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I 5| i : j t c 3 l [ j | J I ! " Lafayette Stakes Draws Nine Shifty Youngsters Unbeaten Valdina Trial to Meet r . Wise Admiral and Best Effort LOUISVILLE. Ky., April 24.— Charity y Week at Churchill Downs moves on tomor-1 _ row to the decision of Keenelands La-! fayette Stakes, a run of four and a half f furlongs for two-year-olds to which the e Lexington club adds ,000. This affair r closed last March 15 with 102 nominees s and produced nine more or less promising, • if unfamiliar, entrants. Two of these per-t " form in the interests of the New Orleanian. l; C. C. Tanner, a newcomer to the owners 5 ranks. This entry comprises the dusky v Ladysman colt, Best Effort, and the War r Admiral youngster. Wise Admiral. The e first named won like a smart colt on the e occasion of his latest essay here while Wise e Admiral was runner-up to the flashy Fly-! weight, at a respectful distance. This duo is expected to rule the public preference in the mutuels. They appear to have C. U. Yaegers Valdina Trial to beat. The Petrose filly won four races during the winter sea-t son at New Orleans Fair Grounds and is ! a precocious sort. J Kenneth Murchisons Poco Mas. a son of I the obscure Swahili. and J. W. Rodgers Roi Rouge are two other Lafayette entrants who have won at Louisville this spring. Poco Mas beat Fox Rime a diminishing ! head and Roi Rouge, a big bodied son of Burgoo King, captured a division of the Thoroughbred Club Dinner Purse. Provoker was acquired by Peterson and Childs, from Continued on Page Four Lafayette Stakes Draws ! Nine Shifty Youngsters ! Unbeaten Valdina Trial to Meet; f. | Wise Admiral and Best Effort Continued from Page One the fashionable Wheatley Stable for a re- .i ■ ported price of 2,000 at Miami last win- | ter. He has done nothing remarkable but! tl is a son of Sir Gallahad in. and the good j mare, Vexing. Quintero is a gelding by „ Appealing and earned a place in the e Lafayette field when he was a creditable e second here recently, despite racing wide e all the way. Black Pepper, the Brody and k ! Brody representative, and Valdina Jane, j who races for the Utopia Stable, have yet; to show anything out of the ordinary. The Lafayette last spring resulted in i ; J rather prophetic fashion when the first two J j at the finish were Ogham and Whirlabout, who were destined to prove among the best of the age division. Before that, such capa-He runners as Roman and Misty Isle won the stake for the late J. E. Widener. This | will be the eighth running of the race and i i it promises an attractive Red Cross week| feature. Indications this morning were that . I the track may be off. as it was for the 43 ! j | renewal. | The Lafayette is surrounded by the usual I j j array of seven other events, most of them • ; with limit fields of the sort calculated to enhance the yield for the Red Cross. Such I I I familiar sprinters as Amber Light, Corona 1 1 Corona, Fire Power and Sameron are! I among the eleven in the six-furlong Idle ■ Hour Handicap, which is the matinee s secondary ■ feature.
