The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-04-08
KENTUCKY DERBY
REVIVAL SURE TO
BE STAR EVENT

Louisville, April Sit is improbable
now that the kentuck Derby, which will
be renewed at Churchill Downs on May
I, with an added money value of $780,
600 and a gross value of about 100000,
will attract more than one of the smart
tillies of the season OF 1920, every one
Of which appears to be blosson1ing into
three year-old Of genuine class. James
Rowe. who made no secret last fall of
his belief that Harry Payne Whitney's
Prrdcry. winner of the Grand Union
SpinaWay, Rosedale and Fashion stakes,
and the placed horse behind her stable
Special, and behind Leonardo II, in the
Hopeful, was as good a two-year-o1d as
was Tryster himself. may elect to send
that splendid daughter Of Peter Pan and
Polly Flinders along in the Derby, the
1915 renewal Of which is won with the
peerless Regret, Prudery is training
brilliantly.
But if Tryster, Exodus and Broom
spun continue to gallop for the Derby
as satisfactorily as they have galloped
these six or seven weeks Rowe will sure
1y withhold Prudery. The owners of
the other promising fillies have declared
that they will not run their feminine
racers against the greatest colts Of a sea-
son that promises to develop some stars
OF the first magnitude as early as May 7.
This is fortunate for racing through the
country generally, and for spring and
summer racing in Kentuck in particular
There will be colts aplenty for the Der
by The hllies will reserve their best
energies and speed for races exclusively
t0r horses Of the softer sex, and the lib
eral offerings of the Lexington Churchill
Downs and latOna cards will bring the
best this way for May, June and July
sport.
The special events that make the Ken
lucky Jockey Clubs program particularly
attractive to owners of three-year-Old
tillies of class are the $4,000 Ashland
Oaks, which will be renewed at Lex
ington early in May, and the Kentucky
and Latonia Oaks, $4,000 races of one
mile and a quarter, that will be features
of Churchill Downs and Latonia racing.
/ his stake program will be supplemented
l'y a series of overnight races of sub
Stantial values at graduated distances.
Already stabling has been bespOken at
the three Kentucky tracks for Prudery
and Crocus, Of the H. P. Whitney string
Edward F. Whitney's By Jimmy, Philip
A. CIarks Nancy Lee, Walter J. Sal
mons Stcplightly and Careful, Larry
Waterbury's Idle Doll, Commander J. X.
/. Ross lntrlguante Jacobina and Nut
tikins, Edward Beale McLean's Tough
Storm, Clifford A. COchran's Banksia.
Frederick Dahnken's Po1ythia, Mrs. Will
flrd Claus Tenlec and some others of
vide celebrity.
Many Of these fillies are training now
iii Maryland, and they will be coming
on to Kentucky after the Wind-up of the
spring meeting at Havre de Grace, on
April 80 The best the West can Dit
against them. apparently, are Believe,
Idle Hour and Bit of White, both men,
berS of the stable Of Edward R. Bradley,
proprietor of the Idle Hour Stud. But
these Bradley fillies are good. Bit of
White, daughter of Sunstar and
Dreamy and half-sister of War Cloud,
won the Debutante Stakes at Churchill
Downs last spring. Believe Idle Hour,
a daughter of Cunard and Love Not,
defeated Star Violet in the Breeders
Futurity at Lexington last fall. Bit of
White and Believe Idle Hour wintered
in the South and are training in Ken
lucky.