The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-17
BY FRANK GETTY
United Press Sports Editor

LOUISVILLE, KY, May ia
bay picture horse, with the speed of
the wind and the heart of lion,
and the greatest jockey of modern
times whispering in his ear Gallant.
Fox and Earl Sande-are due to per-
form this afternoon in the presence
of the Earl of Derby, guest of honor
of some $4,000 tumultuous turf fans
in the f1fty-sixth running of the
Kentucky Derby.
There will be a dozen or more of
the country'S greatest 3-year-olds
giving battle to 1.-THE Fox" and
Sande around the mile and a
quarter of road brown ribbon which
encircles the glorious green of
Churchill Downs, but the odds are
and probably will be at post time
that the handsome son of Gallahad
III-Marquerite will join the small
and immortal list of odds on Derby
winners.
Kentucky Backs Own Horses
The glamor of the country's great
est sporting spectacle holds this old
fashioned Kentucky town and its
thousands of visitors enthralled
today.
There's an old-fashioned charm
about this most famous of American
turf fixtures unequaled anywhere,
and 0that goes for EPSON Downs,
where the great races for 3-year-
olds to which the earl Of Derby's
family gave the name first we're run.
Many a great horse has come out
Of the east to stand the test at
Churchill Downs and many have
failed to make the grade, to the ac-
compartment If joyous rebel yells
as some home bred showed the way.
This year Kentucky offers Tan
merry, E. F. Prichard's home-bred,
and the Bradley pair, Breeding Thru
and Buckeye Poet, and many a 50
bill fed into the mutuels here this
afternoon will carry fervent
prayer for the success of a blue
grass horse.
Checkers Make Predictions
The rail birds, the checkers, the
tipsterS and the stable hands, out
shortly after daybreak to watch the
Derby entrants breezed in the fresh
of the morning were talking, too,
Of High Foot, the chocolate brown
son of Prince Pal, who is carrying
the cash of Chicago.
They muttered in enforced adj
miration when T. M. Cassidy's
Crack Brigade and G.. w. Fore
mans Ned o. galloped past the
stands, snorting in their eagerness
to be allowed to run. These un-
known but knowing experts had
kind word for Ziegler's Gone Away
and Stivers' Uncle Luther,
In all Kentucky Derby history,
there have been just nine odds-on
favorites, including the immortal
Old Rosebud which set the present
record of 2:03 2-5, which have won
the blue ribbon classic and it looked
today as though Gallant Fox would
be the tenth.
The Derby crowd is the smallest
in some years. Chicago didn't send
it's customary contingent, and there
is not the exasperating congestion
which has made mad house of this
old Kentucky town in the past.
Field Smaller Than Usual
The field, too, is smaller than
usual, due to the fact that Gallant
Fox spread-eagled his fields in the
east this spring.
Sixteen were named to go over
night, three of them doubtful start
ers.
The favorite drew the favorable
post position, seventh from the rail,
which will make it easier for Sande
to get Gallant Fox under way, and
with such a small field there should
be no reason why the race is not
truly run.
The possibility of showers this
afternoon did not greatly alarm the
hackers Of Gallant Fox, although
if the track proved sloppy, there
was bound to be rush Of money
for Tannery, as the Belair horse
has yet to prove his mettle in the
soft going.
Earl of Derby Attends
Kentucky Derby crowds are as
picturesque as Kentucky Derby
horses and this years proved no
exception. The presence Of the earl
of Derby, due at noon from Lex
ington where he has been confined
by a mild attack of the flu, added
a flip to the affair heretofore un-
known to the VISITORS at Churchill
Downs.
A little white pagoda was erected
for the special use of his lordship
on the clubhouse lawn 1t was car
peted, glass inclosed. isolated
Lord Derby was to cone to
Churchill Downs in a private train,
accompanied by Joseph Widener.
whose guest he has been at Lexing-
ton.
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