The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-29
AMERICAN DERBY
GREATEST EVENT OF SEASON
 ON RUNNING TURF.
Number of Original Nominations Stands at 9o.-Edward Corrigan Has No Entries.-Sporting
 Gossip.

| With the exception of the Kentuck! l Derby at Louisville and some of the staK | races on the tracks around New 1orf l the American Derby at Washington Parf l Chicago is possibly the greatest event 1 of the season on the running turf. Fol | lowers of the races in Montgomery wht | kept up. with the 2-year-olds last seasor | will be. interested in these same horse as 3-year-olds during the coming season In commenting on the candidates TOT | the coming American Derby The Chicago | Tribune of Sunday has the following: | No further entries to the American Derby have been received. and. inasmuch as the closing time was at midnight or January 15 1t seems probable the antici- 1 pated nominations from Edward Corri | gan, who is in England, were not made. I This being the case. the number of orig inal nominati will stand at ninety nine.
 Of these two. or three will probably be rejected, accor ling to the statement made yesterday by. Secretary Howard of the Washington Park Club. as the nomns- | tors failed to comply with conditions governing the entries. Until list stamped as official is given | out it is not likely winter book on the Derby will appear, but in the meantime the Derby is already being run in thou
 sands of preliminaries on tracks that arc built of imagination around winter fires and by steam radiators.
 | hcTc are tHT6t CdnuludteS WHICH StdHt out before the others in general estima- tion and they are Abe Frank, McCees- ney, and Endurance by Right. Henc would come into this good company but for the. fact that he is too far away fir the East The same observation applies te Cruzados. except that the Baldwin colt As far in the West with change of eli. mate and 1000 miles of travelling between him and a conditioning for the most not ed of American 3-year-old events
 Aha Frank and MeChoanav spicuous candidates. because of great performances last year, with the addi- tional fact that they are absolutely sure to go to the post on June 22 if they are at alf 1t to race on that date. Endurance by Right is equally conspicuous because
 her record is uniformly the best of any
 horse fn the race; oeca lse she belongs to
 a man of vast wealth who is able to spend sums of money in securing for his
 horses the best attention and training and because 1t is believed there Is a req
 sonably good chance Of Mir. Whitney sending her to Chicago after the prize. At the same time. all other things being meana so probable ctarter in the race as Abe Frank and McChesney Hence 1t need cause no surprise if she plays third fiddle to the two Western colts when it coH,es Hns,soI to betting on the race - . year-old career than either Abe Frank or McChesney, for the reason that she was good first. last. and all the time and retired to winter of rest without having run race that was not brilliant with fifteen victories to her credit out or seventeen starts, and without ever having been unplaced in A race. Abe Frank had 2-year-old career that was possibly slightly more brilliant than that of the Whitney Ally except in its clos ing chapter. when It became mediocre. He met with an accident in the May wood Stakes at Washington Park on July II, and ten days later was beaten by two ordinary colts in the rich Hyde Park Stakes. shortly after which he was re- , tired for the season. McChesney was a selling platter during the first half of his 2-year-old career. and an ordinary one at that but he finished the season with that made it hard to guess what his lim- itations might be.
 Following close upon the heels of Heno and Cruzados comes another batch of Derby entries whose record is so good that it requires only a moderate inn
 proyement for any one of them to step to the front rank. There is Allan-a-Dale
 the Apollo of the race. who was one of
 the most perfectly molded 2-year-o olds that ever graced a track and almost as
 good racehorse he was good-Iook- ing. There is the rarely bred Compute
 who has faced the starter but three tory.
 Then there is the G. B. Morris pair Old England. who has won his only three starts and is pronounced an ex- cepttonally large and handsome colt. and homestead. whose career is something like that of McChesney. in that he was a mediocre 2-year-old early in the season, but recently has developed into a stake horse of apparently remarkable promise. MT. Morris apparently has in these two colts the representatives of two desir-
 able qualities in q acehorse-nnusual speed. as represented in Old England
 and unusual stamina and gameness. as
 represented in Homestead. c. B. Nor ris. 1t will be recalled, has won one American Derby-with Strathmeath in 1891.
 Still another prominent candidate is John A. Drake's Tunnels, who beat En- durance by Right at Memphis-in fact.
 this was the most decisive beating the lilly ever received-but was afterward more decisively beaten by her at Wash ington Park. Runnels has eight victories
 out of twelve starts to his credit.
 Still another front row candidate is PentecOst. This youngster was a disap- pointment nearly all of last season-not because he was not good colt. but
 because his owner Brown Dick" and many others who watched his work, in- sisted on believing that he was a world beater.. Pentecost ran good races. and now he belongs to John F. Madden and is entered by the most noted of Amer ican trainers in the Derby.
 The above eleven horses will probably be the most favored animals for the Derby until developments of one kind or another go to bring out new stars or accidents retire some of them from the favored hst.
 There are twenty-four maidens among the candidates, just half of whom have never faced the starter. These are Allie Nirgie. Blackmore. Frontage de Erie,