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SATURDAYS BIG RAGE Small But Select Field to Meet in Valuable ThreeYearOld Stake Sun Portland Roman Soldier Fire thorn and Cold Shoulder Counted on for Great Contest The probable field for the Detroit Derby with weights and probable jockeys follow followHorse JockeySun Horse Wt Jockey KurtsingerRoman Sun Portland 123 C Kurtsinger Roman Soldier 123 G Woolf WoolfFirethorn Firethorn 119 R Workman WorkmanCold Cold Shoulder 119 S Renick Blackbirder RenickBlackbirder HainsworthSt 119 C Hainsworth St Moritz 119 A J Abel Cross AbelCross Ruff 119 B Thornton DETROIT Mich June 13 With the ar ¬ rival of Walter M Jeffords Firethorn and Alfred Gvynne Vanderbilts Cold Shoulder here this morning the probable starting field for the 25000 added Detroit Derby to be renewed here Saturday is now on the grounds groundsThis This pair of important eligibles made a fast trip from Belmont Park together and unloaded in the best of fashion Oscar White vvas in charge of Firethorn and stated that Preston Burch would be here tomorrow to supervise the final prepara ¬ tion of the son of Sun Briar and that R Sonny1 Workman would come here to ride the colt in Saturdays fixture fixtureE E G Shaffer one of J H Stotlers as ¬ sistants supervised the transfer of Cold Shoulder Sammy Renick will handle the son of Display Saturday Judy OGrady a stablemate of Firethorn and Gum which was turned o er to A G Wilson also were in the car As the race now shapes up it is a battle between two crack eastern representatives and the two leading western threeyearolds threeyearoldsFIRETHORN FIRETHORN EASTERN HOPE HOPEFirethorn Firethorn which finished second to Omaha in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes and Cold Shoulder will carry the hopes of the boys from the Atlantic sea ¬ board Roman Soldier and Sun Portland will be in there fighting to keep the pot of gold and honor in the West WestIn In addition to this sterling quartet Mrs Charles Hainsworths Blackbirder Mrs A J Abels St Moritz and probably the Tran quility Farms Cross Ruff will go postward postwardSt St Moritz was under colors in the Uni ¬ versity of Michigan Handicap and although he was defeated by Eddie J and Fast Stride trainer Abel stated he would be a starter starterThe The horse was a trifle short said Abel He unloaded here Monday and I have done nothing with him since his last race at Woodbine He will run much better Sat ¬ urday urdayThere There is little possibility of Double B going postward The horse has not been trained for such a gruelling journey as the mile and threesixteenths of the Derby Ha bore out badly on the first turn in the mile handicap Wednesday and afterwards refused to extend himself himselfLARGE LARGE ADVANCE SALE SALEAlthough Although there is no champion such as Cavalcade to attract there is an unusually large advance sale for Saturdays race and from alL indications the largest gathering to have visited the l air Grounds track since racing was revived in Michigan will be on hand handDue Due to the many features arranged for this week enthusiasm is at fever heat Starting with the Derby Hope Handicap last Monday when Sun Portland made his Detroit debut in auspicious fashion and topped by the Derby Week Special Handi ¬ cap which brought Azucar Head Play and Stand Pat together this afternoon the Mo ¬ tor City patrons are having a brilliant week of racing fflnntinupO nu fourteenth nanal PROSPECTIVE CONTESTANTS FOR DETROIT DERBY Continued from first page Many astute horsemen predict that Sun Portland will be the leading threeyearold when the autumn leaves are turning They point out that he has shown marked im ¬ provement in each succeeding race Great ly resembling Sun Beau he might be such a horse they say Sun Beau was badly beaten in the 1928 Kentucky Derby only to win the Latonia Championship Stakes in the fall of the year However yearHowever Firelhorn is another son of Sun Briar and with no Omaha to oppose he will come in for strong support Demonstrating that the rest did him mucK good Roman Soldier worked the Derby dis ¬ tance in fine style the other afternoon He appears to be back to the form that carried him to Texas Derby honors and a second to Omaha in the Kentucky classic classicAlthough Although his threeyearold credentials do not stack up with the four others Black birder has always been a factor Graduate ing from a lowly claiming race here las spring the Bostonian colt went on to stakes triumps as a twoyearold He showed a fine effort in the Kentucky Derby and he turned in a good race in the Derby Hope Handicap Cross Ruff has done most of his campaigning this year against oldet performers
