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► ■_ - BEN A. JONES— Saddled the Calumet ! Farms Lap Full for her second straight of the Kentucky season when she accounted" for yesterdays feature race at Churchill Downs. Expect Expect Nine Nine to to Meet Meet in in 81st 81st Derby; Derby; High High Voltage Voltage Annexes Annexes Acorn Acorn Stakes Stakes Racing Fool Gets Nine-Furlong Trial Flying Furys Entry Mate Timed in 1 :57% ; Prince Noor, Jett Flame Declared By CHARLES HATTON CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 4.— Saturdays- 81st running of the historic Kentucky Derby began to take definite substance this morning as trainers checked their three-year-old colts for almost the last time before it becomes necessary to "pass them through the entry box Friday morning." The Derby Trial on Tuesday served at least one good purpose for this Derby because, it at once produced some added solid contention for the big race Saturday, and at the same time eliminated four and possibly five horses out of any further hopes of contention. , The Derby field then stands, as of this moment, at nine definite starters with the outside possibility of a tenth, this being Nabesna, owned by Clifford Mooers, the globe-trotting turfman who calls Texas, California, and Kentucky home. The only real casualty of the Derby Trial was William M. Peavys Jett Flame, who hurt himself slightly during the running of the race, nobody being sure just how and when. In any case he came out of the race sore and this was enough for trainer E. C. Dobson to declare the colt. Also definitely out and this will not come as news to those who saw the Trial is Prince Noor. He ran a shocking bad race, and neither his owner, Allie Reuben, nor trainer Harry Trotsek needed any prolonged conference to decide that it would be wisdom to stay in the barn. Both had announced prior to the Trial that Prince Continued on Page Three Nine May Parade To Post for Derby Racing Fool Gets Workout Of Nine Furlongs; Prince . Noor, Jett Flame Declared Continued from Page One Noors race would be decisive insofar as Derby intentions were concerned. Styrunner and Royal Mon are both out. While nobody expected .Styrunner to start, the connections of Royal Mon, winner of the New Mexico Futurity at La Mesa Park, Raton, last summer, insisted he would be a starter, come what may, up to post time of the Trial. However, the horse stopped so badly in the final eighth after setting the early pace that it was obvious in the case of Royal Mon, discretion would be the better part of valor, to coin a phrase, and the owners have reluctantly given up their slim Derby hopes. This morning was expected to be somewhat on the dull side as far as training routine was concerned, what with Nashua scaring the wits out of observers with his fast spin Tuesday morning, and the trial in the afternoon accommodating many other Derby candidates. However, Racing Fool, who will go post-ward with Flying Fury, winner of the Trial in a driving nose over the Wests Jeans Joe, did get in his final major Derby prep, a steady mile and a furlong in 1:57%, his fractions indicated the easy manner of his going, quarter in :25, half in :50£, six furlongs in 1:16%, and mile in 1:44. He was obviously designed by trainer Loyd Gentry to encourage Racing Fool to rate his known burst of speed over a greater distance of ground. Trim Destiny, of course, worked between races yesterday, a mile in 1:40%, handily, and trainer Cecil Locklear has said the colt could be counted as a definite starter "because his owner wants to start him." Blue Lem, who, of all the horses in the Derby Day and-a slushy track, also worked, five furlongs in 1:01%. Trainer Johnny Kermath is quite frank that Blue Lem has the best chance of all in the mud, but does not discount the probability that he also might turn in a creditable effort on a fast track. The so-called "big three" of the Derby, Nashua, Summer Tan, and Swaps, were out on the track but contented themselves with short gallops. Summer Tan Schooled -to Paddock Trainer Sherrill Ward schooled Summer Tan to the paddock yesterday just before the first race, a training move which escaped the attention of most everyone. Ward said that "he took to it even better than I had dared hope" and indicated that he was pleased with the steady way Summer Tan took a close association with the crowd. The schooling to the paddock is an important part- of the Derby training routine. Flying Fury, incidentally, came out of his winning effort in the Trial just a bit tired, but trainer Gentry thought this was all to the good to make him a dead fit. colt on Saturday, inasmuch as the horse was only lightly raced during the winter in Florida. Both Honeys Alibi and Jeans Joe came out of the Trial in tip-top shape and both are expected to improve come Saturday. Meanwhile, this day of compartively un-sensational news of Derby horses, was enlivened on the front stretch with the steady influx of Derby-bent people, many of whom seem to be hitting town earlier this year than ever before. The turf writers were out in full force this morning and made a wide sweep of I the backstretch. In past -mornings, they have centered mostly at the stalls of Summer Tan and Nashua, but this morning, they found time to interview Mischa Ten-ney, trainer of the California-owned, bred, and raced Swaps, at length. They found the man a colorful gentleman and Tenney answered a barrage of questions willingly, with courtesy, -and correctly. He did, however, sidestep questions as to the strategy he will use in the Kentucky Derby, saying that Swaps could either go out on the pace, as he did in the Santa Anita Derby, or come from far out of it, as he did in a seven-eighths stake earlier in the Santa Anita meeting. Tenney just isnt disclosing his plan of the race at this time. "But Ive saddled a lot of horses in big races in the West, and figured out how the race would be run, and it didtft quite turn out that way," observed Tenney. "So it would be premature, to say just how Swaps will be rated in the Derbyi"
