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BRADLEY HAWTHORNE STRING Eighteen "B" Horses to Carry Colors at Cicero Course. Brokers Tip, Blue Again, Bird Flower, Blessed Again and Boots Pal Included in Band. The Bradley "Bs" eighteen of them, under the direction of trainer Bill Hurley will campaign during the entire thirty-one day Hawthorne meeting which opens here May 23. In this list is a former Derby winner, Brokers Tip, and more important, a colt which Bradley hopes will turn out to be a Derby winner. Bow and Arrow, the fleet youngster which won two of his six juvenile starts at Arlington Park last summer, is the Bradley hope for the 5,000 added Chicago Derby, to be run June 20. Many thought Bow and Arrow the best two-year-old in the colonels barn, though he needed a hard track for his best showing. Bow and Arrow spent the winter in Florida, but has not yet made his 1936 debut. Colonel Bradley is not one to hurry his two-year-olds, and for this reason his campaigners for the Hawthorne meeting are all older horses. Any juveniles which come along fast down at Idle Hour Farm may join them later and compete for the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap. The thoroughbreds which trainer Hurley will bring here for the meeting are Brokers Tip, Blue Again, Bird Flower, Blessed Again, Baby Talk, Bare Legs, Bar Nothing, Better Forget, Boilermaker, Bias, Big Dinner, Bitsy-Witsy, Black Widow, Bold Flirt, Bootless, Boots Pal, Bubblette and Bow and Arrow. Boilermaker, like Brokers Tip, is on the comeback trail. Both are six-year-olds. While it was Brokers Tip which won the most disputed Kentucky Derby of recent years that against Head Play in 1933, when jockeys Meade and Fisher battled it out his stable-mate, Boilermaker, was always considered the better of the pair. Brokers Tip won one race in his career the Derby. Boilermaker has won more than that, but he found it just about as tough making a comeback. Last year he started three times, and three times he finished sec- Continued on eighteenth page. BRADLEY HAWTHORNESTRING Continued from first page. ond. So he was sent back to the farm, taken up again this spring, and Bradley would not be sending him back to the races if he didnt think he would prove a winner this season. Bar Nothing, a three-year-old filly by Blue Larkspur Beaming Beauty, may turn out to be the filly of the season. Not raced as a juvenile, Bar Nothing scored in her third start at Hialeah Park this winter, and by the end of the meeting had decisively whipped good youngsters three times in a row. Both Bradley and Hurley have high hopes for the filly. Big Dinner and Bootless have also showed promise. The Bradley green and white ranks among the best known racing silks in the country and the most to be feared when Derby Day rolls around. The Chicago Derby is one of the very few that the colonel from Idle Hour has never won. He will be well represented this time.
