Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-16
DERBY WINNER UNABLE
To ENTER PREAKNESS
Officials Refuse to Change
Plans-Run Both Same
Day.

thcn the most formidable Of his three.
year ola rivals. In the succeeding
Troakncss revival at Pimlico and thi.
contrctcmps Is generally disappoint.
ing The racing fraternity like to see
champion thrcc-ycar -olds-nonc other
Than colt or lilly of championship
quality can win either u Eentucky
Derby or Prcaknoss renewal these
oaEs-compete in as many OF the
} great three year old specials as nos
sihlc. Everybody had hoped that the
! directors OF Pimliro racing Nigh;
! nave liked for the renewal OF the
! i'rchkncsS day at least II week
ahead OF tho date selected for the re-
, vival OF the Derby. Tho Preakness. n
! dash OF one mile and n furlong (,
the shorter race. The Derby is a gal
! Top OF ono mile and a quarter. In
tue nature Of things the shorter OF
! the two races should he decided first
! Eut unless the sophisticated arc
! wrong in their calculations. the Der
/ u! VIII suffer least in consequence
-, 'his unnecessary competition for
the three ycar-old ta!cn Of early
spring racing.
The determination OF the director
ate OF the kentucky Jockey Club TO
reduce by half the rewards OF III.
second, third and fourth horses at the
| finish OF the Derby and to inCreas
the starting fee To $500. all in the
interest OF the winner. will enhance
the value OF this seasons Derby To
the successful competitor from IS ooo
20 $4,000 as compared with the value
or last seasons race To Edward r.
l'rad!ey's Behave Yourself This will
BRING ihe winners share up 10 $50
90. or thcrcabout, and make the
bcrhE as valuable as the richest
event OF American racing.
Derby Attract. Interest,"
most considerable of the Eastern
juvenile winners of last season. along
Win the most Formidable Of the colts
niles and geldinEs that did their rae
inc in the Wcst-Morvich, the uu
beaten winner OF $4,000; hunting.
winner OF the Belmont Park Futurity:
mai sang. winner OF the Eastview and
United States Hotel stakes: Mission
airy. winner OF tho Manor handicap:
Marble. winner Of the Earl Grey Gun:
LUCKY Hour. ctc.-wh!Ch are now the
most sought for candidates i'm the
future betting because OF its weight
conditions.
The kentucky Derby. since last
year. Is strictly weight for age race
colts and Ecldings that compete in It
shoulder l@6 pounds apiece. Fillies
must pack 1871. All starters begin
with clean slate. None !s penalized
Tor either two-ycar-oid or early
'hree -ycar-old winnings. however
great. None comes in for an allow
ance. no matter how conspicuous n
FAILURE he. or she. may have been.
AMI this is as IL should be- 4 horse
incapable OF packing scale weight
mas no business in n $4,000 race. The
frcakness. on tho other hand. is n
condition race. The great winners, II
brings TO tho post must shoulder
scale weight-colts. 1926 pounds: fillies.
III. Ceilings are not admitted to to
participation. But considerable al
lowances must be made by previous
~ successful starters to colts and
hi!ies that have not won purses of
consequence. The most considerable
OF the Preakness allowances IL
twelve pounds. Because of this al
lowanccs Sir Barton. II he had not
won tho Kentucky Derby renewal Of
1918 some four days ahead OF the run
ming Of the Prcakncss. would have got
in the Pimlico race under ia pounds
He did get In the Derby under 1921.
pounds. the Derby OF 1919 having been
condition race also
Eastern racing OF last fall created
the impression among discriminating
students Of form that there might he
TWO or three Sir cartons about this
spring TO get lightly in the Freak
ness and other condition races Of the,
same sort and make things hot for
that had forfeited all three year old
allowances and. in many Instances.
incurred penalties. II is extremely
improbable that the owner of Nor
vich. or OF Raj Sang. or OF Marble.
or OF Missionary, or OF Bunting, or
any other big two-year-old winner Of
last season. viii elect to take the
chance OF running foul Cat disad-
vantage as regards wciSh) OF one
OF these undcvcloped potential three
year-old stars in the Ireakness when
he can send his colt to Kentucky as
surcd that he Will meet the known
and potential stars that strip for the
great $4,000 Derby on even terms.
Gcidlngs Won In 1918 md 1920.
In 1918 and again in 1920 renewals
OF the Derby were won by Eeldings Of
the nrSt claSS--EX terminator and Paul
Jones. EXtcrminator has since be-
com" the champion distance runner
oil American racing. Paul Jones has
beaten EXtcrminator In suburban
handicap revival at Belmont Park.
In addition TO the best of last sea-
sons Eastern two-ycar-old colts the
impending Derby Will drew three
geldinGs that may this year make
regulations az bright as those of Paul
Jones and EXtcrninator. These un-
ScXcd horses are j. 5. CoSden's Good
Times, John j.. Madden'S Surf Rider
and Harry Payne Whitney's Brooms-
ter.
Good Times. Broomstcr and Surf
Rider must race in Kentucky in the
kentucky and I.atonia Derby il they
arc TO participate in the frst-class
three -ycar-old racing this coming
spring Because OF their altered
state they are barred from the With
crs. belmont. Dwyer and Empire City
Derby stakes as well as from the
l'rcaHncss. Good Times son of
Ihco Cook and Bounty and Eirginian
bred, is particularly promising
Sciding. Lewis Garth bred Good
Times at his ingleSidc farm in Abe
marie County: William Garth, the
veteran. who trained Paul Jones for
his Derby triumph OF 1920. developed
the EeldinS. Last spring at Jamaica
Good Times easily beat kai Sang in
an overnight race. lie laid up through
the summer because of an injury
sustained in the juvenile revival at
belmont Park. and while he was all
ing he wac yielded to facilitate re-
covcry. In November at pimlico IL
two-year- old about. Norwich except
ed. that could have beaten Good
IS questionable whether there was "A
Times over "A distance of ground He
raced as though he wanted then to
go one mile and n half.
Broomstcr. son OF Broomsticl< and