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W E BRITT Owner of the California CaliforniaDerby Derby winner No Regrets who will start startin in the Derby Trial this afternoon at the theChurchill Churchill Downs course Field of 11 Named for Derby Tria Bookworm Easy Sportsmans Winne Head Man Fabius Principa Entrants in Downs Mile Run RunI I Whitney and Calumet Colts to Vie for Favoritism With No Regrets and Countermand Also Expected to Come In for Good Support High King Lovers Aid Black Emperor Go GoBy By OSCAR OTIS OTISCHURCHILL CHURCHILL DOWNS Louisville Ky April 30 A field of ii Kentucky Derby probables and possibilities including C V Whitneys Head Man and Calumet Farms Fabius was listed overnight for the nineteenth running of the Derby Trial The Trial now a stakes in its own right will be raced from the Churchill mile chute making for but one turn to be negotiated Also taking a shot at the 10000 Trial used by three Derby winners as a stepping stone toward the greater glory of the Run for The Roses are T A Grissoms Invalidate Brandywine Stables Countermand Clifford Mooers How Blue Mrs Engene Constan tins Roman Fan Hasty House Farms Black Emperor Mark Leachs Almost un ¬ heard of until now Ebony Beauty Rex Ellsworths Californiabred Lovers Aid W E Buck Britts No Regrets and Joseph Gavegnanos recent arrival High King KingThree Three Won Both Events EventsThe The three Trial winners who went on to score in the Derby were Citation in 1948 Hill Gail 1952 and Dark Star 1953 1953No No Regrets and Countermand in addi ¬ tion to Head Man and Fabius are con ¬ sidered certain Derby Starters come what may short of unexpected disaster or abso ¬ lutely sluggish showing in the Trial But of the others owners and trainers will de ¬ cide after the Trial results are in and the form of the race analyzed as to whether or not their respective charges will go in the eightysecond running of the Ken ¬ tucky Derby on Saturday SaturdayHead Head Man will be ridden by his Derby pilot Eddie Arcaro who is flying in from New York while Fabius will be piloted by another great jockey Willie Hartack also planing in from the East for this engage ¬ ment mentLarry Larry Gilligan will be astride Invalidate I Arnold Kirkland has the irons with Coun ¬ termand L C Cook is engaged for How HowContinued Continued on Page Six HEAD MAN WINNjNG THE EXPERIMENTAL C V Whitneys hope in todays Derby Trial is shown beating Nail by a head in the sixfurlong Experimental Free Handicap at Jamaica on April 2 Pollys Jet was third Jean Baptisre fourth fourthRunning Running time was 111 1117s 7s Head Man and Fatiius Top Derby Trial Field of 77 at Churchill Downs Today No Regrets andCountermand Also Likely to Draw Good Support in Mile Feature FeatureContinued Continued from Page One OneBlue Blue R L Baird will steer Roman Fan Johnny Adams is back with Hasty House with Black Emperor Dave Erb regular pilot for Needles picked up the ride on Ebony Beauty Jack Skelly who has been pinchhitting for Willie Shoemaker here will be up on Lovers Aid Douglas Dodson already engaged for the Derby will be astride No Regrets and W M Cook will be in the saddle of High King KingAs As for all these hopefuls no one blames them for finding out in such a race as the Derby Trial just whether or not they should be starters The coming Derby has been topsy turvy for almost two weeks now in fact ever since the running of the Wood Memorial With many of the bigwigs in the race with the exception of Needles beaten by non Derby eligibles the race has become one of the most wide open in races Hence so many surprise entrants in Tuesdays Trial TrialNo No valid tentative lineup of probable starters will be possible until after the de ¬ cision in the Trial Tuesday but by Wednesday morning a fairly accurate list ¬ ing for this eightysecond Derby running should be available availableA A preliminary nose count this morning indicated that no less than 19 or 20 three yearolds could be considered as stillpossi ¬ ble and come what may there should be perhaps as many as 14 actually go post ward wardHere Here are some typical situations that present themselves in the Trial TrialHarry Harry Albrecht trainer for Clifford Mppers says that Now Blue will be a Derby starter if he shows enough in the Trial to warrant it itThe The Hasty House Farm announced at Keeneland that if Black Emperor ran well in an overnight there he did and if he ran well in the Derby Trial he then might be a starter in the Derby Its pretty iffy from start to finish but this wait and see attitude makes a good deal of sense Stanley Greene trainer of Roman Fan has for the last three weeks clung to the position that Roman Fan is a remote pos ¬ sibility for the Derby but would become a solid one if he showed up well in the Trial TrialThe The Trial will be run under allowance conditions with Countermand Head Man and No Regrets sharing the top weight of 118 pounds eight less than will be required in the Derby DerbyEbony Ebony Beauty gets in with maximum allowance of 10 pounds is listed at 108 Roman Fan and High King are pegged at 110 and all others will tote 112 pounds Hasty poundsHasty Road who outfinished Determine in the Trial has the fastest time for the tuneup stakes 135 With the track dulled today by weekend showers some of them quite heavy its condition tomorrow for the Trial will depend entirely on the weather prevailing within the next 24 hours It was cloudy and cold this morning and the weather at this time of the year is def ¬ initely changeable
