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HAVE FAITH IN COLDSTREAM Many Kentuckians Believe Colt Will Win Kentucky Derby. - - Had Checkered Career as Two-Year-Old Ban Good and Bad Baces Gordon Has Confidence in Him. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 4. Although Joseph E. Wideners Brevity and Hal Price Headleys Hollyrood continue to rule choices for the Kentucky Derby, many followers of the turf in this vicinity still are faithful to C. B. Shaffers Coldstream. They believe that when the big race is run on Saturday, May 2, the son of Bull Dog will prove himself the great thoroughbred his appearance and performances at Churchill Downs last spring seemed to indicate. There never was a finer looking two-year-old than Coldstream when he made his first public appearance in 1935. This was in a purse race at Churchill Downs on April 30. Coldstream showed high speed and went into the lead, but bore out in the stretch, and in a bumping match lost by a head to Black Highbrow. It was in his second effort under colors, on Derby Day, that Coldstream showed what he really could do. In an allowance race over four and one-half furlongs he ran away from his field, including Black Highbrow, and won by four lengths in :5275, a new track record. He displayed the same brand of speed to capture the Bashford Manor Stakes by five lengths. Coldstream then was shipped east, where began his in-and-out performances. He won his first start at Belmont Park, lost a couple of races, won, lost, won, lost. It was in his defeats that Coldstream looked so bad that many who had sung his praises weakened on him. His victories, however, afforded just as strong an argument on the other side of the question. They were so impressive that his followers insisted that in defeat he clearly had not run his race. One of Coldstreams most brilliant efforts was in the Saratoga Special, in which he and C. V. Whitneys Red Bain ran a dead heat. In this event Coldstream proved his gameness. He came from far back after having been in close quarters during the earlier running, slipped between the leaders entering the final eighth and closed courageously on even terms with Bed Rain. His triumph in the Hyde Park Stakes at Arlington Park was just as spectacular. Off eighteenth in a tangle and on the extreme outside, he worked his way to the front to win by a nose. Coldstreams admirers point to these races as indicative of his gameness. His bad races they cant explain. But they believe that if he runs as he did in his good races he will win the Kentucky Derby. And they believe he will run that way. Coldstream has wintered well at Shaffers Coldstream Stud near Lexington. He received enough shed work through the cold months to keep him in fine trim and his early gallops have brought him along1 to the point where there is no question as to being fit on Derby Day. The son of Bull Dog is in the able hands of trainer Alex Gordon, who claims that Coldstream is the best three-year-old he ever has had in his care. Gordon believes he has a probable Kentucky Derby winner, and many Kentuckians are stringing along with him.
