Classic Stakes And American Derby Eligibles: Whirlaway Tops Nomination Lists for Two Great Chicago Features; Homebred Juvenile Has Six Lengths to Spare Over Flag Trumpeter, Daily Racing Form, 1941-05-16

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CLASSIC STAKES AND AMERICAN DERBY ELIGIBLES Whirlaway Tops Nomination Lists for Two Great Chicago Features Homebred Juvenile Has Six Lengths to Spare Over Flag Trumpeter TrumpeterWhirlaway Whirlaway sensational winner of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby and the Preakncss and current hero of the American turf heads the list of eligibles for Chicagos two great stakes for threeyearolds the Classic to be run July 26 at Arlington Park and the American Derby scheduled for August 23 at Wash ¬ ington Park ParkA A checkup of the final payments for those two 40000 added fixtures was completed today It revealed the following facts factsSixtythree Sixtythree horses are eligible for Arling ¬ ton Parks Classic Stakes fiftyfour colts six geldings and one filly from the original nal list of 179 nominees nomineesSixtyfour Sixtyfour are eligible for Washington Parks American Derby fiftyseven colts six geldigns and one filly from the original list of 176 176Altogether Altogether seventytwo of the nations leading threeyearolds are on the two lists Fiftyfive of them are eligible for both stakes The Classic drew six colts and two fillies not in the American Derby while nine colts not in the Classic were kept in the Derby DerbyPIRATE PIRATE SUPPLEMENTARY ENTRY ENTRYThe The American Derby list includes the Cali ¬ fornia Derby winner Pirate for whom the 1500 supplementary entry fee was paid the only such payment for either stake stakeBesides Besides Whirlaway the list of eligibles for both stakes includes virtually all of those who followed Whirlaway around the Ken ¬ tucky Derby and Preakness courses and in addition a number of wellregarded colts which have not faced the speed of Warren Wrights star Here are the better knowns Porters Cap King Cole Bold Irishman Ocean Blue Curious Coin Attention Dis ¬ pose Our Boots New World Monday Lunch Magnificent Blue Pair Yankee Chance Martian WireTapper Crowfoot Fogabala and Orange River RiverExploration Exploration Gun Bearer Jongleur Faust II Scrappy W Fairymant and the fillies Nasca and Misty Isle are in the Classic only onlyThose Those in the American Derby only are Pirate Afghanistan Air Master Bulldinger Delray Drumont Itabo Magic Sword and Wise Brave BraveCleaveland Cleaveland Putnams Moja is the only filly in both stakes Six geldings Blenweed Bryan Station Daily Trouble Happy Pilot Le Chat and New Englander are on both lists listsCol Col E R Bradley who won the Classic in 1929 with Blue Larkspur and the American Derby with Boot to Boot in 1926 and Black Helen in 1935 kept his three nominees Buf flehead Best Seller and Bryan Station eligi ¬ ble for both stakes as did Valdina Farm with its three Valdina Paul Valdina Groom and Valdina Dude DudeSONS SONS OF CLASSIC WINNERS WINNERSThe The Classic winners Blue Larkspur Gal ¬ lant Fox and his son Granville are repre ¬ sented by sons in both stakes Blue Lark ¬ spur by Ocean Blue Crowfoot and Best Sel ¬ ler Gallant Fox by Perisphere and Gran ¬ ville by Greville GrevilleThose Those two great Chicago favorites Equi ¬ poise and Discovery both have sons in the Classic and Derby Equipoise is represented by Attention and Swing and Sway in both races New World Dispose and Atom Smasher sons of Discovery are candidates for both the Classic and Derby while Ex ¬ ploration another son of the great handicap star is one of A G Vanderbilts hopefuls for the Classic ClassicThe The Porter is represented by Porters Cap and Gun Bearer the latter in the Classic only Besides Calumet Farms Whirlaway and Blenweed the Epsom Derby winner Blenheim II has another son in both Chi ¬ cago stakes Fogabala for which Mrs E Graham Lewis paid 17000 as a yearling yearlingIn In each instance the final payments estab ¬ lished new records in the numbei of eligi ¬ bles just as other payment date also found new high marks for this years renewals renewalsBoth Both stakes closed last October 15 with an entry fee of 25 Second payments of 50 were made on February 15 for ninetyseven Classic and ninetynine Derby nominees With the final subscriptions and the 40000 added to each stake by the racing associa ¬ tions the value of the Classic is increased to 55625 and the American Derby to 57250 as of May 1 Each starter will pay 750 more Thus each of these important stakes is expected to gross between 60000 and 70000 depending on the number o starters startersFinal Final eligibility list for Classic and Amer ¬ ican Derby Atom Smasher SmasherAttention Monday Lunch LunchNew AttentionBest Attention New Englander EnglanderNew Best Seller SellerBryan New World WorldOcean Bryan Station StationBufflehead Ocean Blue BlueOrange Bufflehead BuffleheadBlenweed Orange River RiverOur Blenweed Our Boots BootsPerisphere BlenweedBlue Blue Pair PairBold Perisphere PerispherePorters Bold Irishman IrishmanBull Porters Cap CapRichmond Bull Reigh ReighBushwhacker Richmond RichmondSheriff Bushwhacker BushwhackerCavalier Sheriff Culkin CulkinSpringwood Cavalier Springwood CavalierCrowfoot CrowfootCurious Crowfoot Stimady StimadySun SpringwoodStimady Curious Coin CoinDaily Sun Eager EagerSwain Daily Trouble TroubleDispose Swain Dispose DisposeFogabala SwainSwing Swing and Sway SwayTankard Fogabala FogabalaGrand Tankard TankardTo Grand Party PartyGreville To a Tee TeeValdina Greville Valdina Dude DudeValdina GrevilleHandy Handy Justice JusticeHappy Valdina Groom GroomValdina Happy Pilot PilotHi Valdina Paul PaulWelcome Hi Pov PovKansas Welcome Pass PassWesley KansasKing Kansas Wesley A AWhirlaway King Cole ColeLe Whirlaway Le Chat ChatLiberior WhirlawayWireTapper WireTapper WireTapperYankee Liberior LiberiorMagnificent Yankee Chance ChanceZacharias Magnificent MagnificentMan Zacharias Man About Town TownMartian Moja Martian MartianMoja Imported Eligible for Classic only Exploration Misty Isle IsleFairymant Fairymant Nasca NascaFaust Faust II Scrappy W WGun Gun Bearer Jongleur Imported ImportedEligible Eligible for American Derby only Afghanistan Drumont DrumontAir Air ItabpBulldinger Master Itabp Bulldinger Magic Sword SwordDelray Delray Wise Brave BraveSupplementary Supplementary entry for American Derby Pirate


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