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EXTRA ,000 OFFERED Added Prize in Chicago Derby for Big Stake Winner, Victor in Kentucky Derby, Preakness or Belmont Stakes Can Win $ 2 0, 0 0 0 in Hawthorne Race. The historic Chicago Derby, scheduled for revival at the Hawthorne race track on June 20, may carry an added value of 0,000 instead of 5,000, it was announced today by president Albert Sabath of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association, operators of the track. That added prize will depend on just which horse wins the mile and a quarter affair. The Derby, climax of the thirty-one day meeting, coming as it does after the runnings of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes, will draw the best three-year-olds in the land, and should the winner have previously captured any of the other three events, he will draw an additional ,000 from Hawthorne. Thus it becomes more likely than ever that the Chicago Derby will have a great deal to say about deciding which will be the three-year-old champion. Several of the leading members of the division have been delayed in training by the severe winter and undoubtedly will not be up to such a test as the Kentucky Derby or Preakness, to be run the first two Saturdays in May. Third of the leading stakes, the Belmont, comes a month later, June 6. This mile and a half test, with its early closing of entries, will be without benefit of Brevity this year. Owner Joseph E. Widener failed to name the youngster a year ago. Any challengers for the title that may have developed by June 20 will likely use the Chicago Derby to settle matters. One of the leading candidates for an extra ,000 in the Hawthorne feature is Grand Slam, one of the future book choices for the Kentucky Derby. Owners Bohn and Markey have named Grand Slam for the Preakness as well. A victory for him in either of the May stakes, and Grand Slam will come to Hawthorne seeking not 5,000 but 0,000. And while he has never raced at the Hawthorne track, horsemen are -convinced he will be well suited there. Grand Slams preference is for a soft track and the well-cushioned course at the West Side plant should make it ideal for him. The last running of the Chicago Derby in 1933 was for purposes of settling a muddled situation among the three-year-olds. When Gay World captured this event the division was even more upset. There are a number of promising youngsters in the division this season. Just as there was no standout among them as juveniles last year, there is no standout apparent for the coming campaign. In Maryland and Kentucky now the good ones are getting ready. Some of them are being asked for speed in their morning trials these days, others are farther back in their preparation. Hawthornes Derby, coming late enough for the morning glories to have been discovered, and the good ones to have reached their peak, is in a most advantageous posi-r tion to bring together the best. That winner of Derbies, Col. E. R. Bradley, already has announced his stable will be present for the meeting opening May 23, and Joseph Widener, owner of Brevity, will send a division here.
