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LAWRIN AT THE DOWNS Twenty-Six Kentucky Derby Candidates Now at Louisville. Feng Also Arrives From Oaklawn Park Colonel Winn Brings Deluge of Mail. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 6 Lawrin, winner of Hialeahs Flamingo Stakes under the silks of Herbert M. Woolf of Kansas City, and Mrs. Payne Whitneys Perfect Peace and Gangplank, arrived this morning following a fast trip from Miami to augment the steadily growing colony of Kentucky Derby eligibles at Churchill Downs. Lawrin, son of Insco, with the current Derby favorite, Stagehand, give winter racing the strongest representation in the long history of the Kentucky classic and he commanded most attention as the three Derby horses came off the cars. The usual examinations, made after the horses had reached their barns, indicated that all were in good physical condition. Also getting in this morning was Mrs. Kirby Ramseys Feng, which came from Hot Springs, where he took part in the Arkansas Derby last Saturday after haying started in the Louisiana Derby at New Orleans. PROMINENT CANDIDATES. This quartet brought to twenty-six the number of Kentucky Derby eligibles at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park, among those more prominently mentioned in connection with the 0,000 added classic being Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Tiger and Mountain Ridge, Myron Selznicks Cant Wait, Bert Friends Co-Sport, Mrs. Thelma Otts Employer, the Millsdale Stables Garry and Joe Schenck, a stablemate of Lawrin, and Emerson F. Woodwards Lassator. Lawrin is one of the first half dozen choices for the Derby, a ranking he won by his spectacular racing in Florida, where he also accounted for the Flamingo Stakes and a graded handicap, in which he defeated older horses. Trained by B. A. Jones, the Woolf home-bred has come from a long way back to occupy his present lofty position among the 103 Derby nominees. He raced well enough last year, but he did not show any - pretense to stake quality and, like Stagehand, his rapid improvement and development was one of the outstanding highlights of the winter. REDBREAST FORMIDABLE. Perfect Peace and Gangplank are outranked by Redbreast, the Greentree. Stables chief dependence for another victory in the Derby which was won in 1931 with the superlative Twenty Grand, holder of the Derby and Churchill Downs track record of 2:01 for the mile and a quarter. Now In the East, Redbreast is scheduled to make his three-year-old debut in that territory and later come on to Churchill Downs. Also getting in with the Woolf and Green-tree horses today were Brush Hook and Eli Yale, Greentree nominees for the Clark Handicap, and Robert L., Woolfords eligible for the same stake. In all, Greentree horses to reach here in charge of Leigh Cotton numbered ten, trainer John M. Gaver taking eleven direct to Keeneland from Florida, where he had the entire twenty-one. Lawrin headed a consignment of ten Woolford horses which joined nineteen others which came in yesterday. Nine more coming from Oaklawn Park will round out the stable, the largest at the Downs. Continued on twentieth page. LAWRIN ATTHE DOWNS Continued from first page.J Col. M. J. Winn, president of the American Turf Association, returned last night from Chicago and early today went over all improvements and construction work at the Derby track. He said that every mail continues to bring letters of inquiry regarding Derby Day, which he says will be the biggest ever.
