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LOUISVILLE Ky May 2 Here is the latest prospective field for the Kentucky Derby Horse Wt Jockey HorsefCavalcade fCavalcade 126 M Garner Garner126D tTime Clock 126D Bellizzi + Bazaar 121 D Meade JBlue Again 126 Agrarian 126C Kurtsinger Discovery 126J Bejshak Speedmore 126 F Horn Mata Hari 121 J Gilbert Riskulus 126 L Humphries Peace Chance 126 W D Wright Sgt Byrne 126 S Renick Spy Hill 126 S Coucci Sir Thomas 126 A Pascuma Singing Wood 126 R Jones ijQuasimodo ThomasvilleijQuasimodo Thomasville Bender First Prince Pompey F Springer IBrookmeade Stable entry JE R Bradley entry Doubtful starters FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN KENTUCKY DERBY FIELD Only Thirteen Now Listed as Sure Starters in Saturdays Race Bazaar Works Mile and a Quarter iii 204 and Riskulus in 2 Q6ls Eastern Invaders Show to Advantage in Fast Trials LOUISVILLE Ky May 2 Having cleared training and qualifying hurdles which have blocked many seeking places at the starting post for the famous Kentucky classic thirteen threeyearolds eleven colts and two fillies today comprised the probable probablealmost almost certain field for Saturdays sixtieth Kentucky Derby Americas premier turf event During the past twentyfour hours Dan Sabath Thomasville Naval Cadet and War Pledge were dropped from the field Dan Sabath Naval Cadet and War Pledge as a result of injuries while Thomasvilles effort in the Preparation Purse yesterday did not suggest Derby quality Pending a definite decision by his owner Thomasville was listed as a probable starter Prince Pompey and Quasimodo also beaten by Peace Chance in yesterdays race and Bender First all well mentioned in connec ¬ tion with the Derby during recent weeks dangled by only a thread in todays forecast of probable starters The thirteen certain to answer the bugle call are Cavalcade Bazaar Mata Hari Agrarian Discovery Speedmore Riskulus Peace Chance Sgt Byrne Blue Again Singing Wood Spy Hill and Sir Thomas This is the same number as started last year and once before 1926 the jinx number accepted for the long staminaproving test Bubbling Over and Brokers Tip two of Col E R Bradleys four winners of the prize won in 1926 and 1933 respectively This was the final work day for all candidates except of course Peace Chance and Blue Again heroes and Chance and Blue Again heroes and the scene were in action also Riskulus dependence of the far West filly carrying the chief hopes of Colonel Bradley for his fifth victory in exactly thirteen years his first score with Behave Yourself having been registered in 1921 1921Bazaar Bazaar turned in a sparkling trial pos ¬ sibly the most impressive of the morning during which Singing Wood Riskulus Speedmore Sgt Byrne and Agrarian also drilled Discovery Cavalcade and Time Clock the last to receive their concluding serious gallops were out between races this afternoon coveredrho Next to Bazaar which covered rho TA K MAX miles in 204 the trial of Riskulus which went the same distance in 206 was the most impressive impressiveSPEEDMORES SPEEDMORES GOOD MOVE MOVESpeedmore Speedmore dark horse of the large in ¬ vading contingent did a good move over one and oneeighth miles when he negotiated rlninWood and arian breezing a mile spectively with Sgt Byrne going seven full longs hard held in 130 fiA ltatement by Her owner to the effect that he did not like her trial notwithstand ¬ ing Bazaar won new admirers by the speedv manner in which she traversed the exact Derby ground Colonel Bradley and his trainer H J Thompson timed the crack daughter of Tetratema in 205 or there ¬ abouts but the skilled professional dockers and a number of horsemen had her in the faster time the last quarter mile in the ex ¬ cellent time of 24 seconds ing the work With her stablemate Blue for the acid test Riskulus working in blinkers for the first a striking performance in which good judges saw ample evidence of what brought him through to victory in the Agua Caliento Derby and into second place back of Gallant Continued on twentyfourth page FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN KENTUCKY DERBY FIELD Continued from first page Sir in the Agua Caliente Handicap With Bobby Warren in the saddle the sturdy son of Stimulus clicked off the furlongs and quarters at an even pace fractionals of time for the long handily accomplished condi ¬ tioner being Quarter in 24 half in 48 threequarters in 114 mile in 140 and mile and oneeighth in 153 153Like Like the Bradley filly Riskulus worked from the quarter post or Derby starting point back to the stand He also cooled out in fine fashion according to his trainer E L Fitzgerald FitzgeraldAlthough Although never fully extended Speedmore the son of Pharamond H which finished second to High Quest in the Wood Memorial Stakes did enough for trainer Clarence Bux ton to describe him as in the pink for Saturdays race On several watches the J H Louchheim candidate was timed in 25 50 116 142 and 154 He pulled the Derby distance in 209 209Agrarian Agrarian and Singing Wood which like Speedmore had hard races last Saturday also were never out of a breeze in their long gallops Singing Wood ran the quarter in 25 half in 50 threequarters in 116 and the mile in 142 with Agrarians quarters in 24 50 116 and 143 George Strate and Jim Healy respective trainers of the Mrs F J Heller and Mrs J Hay Whitney aspirants looked after the colts in the trials trialsAdvance Advance guards of worshippers at the shrine of King Horse came swooping down on Churchill Downs today Come rain or shine the Derby this year will about break all records as far as the crowd is concerned With most every seat of vantage reserved and paid for officials of the jockey club are busy attending to the details of enter ¬ taining the vast concourse which is due here Derby day dayImportant Important personages in the life of the nation politically socially and in a business way will view the Derby Governor Ruby Laffoon with his staff of colonels will be right there in the big doings Derby day In fact Governor Laffoon has been selected to present the golden Derby trophy to the owner of the winning horse horseGeneral General Hugh Johnson of Blue Eagle fame will have a front seat and a tab when the bugle calls the Derby field to the post So will Postmaster General Jim Farley who never misses a Kentucky Derby Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt of New York will be on hand to see his good colt Discovery run in the Derby DerbySo So will Mrs Isabelle Dodge Sloane be pull ¬ ing for her colt Cavalcade to come home in the Blue Ribbon event Mrs Payne Whit ¬ ney and Mrs Frank J Heller New Yorkers will have vantage seats Mrs Joseph Leiter of Chicago Airs J E Madden of Lexing ¬ ton Mrs Hugh Wallace of Washington WashingtonD D C Mrs H A Uhl of St Louis Mrs J B Growl ey of Charleston W Va Col ColE E R Bradley of Lexington J E Widener of Philadelphia Tom Pendergast of Kansas City Charles T Fisher of Detroit and War ¬ ren Wright of Chicago will be among those present presentThousands Thousands of the leaders in social activi ¬ ties throughout the nation have engaged boxes and will entertain their friends Take the register of Whos Who in America thumb its pages and one can get an idea of the number of worthwhile persons included in that Blue Book who will be cheering the sleek thoroughbreds engaged in the Derby from the rise of the barrier to the finish That ominous silence before the start and the raucous cry theyre off will come as usual as the curtain raiser to the Derby drama At the finish bedlam and confusion of tongues Did you ever see a Kentucky Derby DerbyThe The turf scriveners hundreds of them who have sharpened thousands of pencils and beaten the letters off the keys of nu ¬ merous typing of mills in telling the story of the Derby to millions of readers during the last two months will be rushing fresh copy to the telly ops from Thursday until Saturday so that on the latter day the press box will resemble one of the last editions of a modern newspaper newspaperPeace Peace Chance the J E Widener entry which skyrocketed to a position among the ranking candidates with his scintillating and winning performance in track record time in the Preparation Purse was reported as okeh by trainer Pete Coyne who pre ¬ pared the Chance Shot colt this morning In running the Preparation mile in 135 Peace Chance reduced the track record held by Twenty Grand by onefifth of a second Although Twenty Grand established the mark which stands as a worlds record for twoyearolds as a juvenile and with 122 pounds up in winning the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes of 1930 and the Churchill Downs track partially resoiled since last year is faster than ever before horsemen saw a lot of quality and surely dangerous speed in Peace Chances qualifying effort effortIndications Indications are that the Brookmeade Sta ¬ bles Time Clock winner of the Florida Derby and which accompanied the Chesa ¬ peake Stakes winner Cavalcade probable favorite for Saturdays race from Maryland will only be a starter should something happen to Cavalcade CavalcadeWith With his owner Idoking on the handsome and well regarded Discovery which is to carry the silks of the young millionaire sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt breezed the Derby route in 208 Trainer J H Stotler brought out the son of Display between the second and third races and with J Bejshak his Derby and regular pilot astride he traversed the mile and a quarter at an easy pace beginning at the quarter post postThe The invader began rapidly going the first quarter in 23 following which Bejshak had him nicely in hand to go the half mile in 50 threequarters in 115 the mile in 143 and mile and oneeighth in 155 155At At four oclock assistant trainer J J Con ¬ nors was still looking for R A Smith train erinchief of the Brookmeade Stable who was expected from New York in time to work Cavalcade and Time Clock before sundown
