The Washington times., 1934-05-05
WALSH SEES
FOUR-HORSE
BATTLE
BY DAVIS J. WALSH,

BY DAVIS j. WALSH,
LOUISVILLE, KY. May D.
one is to credit what
the eye sees, the ear hears and
the mind rejects, we are having
drama down here in the heart of
old Kentucky on this, the morning
of the sixtieth running Of the
great Kentucky Derby, and $4,000
visitors are having it with us. One
always has a drama on the morn
ing of the derby, much as the aver
age ten-year-old has measles and
dirty finger nails. The next step
is delirium tremenS but today it's
only drama.
Anyhow, this affair is certainly
amazing, stupendous and, in fact,
pretty good and, besides. the esti-
mate about the $4,000 visitors
must be on the level because We
all seemed to have the same
waiter this morning. Also the
same information. This they tell
you is just another three horse
race.
Maybe it is something that will
confound, astound and disrupt
the average train of thought. but
taking mean" on the situation,
I'd be inclined to say that at least
four of those three horses are
Bazaar, Cavalcade, Peace Chance
and Mata Hari. A lot OF people
from California seem to have sent
in the second mortage on Riskul'ls
and, here and there, you do detect
a strange and distressed individual,
muttering something dark and
obscure about Discovery. But II
one of those first four don't Wl0'
you can write it off to chance.
Never At Track
Chance, 1 might mention, is
something that never happens at
a race track. A bet there is always
like a successful operation. Moth
ing really goes wrong, only the
patient is unreasonable and does
not live.
AS a matter of fact, we haven't
had a four-horse race here IN
some years. Usually, there is some
horse that doesn't turn out to be
worth the trouble to shoot him,
but people bet on him and make
him the favorite and then spend
the next "a hours trying to ex-
plain just why it is that Milton
Work has the wrong idea about
bridge. 1t was pretty much that
way for the last two years when
Col. E. R. Bradley won with Bur-
goo King and Brokers Tip, neither
of which was supposed to have
any future except, maybe to the
local iceman.
But both won and now Mr..
Bradley tells you that Bazaar, the
filly, is the horse to beat and 1t
mightn't be a second rate idea to
believe him. Mr.. Bradley likes to
be mysterious about this race -or
certain practical and material
reasons and sometimes this pur-
pose can best be effected by being
ingenious. Anyhow, he first an
nounced he thought he had the
best horse in the race; then sent
her ON a time trial in better than
2:05 for the Derby distance.
Was Disconnected
Running the same way to.
day, Bazaar very we'll could.
might and, in fact, should win,
but Colonel Bradley isn't the man
to be content with rudimentary
drama and so, after the filly
raced within a few seconds of the
track record, he announced he
was somewhat discontented with
her and was practically at his
wits end.
I should imagine the trainers
and owners of Mata Hari, Sing
ing Wood, Peace Chance, Discov-
cry, Spy Hill, Sergeant Byrne
and Riskulus wouldn't greatly
mind being similarly distracted
and unnerved, but they can't
quite seem to make it, owing to
the fact most of the horses have
trained pretty well and two Of
them have even gone so far with
in the space of seven days to
break a few track records for the
mile. Peace Chance did it no
longer ago than the start of the
present week, clearly indicating
turn of foot no other Derby
candidate either could or would
show.
AS for Cavalcade, he broke a
track record in Maryland and
then. according to racing experts,
he shipped badly en- route to the
Downs. I'm not quite sure about
anything down here, but I think
this is like getting an order Of
creame d'asparaguS through the
mail.
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