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C. V. WHITNEY. BURNING BURNING BLAZE BLAZE AND AND TOP TOP FLIGHT FLIGHT OUT OUT OF OF DERBY DERBY , • Nash Nash Bros. Bros. Great Great Colt Colt May May Never Never Race Race Again Again After After Being Being Cut Cut Down Down in in Saturdays Saturdays Race Race — — Top Top Flight Flight Not Not Ready Ready for for the the Classic Classic NEW YORK, N. Y., May 2.— It has been definitely decided that C. V. Whitneys Top Flight will not be sent to Louisville to keep her engagement in the Kentucky Derby, for which she was the future book favorite, until her defeat in the running of the Wood Memorial at Jamaica Saturday. The same decision was made regarding the Preakness, to be run a week later. Healey made it positive that Top Flight was not out of training and that she would be raced at Belmont Park, but he has determined to confine her cam paign to filly engagements until later in the year, when, if she measures up to expectations, she will be sent along with the colts. There is no intention of throwing her out of training, it is simply a change in the campaign plans. After the running of the Wood Memorial there was naturally no surprise in this announcement in the plans for Mr. Whitneys filly, even though the announcement did not come until Monday morning. There was another announcement that was a real surprise when William Brennan made known that Curacao, which finished third in the Wood Memorial behind Universe and Economic, would not be a Derby starter. On that race he appeared to be a worthy representative from the Greentree Stable, but it develops that from the beginning the Preakness. and not the Kentucky Derby, has been his objective. He will not go to Louisville for the Kentucky classic. This will mean that the Greentree Stable will have no representative, and it is unlikely that the C. V. Whitney silks will be shown unless there is a change of plans and Mad Frump is sent west to carry the light blue and brown cap. *
