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THREE-YEAR-OLD PROSPECTS OF 1939 T. M. DORSETT By N ORRIS BOYDEN L ; T. M. Dorsett had to start seventeen times last season before crashing into the stakes--winning class, but he was never far away from being a good colt and needs only to improve, as so many do, in their three-year-old form to be a formidable threat for honors. In being a son of Cohort and Michigan Girl, by Rire aux Larmes, and from a stout if not fashionable family, Joe W. Browns colt has a good right to be a better racer than he was last season. His important victory was in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs, in which he ran the mile over a good track in 1:38 with his weight up, defeating Steel Heels by two and a half lengths as Lightspur was third. Just prior to that engagement, he was fourth in the New England Futurity over a heavy course, but was beaten more than six lengths by Challedon, while Impound was second and Gilded Knight third. The New Orleans colt went to the races in the spring at Belmont Park and was well beaten in three starts. After a brief layoff, he tried for the Hyde Park Stakes at Arlington Park and was seventh, coming back a few days later to nose out Steel Heels in a dash of five furlones for maidens. In a five and one-half furlongs event at the Chicago course, T. M. Dorsett weakened in the stretch to be beaten six lengths by No Competition, and he did not start again for more than a month. Trying for the Grand Union Hotel Stakes. T. M. Dorsett was in the thick of action . until the final furlong, but he held on better in the Albany Handicap to land third place just a length back of Eight Thirty, and was awarded the place when that colt was disqualified in favor of Giles County. At Aqueduct the Brown representative ran five furlongs in :59, to defeat Impound and others, but in the Babylon Handicap he had to be content with third place back of Johnstown and Birch Rod. He was shipped to Havre de Grace for the Eastern Shore Handicap and ran third to Time Alone and Sweet Nancy, beaten a length. His connections thought well enough of him to start him in the Belmont Futurity, but he was unable to prove troublesome. Three overnight events followed at Jamaica and Empire City with T. M. Dorsett running second to Lovely Night and then taking the measure of such colts as Book Plate, Gilded Knight, Johns Heir and Our Mat. His stakes engagements at Narragan-sett and Churchill Downs completed the colts campaign. He wintered at New Orleans, where several weeks ago he suffered uremic poisoning, but his recovery is reported to have been effected and he has returned to his spring training since being shipped to Belmont Park. T. M. Dorsett acted like a sprinter when pitched against good company last season, but when better placed he had no difficulty holding on, even over the mile route of the K. J. C. Stakes. Trainer J. B. Theall believes the colt will improve and be a good three-year-old, basing his hope in part on the colts breeding. Cohort has sired Roman Soldier and Ciencia among others, and T. M. Dorsett is from a stakes winner whose brother, Michigan Boy, won the Louisiana Derby and other events requiring extensive ability. fOrby... fOrme Ormonde I J Angelica . X LRhodaB Hanover ,2 I Margerine " f P L Grand Geraldine. .......... "Desmond St. Simon J . LAbsse de Jouarre i I Grand Marnier ! Friars Balsam w I Mare by Galopin fu I C1 Tetrarch fRoiHerode Le Samaritain o - . Roxelane S LVahren Bona Vista Castania H 5 Abbazia flsinglass i Isonomy W S h Deadlock rtC iMrs. Butterwick... St. Simon g 1 I Miss Middlewick fi 5 1 If Rabelais f St. Simon lopin St. x - Angela S n 3 X LSatirica Satiety I Chaff EH r 3 C Lweeping Willow f Le Sancy Atlantic 0 . Gem of Gems v g lAccalmie Perplexe L and J t Rcfale 1 "Hilarious f Voter Friars Balsam a J . Mavourncen 5 X L Harpsichord Amphion . Atala J L Anna L. Daley fLissak Loyalist J j Capability I Anna Hastings Hastings Afterglow
