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Colored Folk Play Big Part in Sport Brown Dick Regarded as Most Famous of All Negro Trainers — Started Buckner LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 1.— Negroes continue to play a most important part in American racing. They are holding their own as trainers and showing themselves to be good horsemen. Probably the most famous of all colored conditioners is "Brown Dick," a Louisville citizen, regarded by many veteran followers of the sport as the best of them all. Other Negroes, sharing fame with Brown, are Bob Campbell, Will Perkins, Russ Colston, French Brooks, Will Walker, Chuck Walker and Marshall Lilly. Now at Churchill Downs is Hunt Buckner, who has been training thoroughbreds for half a century. Buckner got his start under "Brown Dick." The veteran conditioner likes to talk of his favorite horse, Round the World, a winner of 38 stake events during the seasons of 1910 to 1912, inclusive. Miller Training For Gelb George Miller, who has been with the runners for nearly 40 years as a breeder, foreman and farm manager, is now looking after the horses belonging to Mrs. A. N. Gelb, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Heading the Gelb contingent is the clever three-year-old filly, New Glory, a nominee for the 67th renewal of the Kentucky Oaks on Saturday, May 9. Nathan Cantrall is particularly well pleased with the two-year-old colt, Gallop Dawn; Carl Sitgraves has five horses in his charge and Frank Taylor is training six head. Other Negro horsemen on the grounds are Raymond White, W. L. Jef ferson, Elza Brown and Arthur Perossiefc Hopes of the Negro colony that one of their number might have a starter in this years Kentucky Derby were high when Syls Jimmy, conditioned by Henry Louden, was nominated. The colt will not run in the Derby, however, but will be pointed for an engagement in the American Derby at Washington Park to be decided later in the season. Louden has been connected with the turf for 32 years and Syls Jimmy is the favorite horse of all time as far as he is concerned. Syls Jimmy won several important engagements as a two-year-old during 1941.
