The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-07
FIGHTING FOX ! BOOKIES PICK
 OF GREAT FIELD
Bull Lea Figured to Force FavOrite All the Way;
 Race Goes 6:3O E.D.T.
By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff C0rrespondent)

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 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky, May 7.-UP)-Today they sing an- other song for the Old Kentucky Home. A bugle's summons rides the wind, bright silks war against the sun dust and noise for eight score beats of your heart
 Then we'll know the 1888 Derby winner-newest in a royal line whose blood has run forever blue.
 Take it from those who say they know, it will be a fox hunt-a fight ing fox hunt, with nine other colts chasing the big bay beauty from the Belair stud down to the pay-of line. Therell be $50,0OO and blanket of roses waiting there for the first one to reach it. Post time is 4:30 p. m. (6:30 D. m. EDT) and some 85,000 persons will be here for it.
 The most unsentimental gentle- men of them all-the bookmakers- whose hearts are untouched by any, thing save the denomination of a bill, held the full brother to Gallant Fox, who won the Derby in 1930, at the short odds of 2 to l. It would occasion no surprise if, when the field of 10, the smallest Derby field in 16 years went to the post, Fighting Fox had been hammered down to even money. All over Louis vile, damned with Derby fans as it never has been before, Fighting Fox was the name on every tongue. Even those who planned to place their money on one of the longer priced colts admitted that the horse with which William Woodward hopes to win the Derby for the third time, was the horse to beat. He owns Gallant Fox and his Omaha won in 1885.
 No one was braSh or rash enough, however, to concede Fighting Fox the race before it was run. Even his own stable concurred with the gen. eral belief that the field, while a compact one, included more solid and capable three-year- than ever answered the call to battle since Aristeds won in 1875 and that was the first one.
 Do you think he's got a breeze? If you do give look at the quali- flcations of some of his rivals:
 Bull Lea: Second in the betting at 5 to 2. Winner of his last two races and in each of them he set new track record. Probably would be the favorite if his sire was not Bulldog. who never liked to go more than mile and a sixteenth, and the Derby is mile and a quarter.
 MenoW: Third in the betting at 6 to l. juvenile champion of 1887 and far and away the fastest horse from the starting gate, is almost certain to cut out the early pace, proved he wasn't a quitter by run ming smashing second to Bull Lea in the Blue Grass Stakes.
 Must overcome the jinx, however, that has prevented any Futurity winner from ever winning the Derby.
 The Chief: Will go to the post magnificently trained by Earl Sande who knows thing or two about Derbies, having booted home the winners of three of them. Proved his fitness by winning the Derby trial of mile on Tuesday in the second-equaling time of 1:35 4-5. Another mile like that today and he could stagger the last quarter mile and still win. Will be the sen- timental favorite because he was to run as an entry with Stagehand, Sande's mighty stretch runner who was withdrawn because of illness. Too, a victory for the Chief would save the winter book betters, who laid it on the line in chunks when Stagehand was fit, close on to mil lion dollars.
 Lawrin: Tremendous early foot. Will have the best jockey in the country, Eddie Arcaro, aboard. Lost to the Chief in the Derby stakes only by head, despite the fact that he was running in bar plates to protect his tender hooves. He will be lightly shod today, which will give him added speed, just as a switch from brogans to track shoes would benefit human sprint CT. Winner of the Flamingo stake in Florida, and superbly conditioned.
 Dauber: Runner of smashing second to Stagehand in the Santa Anita Derby. The most brutal Istretch-runner in the field. Slow to start, Dauber turns it on full force in the run for home and IS capable of taking it all unles left too bar behind in the first mile. Should 1t suddenly come up mud, Dauber will be an odds on favorite. he revels in the goo.
 Can't Wait: Second to Fighting Fox in the Wood Memorial when he closed like a whirlwind to pick up six lengths on the Fox in the last half mile. The only worry of his stable concerns his ability to pick up the Derby weight of 126 pounds. heavier impost than he has ever carried.
 Co-Sport. Elooto, Mountain Ridge' The three outsiders in the field. Nos believed to be of Derby caliber, but will get backing from those fans who recall that in 1913 Donerail won the Derby and paid 9l to l. the longest price in the history of the race.
 All 10 horses named yesterday are expected to go, but the condi- tions of the race allow owners to declare up until 45 minutes before post time. If there are any scratches they are certain to come from the three long shots.