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i i j j I j j j j . ; i r i j . j i j 1 J 3 i BULL LEA AND MENOW Clash Again in Todays Featured Blue Grass Stakes. Noted Pair to Be Main Attraction of Well Arranged Program Only Four Starters Named. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 27. One of the outstanding starters in the forthcoming Kentucky Derby may be expected to emerge from tomorrows running of the Blue Grass Stakes, which will feature the close of Keenelands most successful meeting, even though the ,000 added test of a mile and one furlong has drawn only four candidates overnight. The Blue Grass Stakes, which was revived last year, again is an important qualifying test for the Derby, as it was in the days of the old Kentucky Association track and won by such horses as Bubbling Over and Black Servant. Of the four candidates for tomorrows running, three have been regarded as among the leading Derby prospects all spring. Probable favorite at short odds is Bull Lea, which has developed steadily this spring and is going into tomorrows engagement fresh from his performance last Thursday, when he established a new Keeneland record for the mile and one-sixteenth in his first outing of the year. One of the victims in that race of Warren Wrights good son of Bull Dog and Rose Leaves, was the Belmont Futurity winner Menow, and Hal Price Headleys colt is considered the principal opponent of the Calumet colorbearer tomorrow. THE CHIEF ABSENTEE. Menow will have Dah He" as a running mate and last of the field is the Greentree Stables Redbreast, which was, shipped here from Belmont Park especially for the en-; gagement. The Chief, stablemate of Stagehand, was to have been a Blue Grass con-. testant, but in a late change in plans by Earl Sande, the colt was kept at Churchill Downs. With a field of four, the Blue Grass will have a gross value of ,690 of which the winners net share will be ,855, while sec- ond money will be ,000, third ",000 and fourth 00. Three of the candidates underwent easy speed tests this morning, Dah He being the exception. Menow breezed three furlongs in :37 and Redbreast a half mile in :48, Continued on twentieth page. BULL LEAAJD MENOW Continued from first page. while Bull Lea was strongly restrained while going six furlongs over the Calumet track in 1:18. Being stake winners, Menow and Red-i4 ; breast each will carry 123 pounds in the Blue Grass and give two pounds to Dah He and I Bull Lea. His performance last week having ; made a fine impression, Bull Lea is expected to be held at short odds although Menow has regained some of his following , since his disappointing effort against the Calumet colt by virtue of his satisfactory ; workout Monday morning, in which he ran , the mile and an eighth in 1:55, in easy fashion. UNKNOWN QUALITY. Redbreasts quality is unknown other than he was a good two-year-old last season. In his lone start of the year he was unplaced I in a six furlongs race after a slow beginning, . but the son of Chicle and Robins Egg r is expected to fancy the Blue Grass distance. 1 He has made a fine impression on , local horsemen. A continuance of the warm, bright weather , which has prevailed here for several days, is , 3 expected and plans have been made to accommodate one of the largest crowds in the history of the track. The field for the Blue Grass Stakes follows: PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1 tDah He 121 R. Dotter 2 Redbreast 123 A. Robertson 3 Bull Lea 121 ...I. Anderson 4 tMenow 123 P. Roberts H. P. Headley entry.
