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Armed Humbles Seven Downs Foes" Draws Off to Easy o Triumph in Sprint I Calumet Gelding 1 to 5 as £ He Leads Best Prospect by z Three and Quarter Lengths CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., £ May 2. — Calumet Farms mighty Armed " carried the devil red and blue colors of the c Warren Wright unit to a popular victory JJJ in the Joe Cotton purse, sixth and fea- P tured race on the eight-race agenda. Con- - fidently ridden by apprentice Gordon Glis- son, who was completing a saddle double, the gelded product of Bull Lea — Armful, "* repsonded readily when mildly urged for -J** the stretch run and reached the end of the jj six-furlong allowance event three and one- quarter lengths before Leo J. Caillouettes Best Prospect, second by an additional length and one-half in advance of Nate L. Raffelmans Pomps Gal. Miss Jean Cambrons Challorette, M. M. Hellermans Debaby, Mrs. Frank P. Letel-liers Knights Hill, Henry Tikulskis Bobs Pick and James C. Ellis Quintero comprised the remainder of the field and finished in the named order. A prohibitive choice in the wagering, the Calumet gelding carried his intermediate impost of 113 pounds, including the five- pound allowance for the apprentice Glis-son, in most easy fashion and returned his innumerable backers .40, .60 and .20 across the board. Armed was timed in 1:12% for the assigned distance and galloped out an extra furlong in 1:25%. Taken Off Pace Armed broke alertly as the group was dispatched from the gate in excellent alignment, but was wisely taken back from the early pace cut out by Best Prospect, Debaby and Challorette. This running order underwent no decided change as the field swung into the home lane. At this point, Glisson brought Armed to the middle of the track for the final test and it appeared a certainty that the Calumet colorbearer would encounter little difficulty in adding the afternoons feature to his impressive lot of victories. Best Prospect went on gamely to take down the runner-up honors from the Raffelman charge, who lacked a finishing , rally when hard ridden through the late stages. As in the past, racing throughout Derby , week at the Downs is without equal and this year is definitely no exception. In addi-[ tion to the appropriately named inaugural handicap, which this season was added to ! the local stakes and handicap agenda, the Derby week program also includes the Derby Trial which is to have its renewal . Tuesday and it will be followed by the Clark Handicap on Thursday, The Kentucky Oaks J on Friday and the Bashford Manor Stakes , and the 00,000 added Blue Grass Classic [ itself on Saturday, May 7. , Perfect springlike weather prevailed for I Mondays card which was witnessed by some , ,7,500 Blue Grass turfites. The strip re-, mained in its present lightning fast condi- tion adding to the consistency of the favor-, ites and near choices who graciously added to the pleasure of the majority of the rather , surprising afternoons crowd.
