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t -- t Here and There on the Turf Some Derby Horses Not in Freakness Entry List Imposing, However Derby Eligibles Lose Out Lincoln Fields to Be Improved -- - - Eighty-five nominations were made to the Freakness, or eighteen less than are eligible to the Kentucky Derby, but the test is just as imposing, including some well known three-year-olds which were not named for the Churchill Downs classic. Chief of these is Matey, owned by Walter M. Jeffords, which was kept out of the Derby because of the owners fears that the field would be too large to give the son of Man o War and Tavy a proper chance. Greentrce Stables Forty Winks, winner of the Saratoga Special, is an absentee from the Freakness, but he will not be a starter in the Derby either, as it has been just announced that he is intended for later campaigning. Case Ace also is not in the Freakness, and this may be some sort of information that the son of Teddy is not to be regarded as a very formidable prospect for the Derby. None of the Calumet Farm colts is a Freakness candidate and quite probably their owner. Warren Wright, hasnt forgotten the disqualification of Privileged in the Pimlico Futurity last fall. Whereas the Milky Way Farm and Grecntree Stable were the leading nominators to the Derby, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Belair Stud and John Hay Whitney possess this distinction in connection with the Freakness. Vanderbilt, a Maryland sportsman, became a large stockholder and official of the Maryland Jockey Club last fall. With 0,000 added, the Preakness has attracted an imposing group of cligibles and very probably its field will include the Kentucky Derby winner as has been the case so often in the past, even though the entries to the two events are not identical. They include a large majority of the better prospects, however. The way of the Kentucky Derby hopeful is hard. Out of 103 eligibles will come a field of a score or less, the record number of starters being twenty-two when Reign Count was victorious. One by one they have been dropping out, until now the public may feel well satisfied that absentees in the mile and one-quarter special on May 8 will be Danarco, Dawn Play, Tattered, Eli Yale, Forty Winks and Privileged. Dawn Play and Privileged are not to be made ready for the race while the others suffered mishaps in training while campaigning this winter. Privileged is probably the best known Derby eligible to be eliminated. The Calumet Farm colt ranked as one of the best juveniles out last season, but he was fired ankte trouble upon his retirement last fall and his connections have reached the conclusion tht he should not be rushed in his prepara- "wufthfmajor season now under way. racing in Maryland, Kentucky, New York and Texas during the next four weeks will find a great many of the Derby eligibles either not ready or lacking in ability. Major qualifying tests on the schedule are the Texas Derby, Chesapeake Stakes, Wood Memorial and Blue Grass Stakes. By the time these races are over and training hardships also have taken their toll, the probable field will have been reduced to about thirty, owners and trainers having a fair idea as to whether eligibles are up to standard. As has long been the case, however, the Derby field will include several horses whose owners are only desirous of having their colors represented, even though two or three candidates may be distinct standouts. Lincoln Fields hasnt announced its stakes and purse program for the coming season and probably wont until Its management has the chance to size up the business done at some of the other tracks, but the Will County course aims to do its part to make Chicago racing more popular. Numerous improvements have been planned for Lincoln Fields, so that it will be an even more attractive race course than ever and this work will move forward steadily during the summer. The location of Lincoln Fields unfortunately is against its attracting the crowds that go to Washington and Arlington Parks, but Col. Matt Winn and his associates 1 1 hope to make up for this disadvantage in another way. Even though it has been a picturesque course ever since its construction, Lincoln Fields is to be made even more pleasing to the eye and at the same time provide better accommodations to patrons, so they will not mind so much the long ride to get there from downtown Chicago.
