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Bradley Without Starter Is Hoping For Fifth Winner in 1949 or Sooner Full Brother to Busher Recently Foaled Highly Regarded by Octogenarian OctogenarianCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 The famous green and white silks of Col Edward Riley Bradley will be miss ¬ ing from the colorful Derby panorama here at historic Churchill Downs tomorrow but down in Palm Beach Fla where he and a small party of friends plan to listen to the race via the air waves the 86yearold master of Idle Hour Farm already is look ¬ ing ahead to the 1949 running of the famous Blue Grass classic classicColonel Colonel Bradley grown quite feeble now but still insisting he will live to be a hun ¬ dred is building his hopes for a fifth Ken ¬ tucky Derby winner in a gangling chestnut colt by War Admiral Baby League who was foaled at Idle Hour Farm only a few weeks ago The foal who gives promise of developing into a finelooking individual is a full brother to Busher the splendid threeyearold filly who was voted horse of the year in 1945 In a recent letter to Col Matt J Winn Colonel Bradley wrote If I do not win my fifth Derby before I will take it with this full brother of Busher in 1949 1949While While his present physical condition forces him to forego many of his annual pilgrimages to the nations various racing centers particularly Kentucky Colonel Bradley as mentioned above plans to hear a broadcast of tomorrows seventysecond Derby at the home of a friend Wililam F Kenney in Palm Beach BeachHasnt Hasnt Witnessed Race in Years YearsColonel Colonel Bradley hasnt witnessed a Derby running for the past several years al ¬ though Burning Dream carried his silks into ninth position in last years race Usually one of the heaviest nominators to the blueribbon event Colonel Bradley neglected to nominate a representative this year although he has a number of three yearolds in Be Courageous Be Sure Now Beyond Reach Big and Better Boyish Love Bridal Flower and Buy and Sell Evidently the colonel a shrewd judge of horseflesh decided that none of these measured up to Derby standards J Although the aging Bradley has disposed of a number of his horses he still has 11 good twoyearolds in training any one of i whom could develop into a potential Derby winner The Bradley juveniles are the colts Beat All by War Admiral Boys Im It Better Value by Bimelech Knockaney Bridge Blue Border by Bimelech Blade of Time and Bradentown by Grand Slam Businesslike Numbered among the fillies are Bee Ann Mac by Blue Larkspur La Troienne Biding Time by War Admiral Bitindependent Bimlette by Bimelech Bloodroot Blind Frenzy by Bimelech Blade of Time Blue Eyed Momo by War AdmiralsBig Event Bobbing Up by War AdmiralrBarn Swallow and But Why Not by Blue Larkspur Be Like Mom Another twoyearold filly Burn the Wind by Bimelch Bit OLove recently died at Belmont Park ParkHas Has Had TwentyEight Representatives RepresentativesDuring During the course of the years Colonel Bradley has sent 28 representatives after the Derby gold and glory both in his own name and his nom de course Idle Hour Stock Farm Four of these were winners the group including Behave Yourself in 1921 Bubbling Over in 1926 Burgoo King in 1932 and Brokers Tip in 1933 Those who failed to measure quite up to the exacting Derby standards were By Golly 1920 Black Servant 1921 Blue Larkspur and Bay Beauty 1929 Breezing Thru and Buckeye Poet 1930 Brother Joe 1932 Bazaar 1934 Boxthorn 1935 Bien Joli 1936 Billionaire 1937 Bimelech 1940 and Burning Dream 1945 All of these raced in the name of E R Bradley Those unsuccessful in the colors of Idle Hour Stock Farm were Bet Mosie By Gosh and Busy American 1922 Bright Tomorrow 1923 Beau Butler Baffling and Bob Tail 1924 Broadway Jones 1925 Bagenbag gage 1926 and Buddy Bauer and Be withus 1927 1927All All of Bradleys Derby winners were trained by the late H J Derby Dick Thompson who holds the record for having saddled the greatest number of winners of the blue grass classic
