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EAGLE PASS DERBY WORK Valdina Farms Latonia Eligible EligibleBreezes Breezes One Mile and a Quarter Quarterin in 216 at Homewood HOMEWOOD Illx June 5 Eagle Pass the up and coming threeyearold in Edward F Woodwards Valdina Farms stable was breezed a useful mile and a quarter at Wash ¬ ington Park Friday morning as another step in his training f or the 15000 added Latonia Derby on June 12 The son of Night Flyer which finished second to Count Morse in the Blue and Gray Handicap here last Mon day went the distance of the Latonia fixture in 216 over afast track and accomplished the feat in impressive fashion i Eagle Pass accompanied by Cross S for seven furlongs went the first quarter in 26 the half mile in 52 threequarters in 119 and the mile in 147 Cross S time for the seveneighths was 133 and he too was breezing breezingThe The Valdina Derby candidate is to leave here next Wednesday for the Kentucky track He will be ridden in the stake there by Basil James who has fully recovered from a recent tonsil operation operationRobert Robert McGarvey trainer of the Milky Way Farm horses indicated today that he would send Murph along as Reaping He wards running mate in the Latonia fixture After a first glance at the official nomina ¬ tions for that event McGarvey discovered that Case Ace was hot eligible for it and he said that Murph would be substituted for Case Ace in the stables band for the Ken ¬ tucky race The two horses will be shipped from Washington Park next Wednesday
