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WHIZZAWAYS GREAT RECORD Rises From ,000 Plater Ranks to Star Three-Year-Old. Gets Big Test In Todays Renewal of Texas Derby at Arlington Downs Has Proved Fast Finisher. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 19. Consistent winning form sustained by the Geneseo Stables Whizzaway, since he won a ,000 claiming race at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans late in December, has brought him to the front among the second flight candi- dates for the sixty-first Kentucky Derby, to I be run here Saturday, May 4. On Saturday the son of Whiskaway and . Style, by Under Fire, will try to finish in front for the tenth time in successive engagements when he does battle with Elwood Sachsenmaiers Roman Soldier and others in the 5,000 Texas Derby at Arlington Downs, near Fort Worth. Should he win this race, his Kentucky Derby stock will soar above that of any winter raced three-year-old. In his last start at that Texas course, Whizzaway ran a mile under 115 pounds in 1:37, to defeat the Louisiana Derby winner, McCarthy, Whiskolo, Dark Woman, which finished second in the Louisiana Derby, and others. In this final test for the Texas Derby, he raced from last in the field of six through the first quarter mile to win by a length, going away. v Eight of his ten successive victories were scored in handicaps or allowance races. On April 8, eight days before his last triumph, he ran. a mile and one-sixteenth over the Arlington Downs track in 1:44, and the time before that he equalled the Oaklawn Park course record of 1:42 for a mile and seventy .yards, in defeating older company in the second of two winning performances over that Arkansas track. Tn finishing in. front in the third of his nine straight firsts, the Geneseo three-year-old slightly impeded an opponent for which hevwas disqualified. That and defeats in his first two starts at New Orleans are the only-marks against the rangy Whiskaway racer since he left the North last fall. For steady campaigning Whizzaway is almost without peer among the 110 colts, geldings and fillies comprising the list of Kentucky Derby eligibles. As the property of Daniel B. Midkiff, Lexington, Ky., banker, and when in the hands of the youthful conditioner, Howard Wells, he had his first taste of battle fire in a three furlong race won by Albuquerque at Tropical Park in January, 1934. Some two months later and after he had failed to win in three starts, he left the maiden ranks with an easily achieved score over Dark Zeni, Beginners Bait, Synod and three others in a, half mile dash for maiden two-year-olds, also over the Tropical Park course. After another appearance at the same Miami track, he did not again appear under colors until August at Hawthorne and it was not until he had seven autumn chances that he again finished in front, this time with ,500 company of his age and at a mile and seventy yards at Coney Island. This second victory came early in October and two more defeats were suffered before the sensational winter campaign, during which he was to rise from the lowest claiming depths to a position among the leading southern raced horses of his age, got under way at the Crescent City. His transfer to the Geneseo Stable at New Orleans for a reported price of ;500, came after he had landed in front five successive times, including, of course, the race on December 29, in which he was disqualified. In New Orleans he was trained by Harry Saladin and he never appeared under the Geneseo Colors there, trainer A. F. Dayton starting him for the first time for that stable at Oaklawn Park late in February.
