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y II j li c 111 rs Gallant Man in Enviable Position Last Import to Win Derby Came in 17 17Omar Omar Khayyam Took Famous Race 40 Years Ago Lowes Colt Was Bred in England EnglandCHTJRCHILIj CHTJRCHILIj DOWNS Louisville Ky May 3 If Gallant Man wins the Derby to ¬ morrow he will be the first imported horse to pull off the difficult task since Omar Khayyam in 1917 Yet his recent race in the dramatic Wood Memorial at Jamaica was good enough to make many profes ¬ sional horsemen regard him as a prime candidate for the handsome wreath of Roses that is draped over the winners neck at Churchill Downs late in the after ¬ noon of the first Saturday in May MayBred Bred in TSngland by the Aga and Aly Khan Gallant Man has won five of his 12 starts all in this country and has earned just shy of 40000 Its not a thoroughly impressive record but this is regarded as a coming colt one who is just beginning to develop developTrained Trained by Bloss on West Coast CoastHes Hes owned by Texas oil man Ralph Lowe was purchased through Humphrey Pinney of FasigTipton as one of a draft of six colts and three fillies which the Aga and Aly sold for a reported 250000 The nine yearling were deliveredto this coun ¬ try in May of 1955 and Gallant Man was vanned from Lexington Ky to Santa1 Anita He made his first start at Hollywood Park on May 18 of last year and broke his maiden in his third race on June 13 13Gerald Gerald Bloss trained him on the West Coast but when Bloss took ill Lowe sent the colt East and he came under the care of that knowledgeable young veteran Johnny Nerud x xGallant Gallant Man opened some eyes at Bel mont last fMl when he won a sixfurlong allowance race in 110 which is really moving over the New York strip Nerud then took him to Flo da won three more in succession with the son of MigoE and Majidah by Mahmoud including the Hi ¬ biscus in which he measured among oth ¬ ers Missile and King Hairan HairanGallant Gallant Man finished fourth in the Ba ¬ hamas to Bold Ruler Gen Duke and Fed ¬ eral Hill certainly no disgrace but then he began to train off At first Nerud hoped to point him for the Flamingo saw he couldnt make it and conditioned the colt specifically for the Derby because he came to regard Gallant Man as a true distance horse horseThe The colt didnt run from January 30 un ¬ til April 6 when he was sent out in the sixfurlong Swift Stakes He needed the race finished a fastclosing fourth Then came the Wood Memorial in which he took the lead from Bold Ruler at the eighth pole and just did fail to hold off Mr Fitzs ace in the final strides It was a tremendous effort Gallant Man is a relatively small horse perhaps not as tiny as Determine who won the Derby in 1954 but a pony when brought along side Bold Ruler He has good iolks though as Jimmy Jones wrald say His HisContinued Continued OH J e 73 D Gallant Man Can Be First Import to Wir Since 17 17Lowes Lowes Colt Like Omar Khayyam 40 Years Back Is EnglishBred EnglishBredContinued Continued from Page 10 D Dgrandsire grandsire Mahmoud won the Epsom Derby in 1936 and his sire Migoli was second at Epsom in 1947 This bespeaks distance on both sides of the family and Nerud be ¬ lieves he is the truest router of the entire Derby field fieldThis This colt has plenty of speed as evi ¬ denced by his scintillating clocking at Bel mont last fall and by the sudden move he made in the Wood when he saw Bold Ruler and Mr Jive playing catandmouse He also had no trouble negotiating the nine furlongs of the Wood and when you com ¬ bine speed with ability over a route of ground tempered by the kind of courage he showed at Bold Rulers throat latch you have the makings of a real thoroughbred one capable of whining derbys or Belmont Stakes
