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War Admiral Derby Winner and Leading Money Gleaner P and S Roberts Tie for Riding Honors HonorsWith With Seventeen Winners Each Meeting Successful Churchill Downs 1937 spring meeting from May 1 to May 22 was a success The Ken tucky Derby each year guarantees a success ¬ ful spring meeting It was a bigger and more successful Derby day than any that has gone before not in the amount of money handled but in the size of the crowd present and the appeal of the race nationally War Admiral added his name to the roster of winners of Americas greatest horse race ran the Derby distance in the second fastest time ever made in the race and took money winning honors for himself and his owner Samuel D Riddle of Philadelphia owner of Man o War The Derby purse 52500 rep j resented Riddles and War Admirals total for the meeting The Milky Way Farm Stable was second on the owners list with 16000 while Count Morse followed War Admiral in the equine list with 9200 The Roberts Paul and Sammy tied for riding honors with seventeen winners each while Basil James and L Haas were also locked right on their heels with thirteen winners each eachBen Ben Jones almost doubled Bob McGarveys total of winners saddled for training honors by sending thirteen winners to the post while the Milky Way Farm charge daffairs was saddling six sixChurchill Churchill Downs gave away 201200 dur ¬ ing the nineteen days a daily average of 1058947 with 37 per cent of the favorites winning Following are the horses which won 1200 or more each j HorseWar Horse 1st 2nd 3rd AmL War Admiral AdmiralCount 100 52050 Count Morse MorsePompoon 100 Pompoon 0 6000 Sky Larking 2 0 0 5985 i Mars Shield 1 0 0 0Oil 4590 Reaping Reward RewardEagle Oil 1 3225 Eagle Pass PassSir 3 0 0 2500 Sir Jim James JamesGiant 0 1 1 2125 Giant Killer KillerBarbara 0 2 1 1425 Barbara J 2 0 1 1325 Savernake SavernakeGrand 2 0 0 1300 Grand Manitou ManitouStar 1 0 0 1250 Star Bud BudButter 2 00 0 1250 Butter Beans BeansKnee 2 21 1 1225 Knee Deep DeepShatterproof 121 1 1225 Shatterproof 0 2 0 1200 j Following are the owners whose horses horses1st won 1525 or more moreOwner Owner 1st 2nd 3rd Amt Glen Riddle Farm FarmMilky 1 0 0 52050 Milky Way Farm 6 1 1 16000 Calumet Farm 2 0 2 9925 Woolf ord Farm 13 6 3 8125 Valdina Farms 5 6 7 6025 Louchheim J H 0 1 0 6000 Parrish J W Finch C N Letellier F P Collins I J Widener J E Tranquillity Farm FarmDuffy Duffy E W Blue Ridge Farm FarmLa La Flesh G Millsdale Stable Greentree Stable Snyder W E Etzler Mrs M B Keene J O Everglades Stable Following are the jockeys who rode three or more winners each Jockey Mts MtsRoberts 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PC Roberts P 88 88Roberts 17 11 10 50 19 Roberts S 63 63James 17 6 10 30 27 James B 79 79Haas 13 18 12 36 16 Haas L 47 47Hutton 13 6 3 25 28 Hutton R 86 86Robertson 10 14 20 42 12 Robertson A 27 27Chall 9 1 12 33 Chall H 77 77Dotter 8 7 54 10 Dotter R 75 75Corbett 8 8 50 11 Corbett C 41 41Rosen 7 6 20 17 Rosen J 39 39Hardy 6 7 22 15 Hardy L 31 31Fowler 5 2 20 16 Fowler G 47 47South 4 2 36 09 South G 45 45Westrope 5 33 09 Westrope J 38 2 26 11 Anderson 1 11 11Swain Swain C 41 3 2 3 33 07 07Following Following are the trainers who saddled saddledthree three or more winners each eachTrainer Trainer Wins Trainer Wins WinsJones Jones B A 13 Goose R 3 McGarvey 3McGarvey R 6 Gregory J R 3 3Finch Finch C N 5 Kaiser H 3 Flanigan 3Flanigan J J 5 Miller A 3 3Letellier Letellier F P 5 Miller E T 3 Carpenter 3Carpenter E B 4 Runnels R T 3 3Gillem Gillem J C 4 Rust W S 3 3Pelleted Pelleted A 4 Snyder E L 3 Stewart 3Stewart D E 4 Wells H 3 Ferguson 3Ferguson C H 3 Gaver J M 3 Goode 3Goode J M 3 3Following Following is the list of stakes that were decided decidedStake Stake Date Winner Value Clark ValueClark Handicapj May 1 Count Morse 9200 Bashford Manor Stakes May 5 Sky Larking s gfl Kentucky gflKentucky Derby May 8 War Admiral 52050 Kentucky 4590The Oaks May 15 Mars Shield 4590 The percentage of winning favorites was below normal as shown in the subjoined tabulationNumber tabulation Number of days 19 19Number Number of races 152 Winning 152Winning favorites i 56 Winning 56Winning second choices 36 Winning 36Winning outsiders 61 Winners 61Winners at oddson 16 Defeated 16Defeated at oddson 7 Percentage 7Percentage of winning favorites 37 One dead heat was run
