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ENGLANDS FAMOUS EPSOM DERBY TODAY TWENTY-NINE NAMED Prospective Starters Include Two American-Owned Three-Year-Olds. One Hundred Fifty-Ninth Running to Attract Usual Large Crowd — t Blue Peter the Favorite. Special Cablegram. EPSOM, England, May 23.— Racing enthusiasts from all parts of the world will congregate at Epsom Downs tomorrow for the running of the most famous of all horse races— the Derby Stakes. Twenty-nine were named overnight. This will be the one hundredth and fifty-ninth consecutive renewal of our premier three-year-old classic, which was inaugurated May 4, 1780, and attracted only four runners. It was won by Sir Charles Bun-burys Diomed, a son of Florizel, which was subsequently exported to America, where he founded a great blood-stock dynasty. The race was then a one-mile event, being lengthened to its present distance of one mile and a half four years later. Though the race was always run at Epsom, the present Derby course was first used in 1872. Not until 1934 was the exact distance one mile, four furlongs and five yards authorized. Never in its long and colorful history has the Derby made more appeal. Interest is added in the race by an international touch with so many foreign-owned horses in the field. FORM BASIS. Many experts believe the result of the first classic, the Two Thousand Guineas, is the best basis on which to predict tomorrows result. Thus, they declare whole-heartedly for the favorite, Blue Peter. Lord Rose-berys colt is a short-priced choice in the ante-post Derby betting strictly on what-he accomplished in winning the one-mile fixture at Newmarket last month. In that particular trial, Blue Peter, though not generally believed in his top form, defeated many of the leading rivals for the Derby, including his stablemate, Admirals Walk second, Fairstone third, the French invader Romeo II. fourth, Dia-doque fifth, Hypnotist sixth, Rogerstone Castle seventh, and Atout Maitre, Casanova, Fox Cub, Dhoiti, Fair Chance, Trigu-ero and Wheatland. Though Blue Peter and Admirals Walk have not carried silks since the running of the Guineas, three of the horses which finished behind them have scored in long distance events. Fairstone won over the mile and a quarter distance in the Newmarket Stakes and Hypnotist and Triguero have triumphed over the Derby distance of one mile and a half. WON DEE STAKES. Triguero won the Dee Stakes at Chester May 4 in the poor time of 2:42. This was exactly the same time recorded by Lord Derbys Epsom hope, Heliopolis, in winning the Chester Vase over the same Chester course, one mile, four furlongs and fifty-three yards, two days earlier. Critics preferred the race run by Triguero, which scored leisurely, even if his opposition Continued on seventh page. 1 I • 1 ; ; j 1 : j j 1 1 » 1 1 1 1 : : , 1 I I ! 3 j I , I I I e ■ ENGLANDS FAMOUS EPSOM DERBY TO BE RUN TODAY Continued from first page. was not so formidable as that which clashed with Heliopolis in the Chester Vase. Trigu-ero won with the well known "ton in hand." The performance was so greatly in advance of those he gave in the Craven Stakes and Two Thousand Guineas that it not only denotes considerable improvement, but also suggests that Triguero requires a distance of ground to reveal his best qualities Heliopolis, of sour disposition, had to be I hard driven to keep his place in the running J of the Chester Vase. If he should be in the ! same mood at Epsom a rough passage in the big field might result and ruin his chances. Heliopolis did not contest the Guineas. The American-owned Hypnotist gave a satisfactory performance when easily winning the Derby Trial Stakes over the Derby route at Lingfield Park. The son of Hyperion and Flying Gal II. did all that was asked of him in workmanlike style and showed much improvement over his earlier effort in the Guineas. Fairstones Newmarket Stakes victory was also easily achieved. One is prepared to see Fairways son make a bold bid for victory at Epsom tomorrow, and no more popular result could be hoisted than the success of the horse that will carry the silks of the legless South American owner, Sir Abe Bailey. Blue Peter is favored at 11 to 4, with Hypnotist second choice at 17 to 2 and Fox Cub next in demand at 21 to 2. Heliopolis is 13 to 1 and Admirals Walk, 15 to 1. The others are rated rank outsiders. Horse. Wt. Owner. Admirals Walk.. . .126 . . i Sir J. Jarvis Casanova 126 Lady Z. Wernser Buxton 126 .H. Sidebottom Blue Peter. _ 126. Lord Rosebery Atout Maitre 126 H. G. Blagrave Hastings ......... .126 M. Goudchaux Fairstone 126 Sir A. Bailey fHypnotist 126 W. Woodward Triguero 126 W. Barnett Bellman 126: Mrs. L. Corbett Vesperian 126 Sir G. Bullough Rogerstone Castle. 126 Mrs. D. Thomas Diadoque 126 S. Vlasto tSalford H 126 R. B. Strassburger King Legend 126 ..J. V. Rank Major Brackey. 126 J. A. Phillips Snowcap 126 R. Middlemas Mauna Kea 126 R. McAlpine Dhoti 126 Aga Khan Pointis 126 Prince Aly Khan Fairchance 126 R. Middlemas Romeo n 126 .Princs De F. Lucinge Fox Cub 126 E. Esmond Heliopolis .126 Lord Derby Wheatland .-. 126 W. Barnett Fairfax 126 Miss D. Paget Ortiz 126 J. D. Cohn Larchfield 126.. Mrs. J. Dines Rhoderic Dhu 126 J. Gorman I •[American-owned.
