Evening star., 1941-04-21
Dispose, Curious Coin
Will Be on Spot
In Racing Tests
Blue Pair, Bushwhoeker,
VoIdinu Groom Also
Must Prove MettIe
BY SID FEEDER,


NEW YORK, April 21.-This is
'1ast chance" week for some of
your very best Kentucky Derby
hopes, and lot of the winter book
investor" are roofing for them as
college sophomores do for "alma
nanny"
In the Blue Grass Stakes at
Keeneland Thursday and the Wood
Memorial at Jamaica Saturday,
several standout gallopers who
haven't done any too well up to
now will have to produce-or else
they're not likely to get that ride
to the Downs to hear my Old Ken
lucky Home"
The Blue Grass will feature the
first 3-year-old duel of those 1910
juvenile standoutS, Whirlaway and
Our Boots, but more important to
the Derby picture is just what-if
anything-such others as Valdina
Groom, Blue Pair and BushWhaCker
can do. The Wood sends the spring
surprise package" Robert Morris,
against Sunny Jim FitzSimmonS'
high-geared King Cole, but beyond
that its going to furnish proof of
whether Dispose and Curious Coin,
the Florida winter heroes who ran
like selling platers Saturday, can
come back to their Southern form.
Our Boots Alone at Top.
AS matters now stand the future
book operators added up lot of
potential profit off the turf's sur
prises of last Saturday and came
up with a new callover of odds
that didn't resemble the previous
prices any more than a thick, juicy
steak does boarding house hash.
All alone at the top of the latest
list was Our Boots, Roy Martins
Bulldog colt. quoted at 3 to as
result of the neat sprint victory
with which he opened his 3-year- old
campaign at Keeneland Saturday.
Hooked up at Al were Charley
lucky HoWards Porter'S Cap,
convincing winner of the Chesa-
peake Saturday; King Cole, the
handsome speedster who turned in
a snappy 1:4025 mile workout, and
Whirlaway, Warren Wright's lead
ing juvenile money winner of 1910,
who rapidly is recovering his 2-year-
old form and should be hot" for
the Blue Grass.
Curious Coin Skids.
Back of these were Dispose, the
Flamingo winner, who was dropped
to to ! off his run-or lack of it
in the Experimental Saturday, in
which he showed not a lick of speed
and wound up last, and J. Fred
Byers' Robert Morris, who opened
at 200-1, but now is backed all the
way down to 10 as a result of his
two fine performances this spring.
He took a mile -and-70-yard purse
last Monday and showed gameness
and galloping in whipping older
horses in the 1-16-mile $4,000
Excelsior at Jamaica Saturday.
Coldstream Studs Curious Coin,
who tired in the experimental sprint
and wound up fourth behind the
non-derby eligible Mettlesome, sank
to 2o-1. hooked up with Rocky Pal
ladino's Little Beans and Mrs. Vera
Bragg's Blue Pair. Little Beans
turned in a snappy effort in the
Chesapeake, where he was just about
left at the post and then came on
to force Porter's Cap into a drive
to win. Blue Pair could only run
third behind two older campaigners
in the Ben Ali at Keeneland, but
will have chance to pull one out
Of the hat against Whirlaway and
Our Boots in the Blue Grass Thurs
day.
Dispose Must Brace.
In this race, E. F. Woodward's
Valdina Groom and r. w. McIlvain's
Bushwacker, neither even a mild
ball of fire thus far this spring, prob
ably will have their final crack at
Derby starters berthS.
Neither Make Hirsch, who trains
Dispose, nor Little Jack Howard.
who does the honors for Curious
Coin, would say whether last Satur-
days failures would have any effect
on their Derby plans. But it's safe
to bet that If the two colts don't
have little more git up and go"
in the wood, they'll have to wait for
the morning papers to find out what
happens at the Downs a week from
Saturday.