The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-30
Victor in Preakness and Those
Not Ready for Races Will
Have Claim to Title.
BIG CLASSICS TOO EARLY
Hard for Eastern Trainers to
Get Charges in Shape to
Ship to Kentucky.
BY HENRY v. KING.

EVEN IL MOINicil Wits the henluCky
Derby there are host of horsemen,
sportsmen and racegoers who will re-
fuse TO crown him king of his age.
They will not bestow highest honors on
him even il he wins tho classic at
Churchill Downs in record time.
IL successful in that stake all will
agree that he is a good colt, but there
will be thousands who will have
favorite which they will claim is his
equal. if not his superior.
The race in Kentucky will be true
test of speed and stamina. for it is at
a mile and quarter, and there is no
doubt but that he will meet a formi-
dable array of three ear-olds in it.
But there are at least a dozen, perhaps
n score, of good colts which will be
missing from the race. Because the
Derby and the Preakness fall on the
same day-May 13-the good three
ycar-olds will be divided. and when
both classics have been decided it is al
most sure that the winner of the
Maryland stakes will be proclaimed as
good as the winner of the Derby. de-
spite the fact that the Preakness is one
furlong shorter than the Kentucky
event
Besides there are many high class
thrcc-year- olds which are not yet ready
for a gruelling race. Some of them are
gross horses, which cannot be rushed in
their work Others went slightly wrong
and had to be taken out of training. So.
irrespective of the way the Derby goes
there still will be loud cries that this or
that colt will beat the DERBY winner
later in the season. And perhaps their
cries arc justified. May i3 is an excep-
tionally early date to test the speed and
stamina OF i three-year-
weather often Interfcrcs.
The uncertain weather in the East
often plays havoc with a horses train
ing Some years he IL completely
knocked out of training by a snow storm
Just as he is ready to be let down for a
fast trial. Jim ,Fitzsimmons says he is
unable to get a three-year-old ready in
New York for the Derby to be run early
be able to do it but not without taking
great chances of breaking him down.
And all horsemen in the East are of the
same opinion and there isn't one stablng
At the local tracks who wouldn't prefer
TO see the Derby run later in the spring
or in the fall.
Benjamin Blocks Norwich, Harry Sim
clair's Kai-Sang and William A., Harry
Payne Whitney's Olympus. Bunting and
II II. s.t~. irr,n
and the Lexington Stables Lucky Hour.
My Play and Missionary are about the
only colts in the East which are going
to the Derby. The other good ones are
being primed for the Preakness or are
waiting for later events.
In the Preakness are an array OF
three-year- olds which give promise of
giving the winner OF the Derby, whether
he be Norwich, Olympus, or a Western
colt, a battle for titular honors
In Oceanic Samuel Riddle has colt
which is as fast as any colt, with the
possible exception of Norwich. He is
by The Finn and gives promise of de-
veloping into a slayer. In a trial on
Thursday at Belmont Park he stepped
mile without much difficulty in l AZ. 1t
was one Of the best of the season. He
IS a fine locker and If he runs as he
showed he could run early last season
he might develop into the three-year-old
of the season. Or he might disappoint
again as he did last season.
In Snob I'd and Slieveconard John
Sanford has a pair of we'll bred colts
which might develop into two stars.
Holly Hughes. their trainer, is going
slow with them and neither will be at
HE r.Aa H..
In Relay. Ray Jay and All Over Fitz-
simmons has three Colts which might
hold their own in any company. All
showed they have speed and in their re-
cent trials demonstrated that they can
travel distance. All Over Is slow
beginner. long striding colt. but when
he settles down runs fast and acts as IL
he could run all day. All there are at
Pimlico waiting for the Preakncss. Re-
lay won the Walden last fall. beating a
big field of high class youngsters at
mile. That race was in the mud, and
he showed fondness for that kind Of
going, but he can run fast on any kind
of track.
Joseph II. wideners Broomsticlk colt
Runantell Is not out of the running for
thrce-year-old honors. He may not be
ready for the Derby or the Preakness,
but he may be heard from later in the
last fall at Empire City and a corking
race In the Pimlico Futurity. Turner
rode him In the Futurity and put UP a
ride the like OF which novice would be
ashamed of. He stepped him along as
* he were going three-eighths Of mile
ms cad of mile and killed his chances
before he had left the bacistretch. To
= majority OF those who saw the race
he was wonder of colt to finish as
we'll as he did. He earned third honors.
Mrs. Payne Whitney has three colts.
any one Of which might turn out to be a
champion. They are Pirate Gold. n
maiden and half brother to Knobbie.
Galantman. which finished second in
the Futurity to Bunting and Latterman.
All three have been working exceptions
ally well at Belmont Park. Pirate Gold
seems best OF the trio and might be
shipped to Kentucky Tor the Derby.
George Odom's Modo, r. T Wilson's
Pillory, Clifford A. Cochran's June
Grass. Frank Browns Hephaistos VIII
Wallace's Horologe, Charles a. Stone
hams Flannel Shirt. William II. Bulls
Mustard Seed Morton l.. Schwartz's
Column. Commander J. X. l.. Ross's
Spanish Maize. Mrs. l.. r. Lawon's
sweep by, J. S. Cosdens Bigheart and
A. e. Sprcacklcs's Runstar are others
which might upset the ca.c iIations OF
those who stamp the winner OF the
Derby as the champion.
Some or those mentioned showed II
tendency 70 stop early last season aud
race like sprintcrs but majority Of
them arc working over "a ,Iiatanco ~ |