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TWO JUVENILE HEADLINERS j Debutante and Bashford JVEanor Stakes Main Juvenile Features. Filly Race Being Revived at Famous Church- III Downs After Having Been Abandoned Since 1931. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 6 Because so 1 little is known of the racing qualities of two- year-olds at this time of the season, it is im- possible to say what kind of races the Debu- tante and Bashford Manor Stakes will de- velop into in their renewals during the i forthcoming Churchill Downs spring meet- ing, but for these features many well-bred 1 youngsters have been nominated. In the two features, the principal opportunities for i young horses during the meeting which opens April 30, entries include all the best j prospects in the leading western stables, as ; well as an unusually large number of eastern-owned two-year-olds. For the Bashford Manor Stakes, which has been run annually for thirty-seven years, 115 colts, geldings and fillies are eligible, while nominations to the Debutante Stakes, as the 1 narne implies, exclusively for fillies, number 109. The latter stake is being revived after I being shelved since 1931 after having thirty- seven runnings. The Bashford Manor is en- dowed with ,000 in added money, while i Churchill Downs suscribes 2,500 as its part of the Debutante purse. In each race the fields will be asked to compete over the five . furlongs distance. TOPS PROGRAM. Topping the program on Monday, May 30, the closing day of the meeting, the Bashford ! Manor will draw its starters from such of : the countrys most fashionable establish- , ments as those maintained by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, Herbert M. Woolf, J. E. Wide ner, Mrs. Frank J. Navin, Emerson F. Woodward, James W. Parrish, Charles T. Fisher, Hal Price Headley, Johnson N. Camden, J. Graham Brown, Arthur B. Hancock, Arnold Hanger, Anthony Pelleteri, Jack Howard, Thomas Piatt, Elwood Sachsenmaier, James C. Stone, William E. Smith, C. C. Van Meter, Leo J. Marks, A. L. Ferguson and others. As the leading nominator, Mrs. Mars, whose Milky Way Farm stable named eleven youngsters, all colts, may be conceded an excellent chance to score her third victory in successive years. Last spring her brilliant, but ill-fated, Sky Larking gave his first evidence of proving a juvenile of extraordinary merit in winning the Bashford Manor, while the season before Murph carried the Milky Way colors to their first success in the old Churchill Downs fixture. The Mars eligibles for the 1938 renewal, representing an outlay of more than 00,000, are Banner Man, Heel In, Magic Key, Time Please, Favorite Son, Sports Writer, Grey Dog, Giles County, Oh Location, Up the Creek and No Competition. All of these Mars youngsters are on the grounds and the stable may be expected to start one or two of the best of them. In this group are represented the sires Sickle, Pompey, Pharamond II., Flying Heels, Teddy, Gino, Sir Gallahad ni., Bull Dog and Gallant Fox. WHITNEY NOMINATIONS. Mrs. Whitney has nominated Cherry Jam, a gelding by St. Brideaux; In the Shade, a gelded son of Chicle; Third Degree, a colt by Questionnaire, and the. Chicle filly Twist. Six named by Woolf were sired by Insco, which stands at his Woolford Farm in Missouri. They are Ovid, Technician, Double Dip, Sherron Ann, Inscoelda, Unerring and Naadja. While Fishers Dixiana farm has six home-.breds to select from, a victory in this stake would not be his first, for he won the event in 1932 with In High. Two of his eligibles are Likly Lad and Batter, both of which saw campaigning in California. The others are two colts by Sweep All, a gelding by j High Time and a filly by Sweep All. y Mrs. Sloanes Brookmeade Stable hopes to furnish the winner from among six colts. They are Black Crusade, a son of Crusader; Boycott and Modern Youth, sons of High Quest; Co-Pilot by Cohort, Sun Arbor by Sun Briar, and Part Time sired by Time Maker. Parrish entries, all home-breds, include Stock Board, J. Ware, T. Marcus, Euneva and Myrica. The latter two are fillies and the others geldings. Pelleteri has named three, Brown three, Headley four, Howard five, Marks four, Piatt four and Woodward two. While there is a chance for Oddesa Farms Oddesa Beulah and Sachsenmaiers Charlotte Girl to get together in the Bashford Manor, they cannot do so in the Debutante because Sachsenmaiers filly was not made eligible for it. However, the list of Debutante nominees assures a large field for this re-established feature. Like the Bashford, virtually all the prominent owners to patronize that race are represented in the filly event. BUTTER BEANS TRIUMPH. In its last running the Debutante Stakes was won by Butter Beans, while previous winners include Alcibiades, dam of Menow; Anita Peabody, Fair Phantom, Bit of White, Regalo, Round the World and Amanda, which captured the first Debutante back in 1895. Besides Sky Larking, Murph and In High, some of the outstanding horses to score in the Bashford Manor, were Coldstream, St. Bernard, Miss Patience, Roguish Eye, Torchilla, Black Gold, Billy Kelly, Escoba, Harry Kelly, Hawthorne and Worth. The first Bashford Manor was run in 1902 and it was won by Von Rouse. Although more elaborate quarters were offered, Earl Sande preferred the barn he had last year for the horses he is bringing to Churchill Downs from California. Headed by the Derby favorite, Stagehand, the stable includes another Derby candidate, The Chief, and the older stake horses Scencshift-er and Fencing. The barn Sande will use sheltered the Maxwell Howard string for almost two months last spring and he was so pleased with the accommodations that he requested them again instead of one of the newer stables. The horses are due here Monday.
