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1 PASS WELL - NAMED COLT Horsemen at Lexington Consider Son of Thunderer Derby Material Refuse Quick Profit. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 17. The colt Joe G. Chinn, of Lexington, and Dr. E. T. Plun-kett, of Covington, plan to start in the Kentucky Derby Is well named. His moniker is I Pass and he is by Thunderer, from Two No Trumps. I Pass never has started, but the experts who have looked him over at the old association track at Lexington say he will do. The new racing firm bought the colt from Charles G. Berryman and were offered a profit of ,000 on him directly after purchasing him. Alex Gordon, who is training Sweeping Light and Makulu for the Kentucky Derby and about all the important stakes in the East, said that May 7 was about the best date which could have been selected for the Kentucky Derby. He asserted that if a trainer could not get his charge ready by May 7 it is a sure thing he could not get the same ready for the Preakness a week later. The date argument is rather ridiculous, according to the lanky Scot. Pompey must have been a dead fit horse when he won the Wood Stakes at Jamaica in 1926. That was decided before May 8. Gallant Fox also won the Wood in 1930, as he did the Preakness and Kentucky Derby in succession. Bostonian finished third in the Wood in 1927 to Saxon and Black Panther. He won the Preakness that year and when he came out a week later to run in the Derby he finished out of the money. Essare won the Wood in 1929, but he was badly beaten in the Derby. Essare must have been fit, else he. would not have won the Wood.
