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NED REIGH AND GRANVILLE Two Prominent Kentucky Derby Candidates Clash in Mile and Seventy Yards Race. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 20. Willis Sharpe Kilmers Ned Reigh, a triple stakes winner as a juvenile and a prominent candidate for Saturdays Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby, will have his public trial for the first-mentioned classic when he goes forth in the mile and seventy yards Bridge-hampton Purse, an overnight allowance affair at Jamaica today. The home-bred son of Neddie and Sun Reigh will be opposed by Belair Studs highly regarded Granville, Sage Stables Pullman, Wheatley Stables Invermark and Brookmeades Neap. All but the last-mentioned are probables in the 0,000 added Wood Memorial. Ned Reigh was a late fall development as a two-year-old, but when the big fellow found his true stride he went on to prevail in the Junior Champion Stakes at Aqueduct, the Babylon Handicap at the same grounds and in the historic Walden mile at Pimlico. He was third behind Hollyrood in the Pimlico Futurity and finished in the same place in the Spalding Lowe Jenkins at Laurel. Granville, while he won only one purse as a two-year-old, was right up there in a number of stake engagements and went into winter retirement rated as a strong possibility for three-year-old honors. He has trained smartly at Aqueduct under the watchful eye of "Sunny" Jim Fitzsimmons. He will run coupled tomorrow with Invermark. Pullman has been to the races, finishing third behind Mower and Mr. Bones at Jamaica last week. Neap, too, has had the benefit of a conditioner. The Bridgehampton features a sparkling card of six events at the compact course of the Metropolitan Jockey Club. In the head-liner Ned Reigh is top weight, under 114 pounds, and will be ridden by Raymond "Sonny" Workman.
