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WASHINGTON PARK TRACK CROWDED WITH HORSES 9 , MEETING OPENS MONDAY * Top Flight and Evening May Start in American Derby. ♦ William Hurley Saving Stall for Bur-goo King — Bradley String Now on the Grounds. » The American Derby, in its twenty-fourth renewal Saturday, June 18, at Washington Park, may bring into competition the turfs greatest fillies, Top Flight, greatest money earner in 1931, and Evening, victor in the Florida Derby and track-record breaker. Top Flight, due to star performances last year, netting her owner 19,000, became the Kentucky Derby favorite this season, but was withdrawn from the race. It is not definite that this daughter of Dis Done— Flyatit will start in the American Derby, but C. W. Hay, general manager, thinks she will be sent to Washington Park for the Derby engagement. There has been more than an intimation, he states, that this plan is under consideration. That George D. Wideners Evening will parade postward in the American Derby is indicated in a letter sent by A. J. Joyner, trainer of the filly, to the management of Washington Park. Word came yesterday from him that he will ship Evening, Tittanita and Sheltered from Belmont Park for early preparation at the Chicago track. Tittanita and Sheltered are eligibles in the Illinois Oaks, one mile and one-eighth, scheduled for decision Saturday, June 4. WIDENER RESERVES STALLS. Tom Young, track superintendent, ha3 been instructed to arrange accommodations for the Widener thoroughbreds. The western division of C. V. Whitneys stable, trained by Mose Goldblatt, is expected to arrive Friday or Saturday at Washington Park. Stalls are in readiness for twenty-five horses that have been racing at Churchill Downs. Angry and Chimney Sweep are eligibles in the Washington Park Handicap, feature attraction of Mondays inaugural of the metropolitan season. Bargello is a Whitney eligible in the Robert M. Sweitzer Handicap, Saturday, May 28, for three-year-olds and over. In the Debutante Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, to be run May 30, Decoration Day, the C. V. Whitney Stable tops all owners, save Willis Sharpe Kilmer, in nominations. Trainer Goldblatt has eight eligibles in Cy-nara. Fretwork, Pantaloons. Darkling, Pukka Heaven, Black Sheep, Pooks Hill and Volette. Top Flight and Pin Tail are Oaks nominees. In the Thomas Curran Memorial, June 11, the Whitney Stable has named ten eligibles, as follows: Angkor, High Wire, Simon, Rapscallion, Caterwaul, Contraband, The Darb, Three Daggers, New Sun and Redress. William Hurley, who is in charge of Colonel Bradleys Idle Hour Farm racers to be campaigned through the Washington Park season, stated that every performer— twenty-two — had shipped in splendid condition. He has a stall awaiting Burgoo King, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner. PITTSBURGHER READY. Pittsburgher, star handicap performer in Col. Theodore E. Muellers Shadybrook Farm outfit, appeared more robust than ever when he was unloaded at Washington Park. Trainer James H. Moody brought eleven others. All are fit to race. Pittsburgher is being pointed for the Robert Sweitzer Handicap. Under colors but once this year, he displayed his remarkable speed by defeating Spanish Play by a nose in the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs. Spanish Play is eligible to start in the Sweitzer. If both go it will be a duel worth while. Clyde Van Dusen, trainer of the Dixiana racers, reports that his band of twenty-seven is fit for the fray. He is expecting good results from the juvenile division. When asked about the High Time gelding, In High, he said: "Hes good, but we have several good ones I cannot say which is best." F. M. Grabner, Chicago sportsman, will Continued on twenty-second page. MEETING OPENS MONDAY Continued from first page. campaign fourteen at Washington Park under the direction of Frank Swain. He will send Slick Fingers to the post in the Debutante Stakes. His Thomas Curran Memorial candidates are Hour Zev, Single Stripe and Our Justice. Jack Pryce, trainer of fifteen horses in W. J. Salmons Mereworth Stud, is pleased with track conditions. The course is better than last season, he thinks. Track superintendent Young believes record-breaking performances will be frequent at the meeting. He announced yesterday that the number of horses at Washington Park and Lincoln Fields has reached more than 1,500 and will total 2,000 by Monday.
