nominations closed on January 30 sold the latter, also one of Sir Greysteels, which stands at Mr. Labrots Holly Beach Farm in Maryland to the Lone Star Stable. Other of the more successful of the three-year-olds here among the eligibles are: E. R. Bradleys Bertjohn, J. J. Coughlins Camp Douglas, R. A. Fairbairns Sarietta and Continued on second page. LOUISIANA DERBY ENTRIES Continued from first page. Merry Fox, Charles Januskas Sandwrack, Joseph Letters Prince Hotspur, Prince Farthing and Princess Camelia; A. B. Letel-liers Sazerac, A. Pelleteris Colonial Belle, Frank Serembas Defier, P. C. Thompsons Crystal Prince, L. Sindlers Jimmy Sutro, W. T. Waggoner and Sons Texas Knight and Sir Melton, and Mason and Hangers Flaunt. Subscriptions of eight of the leading three-year-olds engaged in Florida racing were received for the rich and coveted race and with several of them being expressly pointed for the feature, the usual intersectional color Is assured. Nominations received from stables at Hialeah Park were: C. V. Whitneys Fatalist and Even Up, R. M. Eastmans Cathop, Howe Stables Scotch Gold, Mrs. Payne Whitneys Espinaca, D. J. Elys Hero-ville, and J. Norris On Sir and Song Hit. Six of the forty-four candidates are fillies, and fourteen of the thirty-eight others are geldings. Perhaps the best of the fillies is Princess Camelia, a double stakes winner tinder the Leiter colors last year and following a long beneficial rest recently put into training for the closing day stake. Other fillies named are Princess A. O., also owned by Mr. Leiter; R. A. Fairbairns Sarietta, A. Pelleteris Colonial Belle, Mrs. Whitneys Tweeney, and H. P. Headleys Village Vamp. Up to this time no filly has triumphed in the race, although several have been placed. Mr. Bradley was the leading nominator with five entries, while Mr. Leiter named four, Mr. Labrot three and Mr. Whitney, Mrs. Whitney, Mason and Hanger, Mr. Fair-bairn and the Messrs. Waggoner are represented by two each. The race, as in each of the ten previous runnings, will be decided over a mile and one-eighth, and weights determined through the following conditions: Weight, 124 pounds Non-winners of 0,000 twice or 0,000 allowed four pounds; ,500 twice or 0,000, six pounds; ,500 twice or ,500 other than claiming, 8 pounds; two races of any kind, ten pounds; and maidens, fifteen pounds. Nominations made before January 30 were at 5 each, and a subscription of 00 must accompany each supplementary entry. Starters pay 00 additional to the winner. On February 27 a number of the leading candidates will have final qualifying tests when they meet at a mile in the ,000 added Derby Trial Handicap, last of the numerous preliminary opportunities for the Derby hopefuls. Nominations for the Derby trial are closing next Saturday. A complete list of the Derby eligibles follows: Bertjohn, Busted, Battling Knight, Battering Ram, Bengal Tiger, Camp Douglas, Waited D., Cathop, Heroville, Sarietta, Merry Fox, Tweeney, Espinaca, Village Vamp, Adsum, Scotch Gold, Sandwrack, Springsteel, Sir Kendal, Skidmore, Prince Hotspur, Prince Farthing, Princess Camelia, Princess A. O., Southland Lad, Sazerac, Lampoon, Huraway, Quando, Colonial Belle, On Sir, Song Hit, Lucky Tom, Renaissance, Defier, Evergold, Jimmy Sutro, Crystal Prince, Texas Knight, Sir Melton, Flaunt, ffhe, Whig Fatalist, Even Up.
