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The colt is in prime condition for the Derby as was | illustrated Tuesday at Churchill Downs before amazed dockers j I and onlookers by working six furlongs in 1:11%, the mile in * 1:38% and one and one-eighth miles in 1:53, eased up. , By NORRIS ROYDEN. | Because he set a new worlds record of 1:47% for the mile and one furlong, beating Top Row, Indian Broom has been added to this series. The son of Brooms and Kawita, by Donnacona, is a vastly improved colt, but it will take a race like the Kentucky Derby to determine whether he has attained class along with speed. Indian Broom; as a member of the Brookmeade Stable, belonged to about the third class of two-year-olds, having run mostly in claiming events during the first half of the season, but improving slightly in the fall. After displaying several promising efforts at Santa Anita this winter, the son of Brooms apparently trained off and he was sold to Maj. Austin C. Taylor, of Vancouver and turned over to D. C. Cannon to train. Under new management Indian Broom almost immediately went on a winning streak although given a twelve-day vacation first. His first effort for Taylor was in a sprint of six furlongs in which he carried 104 pounds to 124 pounds for Valevictorian. The latter beat him by a nose in a fast race over a dull track. Then Indian Broom started his winning streak of four straight, concluding with hia worlds record performance in the Marchbank Handicap at Tanforan. The first of hi3 victories was in a dash of seven furlongs at Santa Anita in which he led all the way to triumph by four lengths over Pompeys Squaw, Malmaison and other such average three-year-olds. Asked to take up 120 pounds in a three-year-old handicap at one mile at Tanforan, Indian Broom set all the pace to score by a length over Toration and others, all getting weight from him. This race was followed by another mile dash, but against older horses of some ability. Both events were stakes, the Taylor colt being asked to shoulder 112 pounds against his older adversaries in the latter handicap. The track being slow made no difference to the Brooms colt and despite the disadvantage of giving away weight on the scale to his opponents, het followed the pace closely until reaching the stretch where he forged ahead to be five lengths ahead of Slapped at the finish with Open Range third and Crete fourth. Because of his winning streak, Indian Broom went into the Marchbank Handicap as second choice to Top Row. As the weights for the race were assigned before his easy defeat of older horses, he had only 95 pounds to carry against the A. A. Baronl star and under such a feather was asked for good speed from the beginning. The Tanforan track was lightning fast and Indian Broom was on his toes, so he had no trouble getting to the front. Rated along in the early stages, he was timed the opening quarter in :24%, but picked up speed to get to the half-mile in 48 seconds. Increasing his pace even more, the Taylor colt went the six furlongs in 1:11%, having run the third quarter in :23%. Reaching the second turn Indian Brooms pace naturally slowed down, but not enough to prevent him from completing the mile in 1:35%, or the fourth quarter in :24%. Keeping up his remarkable pace the former Brookmeade colt went the final furlong in twelve seconds to defeat Top Row by seven lengths, the Santa Anita Handicap winner never having been able to get within hailing distance of the three-year-old. The performance lowered the former record, held jointly by Discovery and Brevity, by three-fifths of a second, and resulted in Major Taylors decision to send him to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. The California delegation is strong for him and several of the best horsemen there including Kay Spence rate him now as a top-grade three-year-old. Indian Broom was bred by the Brookmeade Stable of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, being by her Hopeful winner, Brooms, and a mare by Donnacona. Brooms, being by Broomstick from a Sir Martin mare, should impart some staying qualities although he never had much of a chance to prove what he could do over a distance. Much staying blood exists in the pedigree of Indian Brooms dam as she traces to Prince Talatine, The Curragh, a son of Spearmint and Chuctanunda of Sanford fame.
