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SOL RUTCHICK Made first Derby Derbyentries entries naming Master Fiddle and Count CountFlame Flame for the race Derby Field of Sixteen Is Indicated Fifteen in Kentucky Oaks at Downs Count Flame Master Fiddle Sharpen Speed in Workouts Cold Command Happy Go Lucky Also Seen in Trials Cousin Will Not Be Starter StarterBy By CHARLES HATTON HATTONCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky May 1 The entry box for the seventy eighth running of the 100000 Kentucky Derby on Saturday was opened in rac ¬ ing secretary Lincoln Plauts office this morning and Sol Rutchick made the first entries naming Myhelynsgray Master Fid ¬ dle and Jack Amiels Count Flame They will be coupled in the tote play on the classic of course Entries will be accepted up to the regular 10 a m closing time on Friday and indications today were for a starting field of perhaps 16 headed by Calumets record breaking favorite Hill Gail and the stretch running Blue Man Gushing Oil Hannibal Smoke Screen Brown Rambler Sub Fleet Happy Go Lucky and Blue Man were reported named later in the day Alfred Vanderbilt and trainer Bill Winfrey today definitely de ¬ cided against starting Cousin who sulked in the Derby Trial and arrangements are being made to return him to New York YorkTraining Training Grind at End EndAlthough Although the weather forecast is for rain this weekend there was no hint of any precipitation when C V Whitneys Cold Command J J Amiels Count Flame H G Bockmans Happy Go Lucky and Myhelyns Master Fiddle were brought to the Downs course for brief speed sharpeners this morning The others have completed the exacting Derby training grind except for pipeopeners tomorrow and Saturday morning The track was fast during train ¬ ing hours today and CountTlame a blaze laced chestnut son of Count Fleet showed the smartest time dockers catching him a handy five furlongs in 100 the first half in 47 Count Flame is a stablemate of Count Turf who won the 1951 Derby for Amiel AmielThe The handsome prickeared gray Master Fiddle breezed five furlongs in 101 He was tabbed a first half in 48 The son of First Fiddle is confidently expected to be running on stoutly when some of the more nimble Derby entrants are on a tread ¬ mill the last part of Saturdays history making mile and a quarter quarterHappy Happy Go Lucky runnerup to Gushing Oil in the Louisiana Derby has by turns been in and out of the Downs event and definitely was in again this morning when he went a handy six furlongs in 48 101 and 113 Cold Command was on the Derby course and breezed five furlongs in 102 the first half in 49 This con ¬ cludes his prep and he now is marking time until the bugle blows Trainer Veitch still is inclined not to start the hardhit ¬ ting son of War Admiral in the event of wet footing but the final decision would rest of course with owner C V Whitney who was to reach the Lexington farm this morning morningIt It was indicated that Gushing Oil in whom owner Sam Wilson has an abiding faith will open up tomorrow morning And jockey Ted Atkinson will be on hand to acquaint himself with the Easy Mon colt in this training maneuver maneuverThe The added starter Swoop was expected expectedContinued Continued on Page Three Derby LineUp of Sixteen Is Indicated Count Flame Master Fiddle Work Out Cold Command Happy Go 4 Lucky Also Seen in Trials Cousin Will Not Be Starter StarterContinued Continued from Page One Oneto to plane in from Long Island momentarily this morning and advance notices have it that he would benefit were the prediction for rain to materialize materializeMeanwhile Meanwhile Gift Silver the colorful lowan did a trick this morning He broke from Ruby Whites starting gate Perez saddle slipped and the colt ducked for a gap causing a boy galloping Essie M to jump off his mount and try to lead his horse out of Gift Silvers path Gift Silver struck Essie M but Perez stayed on and the colt finished his work The incident gave pause to at least one trainer of an ¬ other Derby prospect who was concerned that Gift Silver might pile up to Derby field Starter White said that the colt left his gate straight however which is as far as his jurisdiction goes The whole question was resolved later in the day when a vet examined Gift Silver and advised Newell the colt might be seriously injured were he a Derby starter Newell then decided against starting the lowan lowanShag Shag Tails connections this morning signified an intention of placing the Alsab colt in the Derby entries though the Shagrin representative may not be a starter He was third behind Hill Gail and Arroz in the Derby Trial in a much im ¬ proved performance performanceMeanwhile Meanwhile Derby visitors continue to jampack Louisville coming by train and plane from all parts of the country countryTrack Track superintendent Tom Young today had the gardeners setting out the floral de ¬ signs in the innerfield a corps of parking attendants marking off the many areas of parking lots and the Stevens caterers were employing a small regiment of waiters cashiers and others for Derby Day DayThe The gates will open at 800 a m on Saturday with preliminary betting on the Derby getting under way at special booths at 900 a m Post time for the first race will as usual be 1130 am With the Run for the Roses itself going to the post at 430 p m nine races are to be presented with the Debutante Stakes as a secondary feature and the entire program is expected to be concluded by 600 p m mDeverne Deverne Emerys Eternal Moon is mak ¬ ing his bow to the American public as the conditioner of a Kentucky Derby starter but he has been a trainer and a successful one for some 20 years Emery a native of Iowa is 40 years old and started his turf career as a rider Perhaps his most out ¬ standing accomplishment in the saddle dur ¬ ing his period of activity from 1926 through 1929 was riding Greentree Stables Stirrup Cup to victory in the New Orleans Handi ¬ cap He was astride Black Gold when that 1924 and historic Kentucky Derby winner broke his leg at New Orleans in 1928 an accident necessitating the destruction of the horse Black Gold liesburied in the in ¬ field at the Fair Grounds
