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CALIFORNIA DERBY SATURDAY Macaroos Lavengro Monopolizing Attention of West Coast Fans. Bommy, Kings Heir and Diavolo Boy Also Eligible for ,000 Bay Meadows Stake. SAN MATEO, Calif., April 6 The California Derby, which is to be run Saturday at Bay Meadows, promises to provide a toothsome delicacy to hungry turf fans whose appetite has been whetted by the doings of dozens of top three-year-olds in recent weeks. Most of the interest in the San Mateo feature, which carries a purse of ,000 added, lies in the showing of one of the best Derby hopes which campaigned in Florida with some of the best which showed their wares on the coast. They are Specify and Lavengro. Specify, A. A. Baronis crack three-year-old, will not be a starter in the California Derby. In a message to William P. Kyne, general manager of Bay Meadows, Baroni stated that Specify, now stabled at Santa Anita, was running a temperature and would not be shipped north for the Derby, which is second only to the Bay Meadows Handicap In importance at the present meeting. Specify had drawn 122 pounds for the event and was equal high-weight with the Macaroo Stables Lavengro. OUTSTANDING CONTENDER. The withdrawal of the Baroni colt from the Derby leaves Lavengro outstanding favorite for the race. The colt, which formerly raced for Norman W. Church, has been training well since his arrival at Bay Meadows. Lavengros chief opposition in the Derby is expected to come from W. E. Boeings Roy T., and Mrs. E. Voynows Rommy. The latter, working for the three-year-old event, went a mile in 1:44 over a slow track this morning. Great interest is centered in the first California appearance of Lavengro since the spring meetings of a year ago in the San Francisco sector, where the black gelding captured two home-bred stakes. At that time Lavengro was carrying the colors of Norman W. Church, who, because of his quarrel with the California Horse Racing Board, shipped the son of Diavolo and the other crack racers in his stable, east. They campaigned with brilliant success on the New York and Maryland circuits last fall. During the winter the Los Angeles sportsmans string distinguished itself at Miami. DEFEATED LAWRIN. Lavengro twice defeated Lawrin, now one of the favorites to win the Kentucky Derby. However, in the 0,000 Flamingo Stakes, in which Lavengro was the favorite, he was beaten two and tlyee-quarters lengths by Lawrin after having led the field for the first mile. Owner Church andtrainer Fitzgerald decided that Lavengro was a trifle too frail to carry high weight the mile and one-eighth distance at that time and so eased up on the slender and rather ungainly fellow. They shipped him along with the rest of the string to Bay Meadows. Lavengro is the first California-bred to win a stake race east of the Rockies since Mor-vich captured the Kentucky Derby sixteen years ago. Lavengro was bred by Church at Deep Clif f e Ranch, near San Jose. He has started only eight times in his career, winning half his races and finishing second in one other. He has earned ,680 in stakes and purses. PLENTY OF SPEED. Whether the gelding, which probably has more early speed than any other three-year-old today, will be able to carry that speed over the one and one-sixteenth miles distance of the California Derby, is a question that will not be answered until Saturday afternoon. Rommy, which was close up to Sir Raleigh, Cant Wait, Specify, Kings Heir, Count Atlas and other good ones at Santa Anita, is likely to prove a hard one to beat. Roy T., which raced well against slightly inferior horses at the Arcadia meeting, also rates a good chance Saturday. He beat such good ones as Indian Lodge, Minulus, Our Carolyne and Cant Wait. Iron Hills, which won a 0,000 California-bred stake in December is also in the field and would seem to have an outside chance if he runs one of his best races. A few others in the probable field rate fair chances.
