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, : i . i • • • • ■ • i I • , t - 3 J 3 , t Trio of Derby Winners Nominated for Peabody Money Broker, Curragh King and Matagorda on Lincoln Stake List The 0,000 Peabody Memorial, traditional Memorial Day feature of the Lincoln Fields meeting, which opens at Hawthorne May 18, already has drawn the nominations of three Derby winners. These are Money Broker, Matagorda and Curragh King, respective winners of the Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas Derbys. Money Broker and Curragh King both made game, but unsuccessful efforts in the Kentucky Derby in which Dark Star beat Native Dancer by a head. Dark Star had been one of Money Brokers victims in the Florida Derby, finishing 13th in a field of 17. The Peabody, which has reached the proportions of a major fixture for three-year-olds, will have its 25th running this year. Entries do not close until May 20. Money Broker is somewhat in the category of a story book horse, and he has certainly been a bargain, a born bargain at that. He is by the imported stallion, Half Crown, son of the great English sire, Hyperion. His dam was the imported mare, Chartreuse H. Chartreuse II., carrying the foal which was to be named Money Broker, was consigned to the Keeneland fall sales in 1949 by Duval A. Headley, acting as agent. She was sold for 00 to Herbert K. Stevens of Lexington, Ky., and later became the property of J. Ray Waller of Gahanna, Ohio. Her chestnut colt, Money Broker, was foaled at Wallers Wickliffe Farm in Ohio, February 20, 1950. Waller sent the colt Continued on Page Forty-Six Trio of Derby Winners Nominated for Peabody Money Broker, Curragh King and Matagorda on Lincoln Stake List Continued from Page Three into the sales ring at Keeneland as a yearling in 1951. He was purchased for ,300 by P. A. Grissom and Edward Grosfield, Detroit automobile dealers, who race as the G and G. Stable. In the spring of his two-year-old form, Money Broker raced under a claiming price of ,000. But he showed rapid improvement and soon moved up in class and out of the claiming ranks. He won six races as a two-year-old. He won his first two starts at three last February at New Orleans. After being beaten by the older Smoke Screen. Spur On, and Shy Guy, he finished second to Matagorda in the Louisiana Derby. But he turned the tables on the latter when both were flown to Gulfstream Park for the Florida Derby. Money Broker has now earned more than 18,000. Matagorda came out of the Louisiana Derby victorious in his first three starts this year. He finished dead last in the Florida Derby after a rough trip, first in the airplane, later on the race track. He is by the Chilean-bred stallion, Brown King, out of Co-Cella, by Cohort, is owned by Joe W. Brown of New Orleans, was foaled at Jack Howards Rockwood Farm outside Lexington, Ky. Curragh King, owned by Edward M. Goemans of Milwaukee, was bred in Ireland and is by Nasrullah sire of Noor, who is now at stud at Claiborne in Kentucky, out of Early Sunrise. He was sold as a yearling in the 1951 sales at Dublin for 3,500, the purchaser being the Anglo-Irish Agency. He has done all his racing for his present owner. He was odds-on when he broke his maiden at Oaklawn Park on March 2 of this year. His Arkansas Derby victory came on March 28. It will be all right with this particular Irishman if Dark Star is absent from the Peabody. The Kentucky Derby was the second consecutive race in which Curragh King finished behind Dark Star, the first being the Derby Trial. Horses are arriving almost daily at Hawthorne for the 30 -day Lincoln Fields meeting. Stables with reservations include the Harry Trotsek entourage, including Hasty House Farm; Howard Wells Walmac Farm and others, Sam E, Wilson, Jr., Dixiana, Denemark Stable, J. R. Collins, Harvey C. Fruehauf, Cresson Farm Fred Browning, Texas, R. C. Adams, H. G. Bockman, B. W. Landy, Buddah Stable, T. M. Daniel, Brown Hotel, J. D. Mikel, Augustus and Nahm, Golden Maxim Farm, Jake Lowenstein. and others.
