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HASH STARTS AND WINS Greentree Stables "Dark Horse" for Derby Victor at Keeneland. Questionnaire Colt Finds it Difficult Beating Viscounty by a Head Gold Flag Defeats Good Band. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 19. Hash, one of the Kentucky Derby dark horses, made good in his three-year-old debut in the Slickaway Purse at Keeneland Park this afternoon. The performance of the Green-tree Stable colt was not as impressive as his best admirers would prefer, however. The son of Questionnaire and Delicacy was able to win by only a head over Viscounty, bearing the Valdina Farm silks, as C. H. Clearys Calexico was a distant third. The Tatter two also arc eligible to the Churchill Downs feature. The Slickaway was a test of a mile and one-sixteenth and Hash was installed an odds-on favorite, with Viscounty the second choice. His weight was 111 pounds, as Eddie Arcaro was a pound over. Arcaro sent the son of Questionnaire Delicacy into an immediate lead and then took a good hold of him as Calexico went up on the outside to force the pace. In the run down the back stretch as Hash was rated off the inner rail, the track not being thoroughly dried out and classified as good, Viscounty rushed up on the inside to take command with a couple of lengths to Spare on the far turn. Arcaro bided his time in the run around the turn but, passing the quarter pose, ne snoon up tue uiccuucc un. vigorously and Hash began reducing the advantage held by the leader. SPARKLING FINISH. Passing the furlong post Arcaro used his whip again and Hash responded by steadily wearing down the Texas colt to drop his head in front a few yards out. In the meantime, Calexico had dropped back gradually as the two other starters trailed well back. Hash ran the distance in 1:46, three ana three-fifths seconds off the track record. Cold weather continued to prevail and the attendance was of moderate proportions, but much interest was displayed nevertheless. Gold Flag, capable sprinter in the Shandon Farm stable of P. A. and R. J. Nash, began his campaign as a five-year-old in auspicious fashion by taking the Claiborne Handicap, in which he was an outsider in the wagering on the ten starters. The gelded son of Sun Flag and Golden Lassie II., closing with a rush on the outside in the final three furlongs, triumphed by two and a half lengths over the Tall Trees Stables Last Message. W. F. Morgans The Fighter, the favorite, was another neck back as Biscayne Blue was fourth. IN EASY VICTORY. Warren Yarberry had Gold Flag in hand in the early stages while guiding him to the outside, but upon reaching the turn, the Chicago-owned veteran began moving up and he was ready to bid with The Fighter for command entering the stretch. Finding the favorite tiring, Gold Flag went on past to win easily, while Last Message finished well after being caught in close quarters on the turn to take second honors. Biscayne Blue, which met with early trouble, came again to be fourth. A. L. Fergusons Flash Flash, with Jimmy Bryson up, proved best of the dozen plater Continued on fifteenth page. I , I 1 j 1 ! 1 1 I HASH STARBAND WINS Continued from first page. juveniles clashing over the Headley course in the opening event. The daughter of EpithetThunder Flash won by slightly more than a length over Friedberg and Axtons Some Polly as A. G. Tarns Brilliant Gold was another half length back and close before Valeo and several others. The Blue Ridge Farms Witan, the second choice, just managed to nose out Jadva, the favorite, representing Mrs. E. Oros, for principal honors in the second raoe, engaging a capacity field of ordinai-y platers. William Kenneys Valvesta, an outsider, was a close third and probably would have won but for encountering bad luck right after the start. Cape Race was fourth. ANOTHER ARCARO SUCCESS. I Wake Robin, from the Greentree Stable and ridden by Eddie Arcaro, proved much the best of the eleven likely maiden juvenile colts and geldings going over the short course in the third event. In hand in the late stages after having been sent along under urging from the beginning, the gelded son of Chicle Robins Egg won by three and one-half lengths over W. F. Morgans The Ranger as J. W. Parrishs Centuple was another length back. Bobs Squad was fourth. Margo G., a five-year-old gray mare owned by the Hopeful Stock Farm, scored her maiden victory in outrunning five other lowly platers in the fourth race, at a mile and one furlong. Ridden by apprentice G. Wallace, the daughter of Fair Wind By Play got away with a considerable amount of rough tactics in taking the decision by a head over Indian Lake Stables For Ro- mance, the favorite, as J. O. Keenes Mr. Smith was half a dozen lengths farther back. Away in front, Margo G. crossed over in the run to the first turn to bother For Ro- mance and Mr. Smith, and twice when the latter attempted to move up on the inside she was intimidated by the leader, finally tiring in the stretch. For Romance moved forward on the outside in the final straightaway and seemed ready to race past Margo G., when she tired. The winner was an outsider.
