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American Derby Next Saturday Considered Open Race i Milky Way Farm Stable Holds Strongest Hand Nominates Five for 5,000 Prize Three-Year-Old Race Highlight of Meeting. HOMEWOOD, 111., June 12. A hopeful band of three-year-old stake horses, seeking a share of the nations many Derbys, comes to Washington Park this week for the twenty-eighth running of Chicagos, oldest feature, the American Derby. The highlight of the thirty-day meeting at the south side track is to be run Saturday, when from a dozen to fifteen of the very best in the division meet over the mile and a quarter route for the prize of 5,000 in added money that has been offered by the Washington Park Jockey Club. The unfortunate injury to War Admiral leaves the American Derby a wide open race and may bring to light the main challenger-for War Admiral to beat when he returns to competition. The American Derby nominations closed with forty-seven eligibles, in- oliirHncr oil nf tVio leglore HOLDS STRONG HAND. While the field for the rich event is still uncertain, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Milky Way Farm will hold one of the strongest hands, for she has five named for the race, including Reaping Reward, Military, Murph, Mars Shield, winner of the Texas Derby, and Case Ace, winner of the Illinois Derby. Which pair will start is problematic, but Reaping Reward is likely to be accompanied by either Case Ace or Mars Shield. Should the filly go the race will be marked by the first duel between the prize fillies of the East and West, for Max Hirsch is expected to ship the King Ranchs Dawn Play here for the Derby. She is a strapping big filly, seventeen hands high, but the Milky Way miss is built much the same way, except being a bit i lighter. . First run in 1884 and won by a filly, Modesty, the American Derby was renewed almost annually until 1905, the last being in 1904. Revived in 1926, the Derby has annually gone to top-notch performers, with Toro, Mate, Gusto, Mr. Khayyam and Cavalcade among the winners. BLACK HELENS VICTORY. The last running two years ago found another filly home first, E. R. Bradleys Black Helen. So there is precedent for the efforts of Dawn Play and Mars Shield for an American Derby win. Flying Scot, winner of the Withers, will be here for the race; Reaping Reward, third in the Kentucky Derby, is sure to start; Heelfly, consistent Texas-owned thoroughbred; Over the Top, Yellow Tulip, No Sir, Dellor, Burning Star, Sunset Trail H. and the dark horse, Eagle Pass, are all regarded as certain to be in the gate when starter Dick- Continued on thirty-fourth page. AMERICAN DERBY NEXT SATURDAY CONSIDERED OPEN RACE Continued from first page. erson sends them away. Col. Maxwell Howards Sceneshifter and Mrs. Julia Lofts Mo-sawtre are other probable American Derby starters, as is Mrs. Emil Denemarks Orientalist, should he come to the racing wars this week in the form that made him one of the leaders of the juvenile division a year ago. Orientalist is. to make his 1937 debut Mon-: day afternoon in the fourth race, being called upon to meet a large field at six furlongs. In the fifth race, the Kensington, at one mile, five Derby horses compete, the Bomar Stables Yellow Tulip, the Le Mar Stock Farms Merrymood, the Tranquillity Farms Teddy Green, Mrs. Denemarks Prairie Dog and the Shandon Farms Burning Star. Chicagos own Derby annually draws one of Chicagos greatest race crowds, and box seats for the 1937 renewal indicate that a throng rivalling Decoration Days record day will be at the beautiful south side track for the event.
