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1 Dozen Likely Starters in Wood Memorial Saturday i Fighting Fox Chief Threat of Fitzsimmons Stable Bourbon King to Represent H. P. Headley Nedayr Expected to Redeem Himself. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 27. There is an excellent chance that as many as a dozen will be seen under colors for the running of the Wood Memorial at Jamaica Saturday. Most of those that will be trying for the 0,000 prize, which is a gallop of a mile and seventy yards, are also engaged in the Kentucky Derby, to be run a week later at Churchill Downs and the Wood will decide for many whether or not they will make the trip to Kentucky. James Fitzsimmons will have a strong hand for the prize of the Metropolitan Jockey Club feature when it is expected he will saddle at least three and possibly four. Of these, Fighting Fox, that races for William Woodward is the chief stable hope. He will be attended by Quick Devil and Storm-scud, both of which have won at this meeting for the Wheatley Stable. The other that may be sent to the post is Ogden Phipps Magic Hour, another that has won at the meeting. STORMSCUD READY. Stormscud was sent to Havre de Grace, where he failed in the Chesapeake Stakes, but since returning to Aqueduct, he stepped a handy mile in 1:40 that showed readiness. Quick Devil and Fighting Fox went along for an impressive mile in 1:39 Tuesday morning, and it was an excellent final for their engagement. Magic Hour has done little since his winning effort, and it may be he will not be sent to the post. Others of the probable field are Hal Price Headleys Bourbon King, which was shipped to Jamaica after his impressive victory in the Chesapeake at Havre de Grace. Wood Song, which may pinch hit for Redbreast under the colors of the Greentree Stable; Willis Sharpe Kilmers Nedayr, Myron Selz-nicks Cant Wait; Mrs. W. Plunket Stewarts Pasteurized and the Woodland Farm Stables Opera Hat. Nedayr, though he failed in the Stuyyesant Handicap, which was won by Merry Lassie, is sure to show to better advantage in the Wood and yesterday morning, at Belmont Park, he went along for a handy mile in 1:41. Wood Song also was out at Belmont and he was not asked for his best when he stepped his mile in 1:42. OPERA HAT IMPRESSES. Opera Hat was one of the most impressive winners at the Jamaica meeting on the occasion of his only start. Since that ance he has worked well for Feakes and, while he is not an eligible for the Derby, 1 he surely is a menace to the eligibles which are engaged in the Saturday prize. There may be some additions and some ! eliminations from the list given, but training ; operations would indicate that the Wood will bring out a representative field and its run-1 ning may offer a new line on the Kentucky j Derby as far as the colts that have trained 1 in the East are concerned.
