Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
Gallant Knight Runs Second,
With Ned o Taking Third
and Gone Away Fourth
Money on Kentucky Track.
JOCKEY is VICTORIOUS
THIRD TIME IN CLASSIC
Winner of Preakness Enters 90
Favorite and 0utclasses All
Others in Race-Lord Derby
Presents Trophy to Owner Of
Woodward Stables.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
Special Dispatch to The Star,


LOUISVILLE, KY, May 17.-For
a brief moment, as they went to
the post in the fifty-siXth Ken
lucky Derby, there was lull where
10000 people were silent as 10000
ghosts. Then there came the old
cry of the track, They're off," And
Just moment later there was an
other fashioned war cry that
every leading track has heard. 1t
was, "Come on, Sande!"
Sande, the veteran, was riding
Gallant Fox, the favorite. And
when they came Swirling down the
stretch just 2 minutes and z sec
onds later there was no need to
repeat the call, for Sande and Gal
liant Fox were out for holiday.
Gallant Fox was breeZing along
three lengths in the lead and
San6e was looking back.
Gallant Knight was coming on,
but he never had a chance. Ned
o was closing in, but Buck Fore
mans fast Splinter down the
stretch was too far away. Ned 0
was eating up the track, but he
had too much of the track to d.
gest with only an eighth to 60.
Gone Away was trailing Ned o, in
fourth place, but when you get right
down to it, there was only one horse
in the race. This horse was Gallant
Fox, winner of the Wood Memorial
and winner Of the Preakness. He won
by three lengths, galloping in 2:07 SIS.
with Sande sitting up and looking back
to see some rival ready to make q
challenge. But there was no challenger
even close.
Took Things Easy.
Gallant Fox could have won by an
even greater distance If he had been
pressed, but there was no other horse
in the race. The Woodward entry,
starting without any rush of excitement,
taking life easily as a gentleman far
mer, stuck around third and fourth
place until Sande was ready to get
down to work. Just before the half
mile post was reached, Gallant Fox
slipped on by the field and took charge
of the race.
The red and white of the Woodward
Stables suddenly became an oriflamme
Of victory, a sure beacon of success
as Sande and Gallant Fox breezed into
the lead at the half-mile post, and the
spectators suddenly understood that the
race was over. For they know what
form means down this way, form and
class. and here was the horse that had
all the form and class of this race.
There was no one else even close.
There was no one else as close as the
outposts of Siberian frontier. Sande
set his pace, opened up as much gray
| daylight as he needed, and from that
point on it was merely question as to
fyI frH fyaic s.1
There was all the tradition in the
world back of this race. There was
double-dyed tradition. In the first place
Gallant Fox was bred at the Oldest
nursery of the American thoroughbred.
He was bred at the Belair stables be-
tween Baltimore and Washington, which
dates back before George WashinRton's
| time, back around 1850. This stable
raced horses against Gen. Washington
before he was ever known as general
| and statesman.
Back to Forgotten Years.
The breeding spot that sent Gallant
Fox into action goes back beyond the
time of Washington, Light Horse Harry
Lee. Mad Anthony Wayne, Lord Com
wallis and the Revolutionary knights OF
forgotten years.
Ned O., who finished third, came from
the same breeding center.
| Now there is another echo Of tradi-
ton. Back in 1919, which is matter
OF Il years ago, Earl Sande had MS
chance to ride the winner of the Freak
ness and the Kentucky Derby. But ne
was sure that Billy Kelly could beat
Sir Barton in the derby, so he picked
the former and Sir Barton doubled up
for victory in two of the May classics.
Sande could not put Billy Kelly In
front of the Canadian horse. Eleven
years is a long time to wait. In TINS
stretch or span of time, Sande mas peen
in and out Of the racing game. He was