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COMPETITION THE REAL TEST Only Actual Racing Deeds Keep Derby Candidates Fopular. Public Having Difficult Task Comparing Merits of Pompoon, Reaping Reward and Brooklyn. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 21. With spring racing under way at Lexington, Havre de Grace and Jamaica, the acid tezt for many leading candidates for the 1937.sh,000 added Kentucky Derby is in progress. No longer will high ranking as juveniles keep the cligibles at the forefront. Three-year-old form probably will determine which will go to the post as the public choice on Saturday, May 8. This does not mean that one poor performance necessarily will force a prominent eligible into the discard, but actual racing may reshuffle a number of the more favored ones. The fact that there are a number which are rated as unusual three-year-olds makes the racing test more important than usual. PUBLIC VACILLATES. Just now the public seems to be having a hard time deciding which of the leading three, Jerome H. Louchheims Pompoon, E. R. Bradleys Brooklyn and Milky Way Farms Reaping Reward, should be the-choice. Closely following come Samuel D. Riddles War Admiral, Mary Hirschs No Sir, Calumet Farms Gosum and Galsun, Fox-catcher Farms Fairy Hill, Greentree Stables Chicolorado, Howard Maxwells Sccneshifter, De Witt Pages Maedic, Townsend B. Martins Court Scandal, J. W. Parrishs Dellor, Alfred G. Vanderbilts Airflame, and Man-hasset Stables White Tie. Outsiders not without favor are Hamilton C. Applegates Chigre, Mrs. W. H. Fursts Gerald, I. J. Collins Bernard F., Milky Way Farms Case Ace, Military and Murph; J. B. Respess Main Man, Raoul Walshs Sunset Trail II., and C. V. Whitneys Flying Cross. There are others whose owners are just as hopeful as when they paid the nominating fee on March 1, all of which indicates a large field for the big race. The 0,000 added Clark Handicap, to be run on the opening day of the Churchill Downs meeting Saturday, May 1, has attracted an unusually high-class field. Among the probable starters are Hal Price Head-leys Hollyrood, I. J. Collins Paradisical, James Chesneys Professor Paul, Rosedale Stables Silk Mask, C. V. Whitneys Tatterdemalion and Roustabout, E. R. Bradleys Bow to Me and Banister, Calumet Farms Count Morse, Greentree Stables Memory Book and Morris Vehons Threadneedle. GOOD RACE. The Clark, for three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and one-sixteenth, has always been a good race. Among its winners have been some of the greatest horses of all time. It seldom has been better balanced than this year. With many visitors coming for the opening and remaining over for the Kentucky Derby, the management has moved up the Bashford Manor Stakes to the Wednesday between the Clark and the Derby. This event, with ,000 added, is for two-year-olds, over the five furlongs route. With all stable room reserved and all reserved seats sold, the forthcoming Kentucky Derby promises tr be the most successful in the long history of the event.
