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: THREE-YEAR-OLD PROSPECTS OF 1938 MEIMOW Bay colt, by Pharamond II. Alcibiades; owned by Hal Price Headley. Trained by Duval Headley. .By NORRIS ROYDEN No Belmont Futurity winner has ever won the Kentucky Derby, and this is the jinx confronting Menow. Yet it holds no terror for Hal Price Headley, owner and breeder of the colt, and he is pointing the son of Pharamond II. and Alcibiades, by Supremus, for the Churchill Downs classic, following a training program calculated to prepare Menow thoroughly while taking as few chances as possible of encountering a recurrence of Menows tendon trouble. Menow was hurt in his final trial for the Pimlico Futurity, a race in which he would have been a strong favorite, but the injury healed sufficiently for him to begin galloping again three months later. In order to escape the mud so frequently evident at northern tracks in the spring, Menow was sent to Hialeah Park for the foundation work of his Derby training. Trainer Duval Headley has been able to bring Menow along according to the plan mapped out for him, and if all goes well, the big, well-made colt will return to competition soon at Keeneland, where his soundness not only will be thoroughly tested, but his connections will be able to obtain a better line on his chances of racing over a distance of ground. When Sky Larking met with his ill-fated accident in the Champagne Stakes, a race which Menow won, the Headley colt went on to capture the Futurity in such impressive fashion that he was generally heralded as the juvenile champion. Taking up 119 pounds in the Futurity, the son of Pharamond ran the six and one-half furlongs straightaway in 1:15, representing a new worlds record. Menow was getting seven pounds from Tiger and three from Fighting Fox, which finished third, but he drew away from them towards the end in such a fashion as to indicate that the difference in the weight had little bearing. Menow made only six starts as a juvenile, beginning in June at Washington Park, where he finished second to Employer in sloppy going. He then graduated by hanging a nose defeat on Pharacase with the going very heavy. His third start was in the Washington Park Futurity, in which he had to be content with second honors, two lengths back of Tiger, while beating Teddys Comet and C-Note. Becoming ill after that race, Menow did not start again until more than a month later, his engagement being in the Arlington Futurity, for which he wasnt quite ready. He defeated only one horse in the field of eight, but finished only four lengths back of the dead-heating Tiger and Teddys Comet. Trainer Headley thereupon gave the son of Pharamond plenty of time in which to thoroughly get over his illness, and hurried training while preparing him in a manner better suited to the development of a growthy colt. So Menow did not sport silks again until a month and a half later, or in the Champagne. Displaying excellent speed, the Headley colt drew away from his opposition in the final three furlongs of the six and one-half furlongs dash to score by four lengths over Bull Lea as Fighting Fox was third and The Chief fourth, his time being 1:17. Then he improved smartly for his wonderful performance in the Futurity. Pharamond has yet to turn out a topnotch stayer, although he now is established as one of the countrys leading sires. Better mares were bred to him after his first couple of crops arrived, and one of these was Alcibiades, an Oaks winner out of a daughter of Roi Herode. As Alcibiades was by the Ultimus horse, Supremus, plenty of speed abounds in her pedigree, just as it does in that of Pharamond, a brother of Sickle, which also has proven very successful in this country. Menow, while large, is very compact and hardly the established type of stayers, but the abundance of his speed and class makes him an outstanding prospect for the classics, if his connections are able to keep him serviceably sound. Cyllene 5 Bna vsta Arcadia Maid Marian Hampton Quiver . Springfield fSainfoin n Bromus . . J Sanda - . . LCherry St. Simon c - , . i Sunrise St. Simon Galopin f Chaucer ...... St. Angela t, e l Canterbury Pilgrim 3 Tristan . L J! -i Pilgrimage . f Minoru.: Cyllene j LSeremssima J Mother Siegol 2 L.GondoIette Loved One O " -i Dongola "3 J" Commando Domino " g " r Ultimus lEmmaC. a g L Running Stream Domino a r J Dancing Water J 1 C John o Gaunt Isinglass , lMandy Hamilton La Fleche -a " LMy Sweetheart J Galeazzo 3 " Lady Chancellor Ji TLe Samaritain Le Sancy g f Roi Herode Clementina . LRoxelane War Dance J f Rose of York J rCicero Cyllene o .Lady Cicero -i Gas K Lste. Claire II Isinglass Santa Brigida
