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WORLDS FAMOUS EPSOM DERBY TO BE RUN TODAY TWENTYONE STARTERS Cash Book Remains Public Favorite of Prospective Contestants Americas Hope for Victory Centered Centeredon on William Woodwards Perifox PerifoxSon Son of Gallant Fox CablegramLONDON Special Cablegram LONDON England June 1 All roads lead to Epsom Downs where tomorrow all England and visitors from far and near will gather by thousands and thousands almost a million people to witness the worlds fa ¬ mous Epsom Derby This will be the 157th running of a race from which simi ¬ lar contests are patterned throughout the entire universe wherever horse racing is conducted The first winner of the Epsom Derby was Diomed which later was shipped to the United States and played an import ¬ ant part in the early days of thoroughbred production in America The United States may cut an important figure in the running of tomorrows contest and the many Ameri ¬ cans who will be in the big throng at Epsom Downs are hopeful of another Yankee triumph and voice their approval if William Woodwards Perifox comes scampering home the victor Perifox is the son of the redoubt ¬ able Gallant Fox himself a champion in America and whose elder son Omaha is making history in English racing being rated among the topnotchers and great stayers stayersCapt Capt BoydRochfort trainer of Perifox said the son of Gallant Fox was ready but we could use a little rain j Although the Epsom course has a thick blanket of grass it is hard as a board under ¬ neath due to rainless weather in the past ten days daysAMERICAN AMERICAN SUCCESSES SUCCESSESThe The last Americanowned winner of the Epsom Derby was Herman Duryeas Durbar II in 1914 Other United States entries which won Britains greatest race were Richard Crokers Orby in 1907 and Pierre Lorillards Iroquois in 1881 1881For For the 157th running there are twenty one prospective starters with the race con ¬ sidered quite an open one oneThe The bogeyman of the Derby as usual was the Aga Khan whose Mahmoud and Bah ram won the last two Derbys This time the fabulously rich Indian religious leader has Le Grand Due strangely enough the only horse in the race notoriously fond of hard going goingAs As the Maharajah Rajpiplas Windsor Lad won three years ago Indian owners have pocketed first prize for three straight years yearsEleventh Eleventh hour surprises have been the exception as regards this years Epsom classic In fact they have been nil if one were not to take notice of the last moment betting flurry on Cash Book which less than three weeks ago broke from the maiden ranks in winning the one mile and a quarter Newmarket Stakes In that winning effort the third of his career he scored in tiplop scyle over such highly regarded colts as Fair CopySolfo and six others and his victory was not unexpected as he was the second choice in the betting bettingCash Cash Books position as a cleancut choice in the betting inspires new hopes that the bay son of the 1931 Derby winner Camer onian and Volume a daughter of the 1923 Continued on thirtyfourth page WORLDS FAMOUS EPSOM DERBY TO BE RUN TODAY Continued from first page Derby hero Papyrus will break the jinx that has so long dogged the Derby candi ¬ dates of his ownerbreeder Lord Astor Five times in the past twenty years Lord Astor has owned the runnerup in the Derby a classic he has yet to win This also applies to Cash Books jockey the champion Gordon Richards also minus a Derby score Nor has the Manton trainer Joe Lawson saddled a winner of the premium classic classicThe The old proverb Everything comes to those that wait may be fulfilled here at Epsom tomorrow and no more popular vic ¬ tory could be scored than that of Lord Astors light blue pink sash silks in the worlds greatest race raceA A drift in the betting from the position of favorite to second choice in the case of the French invader Le Ksar does not weaken the respect from Evermond de St Alarys good colt His credentials as a runaway Two Thousand Guineas winner are far more creditable than those of the eleventh hour favorite Assured that the son of Ksar and Queen Iseult has satisfied his shrewd French trainer Frank Carter as to his ability to negotiate the Derby distance of one mile and a half one must favor the prospects of the Gallic challenger which would be the third invader from his country to carry off our premier prize Le Ksar will be favored by having such a capable jockey as C H Semblat in the saddle saddleTRAINING TRAINING INTERUPTION INTERUPTIONPrior Prior to an interruption in his preparation for the Derby no horse gave brighter hopes than the Americanbred Perifox which races for his owner and breeder William Wood ¬ ward Epsom Derbys are not won by horses that a few days prior have gone gingerly or sore in their gallops as has been Perifoxs case and it is for that reason alone one is doubtful that the son of Gallant Fox Peri ¬ winkle II can score Of course Derbys in the past have been won by horses on the verge of breaking down and one of its greatest winners of the present century Sun star passed the post on three legs legsTwo Two other Frenchbreds that must be seriously considered are Marcel Boussacs Goya H and the Aga Khans Le Grand Due The first named colt son of the French Derbv winner Tombillon and the great winnerproducer Zariba though beaten four lengths by his compatriot Le Ksar in the Two Thousand Guineas has since thrived on an orthodox preparation and will strip a much fitter and greatly improved colt to ¬ morrow Furthermore he will have an ex ¬ perienced Derby race rider in Tommy Weston in the saddle
