Fridays Derby Workouts: Chicago-Owned Finance Goes Three-Quarters in 1:14-Direct Hit and Others Under Saddle, Daily Racing Form, 1935-04-20

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FRIDAYS DERBY WORKOUTS Chicago-Owned Finance Goes Three-Quarters in 1:14 Direct Hit and Others Under Saddle. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 19. Finance, son of imported Bull Dog and a Chicago entry owned by Charles B. Shaffer, who bred and raised him at his Coldstream Stud near Lexington, was the more noted of several Kentucky Derby candidates to work under excellent conditions at Churchill Downs here today. Accompanied by Top Dog, another of the Coldstream three-year-olds, the sleek, well-mannered Derby possibility, worked three-quarters in 1:14. It was the mornings outstanding exhibition of sprinting or speed. Other Derby eligibles in action were: Conn Smythes Direct Hit, Meehan Brothers Carroll Day, T. H. McCaffreys Hazy Autumn, W. E. Hupps Bobbys Son and Mrs. Charles Hainesworths Blackbirder. Good miles were shown by the Ohio candidates, Hazy Autumn and Carroll Day, while the Lexington-owned Bobbys Son worked a like distance under almost choking restraint, and the Canadian-owned Direct Hit "breezed three-quarters against a tight rein. Blackbirders "blow out" was a slow three-eighths as his New York owner looked on. The wily Alex B. Gordon, who yesterday permitted St. Bernard, another son of Bull Dog, but owned by Shaffers son, Ed Shaffer, to exhibit enough to convince that the Bashford Manor Stakes winner may be in the thick of the Derby fight coming up two weeks from tomorrow, had Finance on the track early and his "tip-toe" trial suggested that he is being primed to force or make the Derby pace from the rise of the timers flag. Eager to run, but never fully extended, he clicked off the first two furlongs in :12 each. The half mile was completed in :48 and from that stage on he fought against even stronger restraint. His companion was about a length back at the finish. Excepting the presence of Richwood with Hazy Autumn and greater speed displayed by Carroll Day during the early stages of his work, the trials of the McCaffrey filly and Meehan Brothers colt were counterparts from a time standpoint. Hazy Autumn went in 1:43, and Carroll Day in just two-fifths of a second faster time. After three-quarters in 1:17, the quarter in :24 and half mile in :50, Hazy Autumn drew away from Richwood, which was timed in 1:44 for the mile. Carroll Day went his opening quarter in :24, the half mile in :48, five-eighths in 1:01, three-quarters in 1:14 and seven-eighths in 1:29. Neither of these Derby nominees has been to the post. Carroll Day is a son of Peter Hastings Nell Jo, by Dick Welles, and Hazy Autumn a daughter of Genie Golden Autumn, by Mee-lick. Hard held from start to finish, Bobbys Son, "buck-jumped" as horsemen say, a mile in 1:47. The quarters were caught in :26, :52, and 1:19, breezing all the way, Direct Hit ambled three-quarters at an even pace in 1:15, the quarter in :25 and half mile in :50, while C. Hainesworth was "swinging" Blackbirder as he held him to the slow pace of :40 for the three furlongs. J. E. Wideners Chance Sun, the Derby favorite; Jouett Shouses Weston and St. Bernard, stars of yesterdays Derby training, jogged about two miles each this morning. They will again swing into real action Sunday or Monday, while trainer Tommy Oliphant plans to give J. J. Flanigans Chanceview, the leading Louisville classic candidate, another stiff test tomorrow.


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Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/unk82075800