The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-27
TORUNDERbY Route
in CHURCHILL DOWNS
Champion Will Leave May z
and Step Mile and Quarter in
2:04 at Louisville.
is NOT FINE WORK HORSE
Staggered a Mile in Al Be-
fore Winning Pimlico Flu
turity in Gallop.
is NOT FINE WORK HORSE
Rx HENRY v. KING.

The racing public will get good
.dea whether or not Norwich is a
worthy favorite for the Kentucky
Derby this morning. Time and again
this spring he has proved he has as
much speed as any mans horse and
that he can carry it a mile. To-day
Sc will try to show he can carry it
,hrther.
With Derby weight up--126 pounds
ile will step a mile and an eighth at
..sss. Jamaica track to-day. 1t will be
S:as frs. time he has been asked to go
Lore than a mile, but in almost all of
AIS trials he acted as If he could hold
ais speed for mile and quarter or
farther.
Yesterday Norwich breezed half a
mile in SO.
Fred Burlew. the veteran trainer, has
definitely decided how he will pre-
pare the colt for the $4,000 Ken
lucky classic and it differs greatly from
of race goers assumed he was going to
adhere to. Because the colt had had so
many speed tests and only a few trails
over three quarters many believed he
would not be able to go the Derby
route of a mile and a quarter. But
Burlew knew what he was about. lie
will work his champion a mile and ar
eighth this morning. give him a few
short breezes. then another mile work
out. possibly a race at Jamaica. and on
May ship him 10 Churchill Downs.
There the trainer will work him a mile
and quarter i'm . :04 and with pipe
opener breeze the day before the race
send him forth in prime condition.
Will Make Colt Fit.
When other noted horsemen heard of
his plans they agreed It was the logical
thing to do and that it would have the
desired cffect--have him as fit as hands
could make him.
But even IL Norwich fails to show inn
pressively in his work this morning or
in his mile and quarter test at Louis
vile neither BENJAMIN Block. his owner.
nor Fred Bulew will abandon hope OF
winning the Derby
Despite the fact that Norwich has
fought like bulldog to run in his trails
this spring, he Is not superior work
horse. He proved this several times
last season. While preparing for the
Pilnlico Futurity last fall Burlew sent
him a mile at the Empire City track,
and II was what horsemen call rotten.
1t took him la to do it, and he was
staggering all during the last eight. So
bad was it that Tom Welsh, who had
Joseph e. Wideners Runantell in the
Futurity: Kimball Paterson. who had
Lucky Hour In 1t, and Sam Hildreth,
who had Kai-Sang ready for 1t. were
confident their charge would beat him.
But when it came to. racing the mile
In the Futurity Norwich showed no signs
of quitting or staggering. He finished
like a Man O. War. His race in the
stake was excellent. Norwich helped to
make the running and then came on at
the end and won In a gallop. Runantell
was probably second best, for he re-
ccived one of Clarence Turner's worst
bad rides.
After the race Norwich pulled up
fresh and strong. He looked as IL he
could have gone on and raced an extra
quarter right then, even though he was
two-year-
Among local horsemen Norwich is
FIRST choice for the big stake, but they
all agree he will have to be at his best
TO win, because they think very highly
az Harry Payne Whitney's Olympus.
The Whitney gelding's trial at Havre de
Grace of mile in / 1874 40 was con-
sidered exceptionally fine. but it was
his great race last Saturday, when he
beat Bonifacc. that impressed them
most In their opinion that race was
better than mile trial of 1 49, for II
showed Olympus had speed. stamina
and courage and could beat a horse
OF class. such as is Boniface.