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Wood Memorial Important as Derby and Preakness Test EXPECT MLD OF TEN Hollyrood and Granville Considered Sure Starters Other Stars Among Prospective Rivals NEW YORK, N. Y., April 16. Indications are that the Wood Memorial of the Metropolitan Jockey Club will have one of its most interesting renewals a week from Saturday. This gallop of a mile and seventy yards for three-year-olds has an importance of its own with the 0,000 that is offered in added money, while its relation to the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness lends a big additional interest. It has always shown eligibles for the big classics that follow and offers a first public line on three-year-bid worth. This year, two that are considered sure starters are Hal Price Headleys Hollyrood and Wilham Woodwards Granville, two that are highly considered among the Kentucky Derby lot. Last year Omaha, the Derby winner under the Woodward silks, was third to Today and Plat Eye in the running of the Wood Memorial. On all training reports it seems assured that at least ten will be shown under silks a week from Saturday. Besides Granville and Hollyrood the others are C. V. Whitneys Bright Plumage, that wound up his Florida season by taking the Derby Consolation at Tropical Park; Morton L. Schwartz Bold Venture, that has been working exceedingly well for the running; the Wheatley Stables Teufel, intended for a start in the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace tomorrow; A. G. Vanderbilts Postage Due, a Havre de Grace winner on Wednesday; the Wheatley Stables Invermark, Willis Sharpe Kilmers Ned Reigh, the Greentree Stables Galsac and the Brookmeade Stables Clocks. Some others may be added to this list, but the ten named have been heading for the Wood in a fashion to suggest them as certain starters, barring accident. Tintagel was intended as a starter, but there is a doubt of his being sent to the post after his disappointing race in the Paumonok Handicap, Wednesday. The most recent move of Bright Plumage was a mile and a furlong at Belmont Park in 1:54, and it suggested an entire readiness. Clocks covered a mile over the same course in 1:46, while Granville impressed greatly at Aqueduct, Wednesday morning, when he turned in a handy mile in 1:42. Hollyrood has been doing about all that has been asked of him by Duval Headley and altogether there never was better promise of a great contest in the running of this first of the important New York stakes for three-year-olds.
