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Divided Thoroughbred Club Purse And Stony Point at Downs Today, j | [ ; Latter Event Draws Several t Kentucky Derby Hopefuls to Match Strides at One Mile LOUISVILLE. Ky.. April 19— The Keeneland organization presents a pretentious week-end program at Churchill Downs here tomorrow, with the appearance of several of the leading Kentucky Derby candidates in the mile Stony Point Purse surrounding that affair with more interest than the Thoroughbred Club Dinner Purse, which is the days nominal feature. The Dinner Purse will be decided in two divisions, with nine promised starters in each, none of them very familiar to turf enthusiasts. There are nine also in the Stony Point, in which M. B. Goffs Sky-tracer, runner-up in the Flamingo, looms formidably as the one to beat. Under the conditions of this affair, Flares hard hitting son carries 110. and gets seven pounds concession from A. C. Ernsts Alorter and Alfred Parkers By Jimminy. Probably if it were a handicap. Skytracer would be top weight. The Lexington contingent concedes Neville Dunns Fire Power an outside chance, but that sentiment is more geographical than circumstantial, off the cold testimony of the charts. Fire Power has up 114. Five Are Blue Grass Eligibles Rounding out the Stony Point field are D. Fergusons Bell Buzzer, Erlanger Stables Shut Up, J. V. Maggios American Eagle, Col. C. V. Whitneys Signal Bloke, and My Pop, who races for W. E. Smith. Each of this quintet carries 110. All are Derby eligibles. Five also are eligible for next Wednesdays 0,000 Blue Grass Stakes, of a mile and a furlong. These are Skytracer, Alorter, By Jimminy, Shut Up and Signals Bloke. Skytracer has trained forwardly since coming here from Hialeah Park and Alort-! ! ers camp believes he will perform more creditably over the clay-Downs surface than he did on the sandy Miami Jockey Club strip. By Jimminy has had a race at the meeting, finishing far back against I Thoroughbred Club Dinner Purse, ,500, Two-Year-Olds, Four and One-Half Furlongs. First Division. PP. Horse. Owner. Wt, 1— Gaga D. A. Head lev 112 2— Alices Pet G.H.Stevens 112 3— Transflint O. J. Williams 112 4 — Caroline Ann* N. Dunn 112 5— Shreve H. E. Folk 115 6 — Four Bells F. E. Johnstone 112 7— Sugar Chest T.C.Piatt 112 8 — Cross Bayou I. Drymon 112 9 — Contrary Mary K. Gurnee 112 Second Division. PP. Horse. Owner. Wt. 1— Rio Rouge J. W. Rodgers 115 2— Fire Ship Col.C.V.Whitneyll2 3 — Quintero D. Ferguson 115 4 — Provoker R. Goose 115 5— Darby Duluth J.W.Galbreath 115 6 — See D. I. J. Collins 115 7_Loved G. P. Taubman 112 8— Flinette H. C. Goff 112 9— Lady Kentucky T. Piatt 112 ! I older horses he conceded weight on the . scale in the Phoenix of six furlongs last Saturday. He has since been a mile at a 1:41 clip. The Dinner Purse has a distinctly social overtone, with members of the Thoroughbred Club and their guests meeting after the race for dinner at the Brown Hotel here. Some of the juveniles entered in the divisions of this four and a half furlongs are leased for the occasion. Shreve, a son of Trace Call, and half brother of Blue Swords, will be the favorite in the first end of the Dinner Purse, it is expected, while Darby Duluth is fancied in the other. Shreve represents Humphrey E. Folk, Darby Duluth, John W. Galbreath. Under the conditions of the Dinner Purse, any remaining funds from nomination fees after payment of the prize awards and "dinner tab" will be given the I American Red Cross. If club members colorbearers share in the purse, their awards will be in War Bonds.
