Winner of Epsom Derby Sure to Get Invitations: Several Tracks Ready to Frame Special Races in This Country, Daily Racing Form, 1948-06-05

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Winner of Epsom Derby Sure to Get Invitations InvitationsSeveral Several Tracks Ready to Frame Special Races in This Country CountryBELMONT BELMONT PARK Elmont L I N Y June 4 The winner of tomorrows Epsom Derby will hardly have time to cool out after the race before the international cables are hot with messages inviting him to special races at various tracks in New York Chicago and California Authorita ¬ tive but unquotable sources intimate that the colt that emerges victorious at the end of the grueling mile and a half at Epsom Downs will be solicited to engage Calu ¬ met Farms Citation or any miracle colt who manages to beat him in match races at Arlington or Washington Parks the event to take place in what is a slack pe ¬ riod of European racing between the run ¬ ning of the Grand Prix de Paris at the end of June and the St Leger Stakes at Don caster and the Prix Du Conseil Municipal and Arc De Triomphe at Longchamps in the fall fallIt It is also reported that several Derby candidates may become supplementary entries to the 100000 Maturity Stakes at Santa Anita next January a race which does not conflict with any of the major English or Eurpoean stakes stakesThe The Gaekwar of Baroda whose My Babu is expected to go postward in the role of favorite tomorrow has virtually committed himself to sending a candidate to the In ¬ ternational Gold Cup which the Empire City Racing Association is renewing at Belmont Park in September This race conflicts to a certain extent with the St Leger but with international air travel proven practicable it is possible for a colt to go in the Gold Cup and return in ample time for the S Leger Last year the Gaek ¬ war changed his mind about sending Say ajiro who had finshed third in the Derby to the inaugural of the Gold Cup but did fly the mediocre Diesel IL accompanied by jockey Panduran Khade as an experi ¬ ment and found that the horse suffered no illeffects from the journey The con ¬ nections of My Love one of the leading French condidates to the Derby have al ¬ ready indicated their interest in an Ameri ¬ can invasion in the event that the colt lives up to expectations tomorrow


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