Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-16
SPORTS
GREAT EVENT
tradition and Rivalry On
Parade; Worlds Best
Is Entered
BY WILLIAM
NEA Service Sports Editor

rises and stakes OF more than
5 10000 will be distributed this
year in this land of the free racing
tip and home Of the thoroughbred.
which makes the Kentucky Derby,
May II. with its $4,000 reward
sound like Just another horse race.
Just another horse race-but
what a racel
At Churchill Downs on Derby
Day. tradition and rivalry and
pride 81, In the grandstand. express
ed in the fine face Of a southern
gentleman of the old school, in the
face Of strength between blooded
horses, in the face of a woman to
whom the parade Of well-bred
power out there on the dusty track
brings a new idea of beauty.
This is the heart OF the blue
grass OF oil Kaintuck'. And this is
the race that speaks out what the
heart of Kaintuck' holds dearer
than chunks of gold or oil wells or
factories or power in politics. This
is the race that speaks out the
tender regard of men for horses
that run. The Kentucky Derby is
much more than q race-it Is al
most what you would call a noble
emotion.
The trains from the east the
other day brought in two famous
four-legged enemies. One was
named Gallant Fox: the other was
Crack Brigade. They had come to
the Derby to enact another chapter
in their rivalry this year in the
Wood Memorial and the Preakness.
On the v Of the Derby. Gallant
Fox was two up On the son OF Light
Brigade. In the Wood Memorial.
Crack Brigade fought hard. but in
that grueling drive down the stretch
saw Gallant Fox sweep past him as
they neared the wire. It happened
again IN the Preakness, where the
Belair colt o~verhauled the flying
Crack Brigade TO win by a length
and a half.
A length and a half? Well. that
isn't much, Crack Brigade would
tell you II he could talk. And every
horse race Is different. You have
TO come IN first to win. Maybe Gal
liant Fox won't be so lucky in the
Derby.
And If Gallant Fox could talk.
he would tell you that Crack Brig
ade is one game horse and all that.
but YOU know If you can beat a
horse twice. there isn't any reason
why you just can't 60 on beating
the same horse all the time.
To which Crack Brigade might
tell you that only one horse ever
won a Derby and a Preakness in
the same year and that was Sir
Barton, aid surely Gallant Fox
isn't setting himself UP as any Sir
Bartoni
On the sarne train that brought
Gallant Fox and Crack Brigade
rode a little grazing. square-headed
man, to whom the experience Of
riding under the wire a winner has
happened nearly 1000 times.
Earl Sanoe. handy and hardy,
hoping to ride Gallant Fox to
victory once more. to bring in his
third Derby winner, to come back
as an old man and play this game
IN which holds the odds and to play
1t just as well.
Sande, hard Of hand and cool Of
head-who brought in Zev in his
first Derby victory seven a
ago-who passed them all a couple
OF years later on Flying Ebony
Sande. fighting now to show the
world he is just as good as he ever
was-they will have to be smart TO
outguess him and quick to match
his moves.
In the stands among the l00.OO
people who will furnish that mighty
Come on you" chorus as the field
comes wheeling around the far turn.
will be the man whose family goes
back to the first Derby that ever
was run-the Earl OF Derby-who
himself expresses much OF the ira
dition and rivalry and pride the
great race reflects.
The Earl Is seeing for the first
time the Blue Blood in his native
surroundings. with Blue Grass al
around, all around. Lord Derby will
get an eyeful.
But Gallant Fox and Crack Bri-
gade r not the only horses ir
this race. Colonel Phil II. Chinn
than those astute opinion there
are few astuter. leans, he says. to q
horse called Tannery.
Every horse race Is different. and
the owners Of Michigan Boy, Ned
o. and Snowflake are hoping tina,
the failure Of their horses in the
Preakness may be reversed al
Churchill Downs
The checkers at Louisville have
caught Sydney in some amazing
trials There will be sons Of Man
O. War In the race, and horses
must run TO beat sons of Big Red
There will be people at the Downs
who hope that Gone Away run.
back to the performance where he
beat RooIum last year. Gone
Always grandfather was Broom
stick. and If blood lines mean any,
thing to you. that is a sonorous
mouthful.
A number OF Chicago people are
strong for High Foot. High Foot
was beaten In "a sprint last week
and Gallant Knight took lots Of
dust in the same race. but a sprint
Is q sprint, and the Kentucky