The New York herald., 1922-05-07
DERBY WINNERS
THAT TRAIN ON
Few Horses Have Won Classic
Races in'North After Vie
tory at Louisville.

To refute the rather widespread inn
preston that the Kentucky Derby is
run too early In the season TO be a
safe engagement for three-year-o OF
great promise. booklet entitled Ken
tucky Derby Winners Train On" has
been published. presumably by the Ken
lucky Jockey Club giving the record OF
every starter that afterwards performed
creditably the same season. The statis-
tics are reassuring. in spite or the fact
that Sir Barton is the only Derby
winner that has ever come North and
won the Belmont Stakes. while Aristides
and Sir Barton alone have won both
the Derby and the Withers. and Omar
Khayyam is the sole winner of the
Derby and the Realization.
These ominous facts have discouraged
the owners of many northern horses
from sending them to Louisville in
May, yet closer analysis Of the rec
ords is reassuring. Running for the
Kentucky Derby did not prevent its
competing horses from being frequently
listed among the winners of the Latonia
Derby, run later in the season at Cow
ington, and always at Derby dis
tance; ono mile and a half. or the
thirty-nine renewals OF the Latonia
event no less than twenty were won by
colts or fillies that started in the earlier
race at Louisville, and six of these
were winners of both stakes.
The poor showing made by winners
OF the Kentucky Derby in important
stakes for three-year-olds on the North
ern tracks is apparently due to the fact
that so few of the Louisville winners
have come North. the great majority
having stayed In Kentucky to run at the
Latonia meetings. 1t is only in the last
few years. since the value of the Louis
vile races has increased by leaps and
bounds, that the pick of the three-year-
olds from New York and vicinity have
frequently tried to capture the big prize.
Whitney's great fiily Regret and James
Buffers fast colt Pebbles having
fought It out for first place ir 1915.
while John Sanford's George Smith and
another Eastern horse. Star Hawk,
were the contending pair at the finish
In the following year. In 1917 IT was
Omar khayyam, owned by c. X. @.
Billings and Frederick Johnson of New
York that drew away from the field.
Willis Sharpe Kilmer's now famous
ge.ding. Exterminator, captured the
prize for the Eastern contingent in
1918. though he was bred, trained and
Barton won for the Canadian turfman,
J. K. l.. Ross, in 1919. With Man o.
War missing. Raj PARIS Virginia bred
and Maryland owned co.'s Paul Jones,
was the winner the next Fear and last
season. when the East was represented
by Leonardo. Tryster, Prudery and
others. z. r. Bradleys home bred pair,
Behave Yourself and Black Servant. d.
vided the spoils
The unbeaten Norwich. trained at Bel
the colors. the hopes and the money OF
the East in the forty-eighth running
of the great race at Louisville next
Saturday. He has shown speed enough
to warrant an easy victory and if he
meets with no mishap and wins. it will
be one OF the interesting features of the
racing year to see how he holds his
form on his return to New York for the
approaching Withers and Belmont
stakes at Belmont Park. Some horse
| men have criticised the owner and
| trainer of Norwich for not shipping him
to Kentucky in time to become accli-
mated before the big race. But the
answer to this has been that tfotting
horses every year are shipped longer
distances and asked to race at mile
heats on arrival and then go on to an
other town and repeat the process from
week TO week all through the season,
often without losing an engagement or
missing feed. They do not nowadays
begin racing in May. however, although
they did so thirty years ago. when the
spring campaign opened at the Pimlico
track in Baltimore. where the runners
are now performing.