Evening star., 1941-05-05
Stretch Duel Looms
Between Fitz's Ace,
Record Maker
Phipps' Colt Is Only Star
OF 1910 Racing WhirIy
Hos Yet to Beut
BY ORLO ROBERTSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, May 5.-Whether
Whirlaway, the vagabond king of
NE turf. returns to rags and rogue
IKE ways or takes stranglehold on
the 3-year-old crown will be deter
mined Saturday when the Kentucky
Derby winner hooks up with Bold
Irishman in the $4,000 Preakness
ct Pimlico.
It's going to be mighty long time
before Whirly's record smashing
performance in the Derby is for
gotten by the 100000 who saw the
little chestnut burn up Churchill
Downs homestretch Saturday with
2:ol2s clocking, beating Twenty
Grand's mark by Is of second. But
n Bold Irishman, from Mrs. H. c.
Phipps' Wheatley Stable, he'll meet
a horse that also can turn on the
heat in the final drive.
The Irishman. kept out of the
Derby fy slight injury, is the only
high-radking 2-year-old of 1910 that
figures 10 bar Whirlaway's path to
the mythical triple crown" which
also includes the Belmont Stakes.
Great Stretch Duel Looms.
The chestnut from Warren
Wright's Calumet farm in the blue
grass country whipped all but the
Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons- s-trained
Irishman and King Cole in the
Derby. But King Cole, regarded only
as sprinter, has been beaten badly
by Market Wise. who could do no
more than thirds lengths back
in the Derby.
Fitzsimmons may decide to send
King Cole to the post Saturday If
he does, PreaknesS fans can look for
torrid early pace, since Robert j.
Kleberg, jr.'s Dispose, who carried
the Derby field to the mile post in
1878, also is headed for Baltimore
the great stretch duels, for which
the Preakness is famous, between
Whirly and the Irishman.
Charles S. Howard's Porter's Cap,
fourth in the Derby, and possibly
Royce Martins Our Boots, who
stumbled and grabbed himself at
the start of the classic, also expect
to take another crack at the blue
grass cannonball
Jack Howard also is pointing the
stretch-running Curious Coin for
the Pimlico stake.
Carefully Trained on Turns.
Whether Whirlaway will repeat
his Derby performance in the
Preakness, not even Trainer Ben
Jones is sure. Whirly is just that
kind of colt He was the leading
winning 2-year-old Of 1910
and great things were expected OF
him this season. But he was a
bum" in Florida, hard to handle,
but possessing so much speed that
he ran out at the turns.
1t was not until the Derby that he
ran his race.
The Derby victory, worth $61 .275
and the richest in the stakes his
tory, boosted the earnings for two
seasons to $145,3 for the son of the
English Derby winner, Blenheim.
Plain Ben from Parnell, Mo, who
won in 1888 with Lawrin, all but
slept with his charge for six months
Morning after morning he had
Whirly learning how to take the
turns by having a lead pony force
him into the rail. Pictures even
indicated Jones dressed up the
Derby winner with only one blinker
over his right eye-thus aiding
him in keeping to the rail.
Race Mapped for Arcaro.
Then the night before the big
race, Jones sketched map of the
track for Jockey Eddie Arcaro,
showing him just where he wanted
Whirlaway to be at each point.
Arcaro, who never had ridden the
colt until Friday morning, obeyed
instructions we'll.
As much as II lengths back at the
i7-mile post, Arcaro moved Whirl-
away into contending position
rounding the last turn. Then came
the thunderbolt. He shot between
the pace-setting Porter's Cap and
Blue Pair, and pulled away to win
by eight lengths, running the last
quarter in "a seconds.
He left Hugh Nesbitt's Staretor
and Lou Tufano's Market Wise to
fight 1t out for second with the
decision going to Staretor. The re-
mainder of the field was strung out
Hauyy, the Sfretrh