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WORLDS FAMOUS EPSOM DERBY Twenty-Four Three-Year-Olds to Vie for Supremacy in Englands Greatest of All Classic Races Two American-Owned Candidates EPSOM DOWNS, England, May 30. The worlds famous Epsom Derby will be run here tomorrow. While the withdrawal of Princess De Faucigny-Lucinges, French invader Rodosto, from the Derby field robbed the race of much international flavor and interest, it has not changed the open aspect of this years Epsom classic. The renewal tomorrow promises one of the most intriguing races of the present century. The eleventh hour scratching also of John A. Dewars Lochiel, winner of the Craven Stakes this 1 spring, at Newmarket, reduced the Derby field to twenty-four, and left the veteran horseman Steve Donoghue, the rider of six Derby winners, without a mount, t f j EPSOM DERBY FIELD Horse. Jockey. Odds. Manitoba G. Richards. . 6-1 Hyperion T.Weston.... 21-2 Young Lover R. Ferryman. 100-9 King Salmon H. Wragg 100-8 Scarlet Tiger A. Wragg 13-1 Light Sussex P. Donoghue. 100-7 Felicitation C. Elliott 100-6 i f Statesman B. Carslake. . 18-1 Happy Call K. Gethin.... 18-1 I Gino M. Beary 28-1 Interlace W. Nevett 33-1 Melfort C. Ray 33-1 Cay Manas .1. Martin 40-1 Raymond F. Lane 40-1 i Franz Hals T. Burns 45-1 Madagascar T. Bartham.. 50-1 Thrapston W. Wells 50-1 ! Lovers Walk J. Childs. 66-1 Solar Boy J.Collins 66-1 tMyosotis R. Jones 66-1 Blue Grass F. Fox 66-1 Tappence D. McGuigan. 150-1 Corvado tAmerican owned. ... .-.-...--.----..-.--,4 Lord Woolavingtons Manitoba, champion juvenile colt last year, again is first choice in the betting, a distinction that the son. of Manna held in the winter books. Manitoba will be piloted by Englands premier jockey, Gordon Richards. He is riding in splendid form this season, and has high hopes of winning his first Derby. Lord Derbys Hyperion, winner of the Chester Vase and one of two horses in the race to win over the full Derby course, is a well backed second choice, while the same owners Thrapstone is one of the outsiders. If either horse should win, it will be the third success for the house of Stanley. The race itself was named after the twelfth earl of Derby, who won it in 1787, eight years after the Epsom Classic was first run. Then came a gap of centuries until the present Lord Derby won with Sansovino in 1924. Lord Durhams Scarlet Tiger, stablemate of Hyperion and Thrapstone, fifth choice in the betting, is considered by some New Market critics a better Derby candidate than his stable companions. The surprise Newmarket Stakes winner, Sir Albert Butts Young Lover, one of three Derby starters that trainer Frank Butters Continued on tioenty-fourth page. I i - WORLD FAMOUS EPSOM DERBY Continued from first page. will saddle, the others being the Aga Khans Felicitation and Gino, is preferred on public form, though in some gallops and workouts Felicitation is reported to have given the greatest satisfaction. Young Lover, bred to race this exacting course, is the third choice in the betting, while Felicitation is favored by a wide margin over Gino. Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owens King Salmon, runner-up in the One Thousand Guineas and Newmarket Stakes, is a firm fourth choice. This consistent son of Salmon Trout, half-brother to the 1930 Derby winner, Blenheim, should prove a hard horse to beat. Others in tomorrows Derby field well sup- ported are Maj. C. Behrens Light Sussex and J. E. Marshalls Happy Call, whl-jh are rated surprise possibilities. The American-owned colt, Victor Emanuels Statesman, is another conceded a better chance than his most recent efforts indicate. The French-owned Interlace and the -Irish-owned and bred Harinero, brother to the 1929 Derby-St. Leger winner, Trigo, are .the best outsiders in this very open classic, which will be contested for the 450th tlme-
