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6 NEDAYR AND FIGHTING FOX Two Prominent Kentucky Derby Eligibles Start Today in Different Races at Jamaica. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 22 Nedayr and Fighting Fox, two of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby, will make their first appearances under colors as three-year-olds at Jamaica Saturday afternoon. Each shapes up a strong choice. Nedayr is a promised starter in the renewal of the ,500 added Stuyvesant Handicap, stellar offering on the excellent Saturday program arranged by racing secretary-handicapper Campbell, while Fighting Fox, currently second choice to Stagehand in future book wagering on the May 7 classic at Louisville, has picked a softer spot, the three-quarters of the Forest, an allowance test for three-year-olds. The appearance of this pair will far overshadow anything else on the week-end program at the local Metropolitan Jockey Club grounds. MAY MEET IN WOOD. It was generally expected that Fighting Fox and Nedayr might meet in a race conditioned for Tuesday, but it now seems more plausible they will not actually measure strides before the running of the 0,000 Wood Memorial here a week away. That "Derby preview" brings them into competition today for tighteners. It is the consensus one of the two will win the major offering of the season at Jamaica next Sat- Continued on twenty-seventh page. NEDAYR AND FIGHTING FOX Continued ftoiri first page. urday, so folks will want to see how they look arid act Saturday. They have been doing well in training hereabouts this spring, although neither is a flashy work horse, and both are anxious to run. From present indications only a continuation of fair skies and a fast track is needed to see them in action. Light showers visited this neighborhood late Thursday, but today the sun again broke through and the Jamaica strip was not far ,off .s best. With the overhead conditions continuing as they are, a crowd eclipsing the record gathering of some 20,000 on opening day is expected Saturday. In addition to the Stuyvesant and the Forest, they will see some of the better two-year-olds hook up in the fourth, an allowance affair at five-eighths, which has drawn a good field.
