Evening star., 1941-03-09
Race Held Wide Open
With 80 Nominees
OF Winning Glass
All Topnotch ElieibIes
Named; Bradley Won't
Have Colt in Event
Rv tie Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE. KY March 8.-One
hundred and twelve of the Nation S
best 3-year-old thoroughbredS were
nominated today for the 9th run
ming of the $4,000 added Kentucky
Derby, but not more than Is are
likely to go to the post May at
Churchill Downs.
During the years from 1881 to
1910. inclusive, 1,l47 thoroughbredS
were nominated for the Derby, but
in that span only 1856 faced the
starter, an average of about IA to
a field
However. there is no JohnstoWn or
Bimelech this year to hold the field
down as there was in 1889 and 1940
and more owners perhaps will con-
slider the chances of their eligibles
worth the $500 starting fee. In
1899 and 1910 only eight horses
faced the barrier The largest start
ing field was % in 1928, when Reign
Count won.
All Top 3-Year- Olds Named.
But it is a long, tough and expen-
sive Job between now and Derby day
getting a thoroughbred in shape for
the gruelling Ia mile race, and
Col. E. R. Bradley, owner of four
Derby winners, is reputed once to
have said the odds of being able
to pick a single horse which would
start in the Derby were about to l.
AS expected, all of the top 3-year-
olds were nominated, including
Charles S. Howard's Porter's Cap,
winner of the Santa Anita Derby;
Whirlaway, Warren Wright's pride
of the Blue Grass and leading ju-
venile; Dispose, winner of the Fla
mingo Stakes and leading hope of
the King Ranch; Our Boots, owned
by Woodvale Farms and winner of
S7l, l,351 as 2-year-old, and Wheat
ley Stables Bold Irishman, winner
of S42, ,405 last year.
In addition to these many other
top-notch 3-year-olds were NOM
mated.
No Bradley Nomination.
Col. Matt Winn, president of
Churchill Downs, who has seen
every Derby since Aristides won the
first in 1875, says its wide-open
race" this year with at least 80
from which the winner may come
And such a situation is more than
pleasing to the colonel as he en-
visions a larger crowd.
For Kentuckians who generally
bet a couple of dollars annually on
the Bradley entry Just for luck
there will be no Bradley starter
this year. The colonel announced
several weeks ago he had no horse
worth nominating, but added he
would be back next year after his
fifth Derby victory.
James Carroll of St. Louis re-
ported the following winter book
odds:
Our Boots and Dispose, 4 to l;
Porter's Cap. Curious Coin, 6 to l.,
and WhirlaWay, 8 TO /,
Our Boots Far Advanced.
Following is the latest on some
of the Outstanding entries:
Our Boots-far advanced in train
ing at OaklaWn Park; recent trials
would indicate nearing racing con-
dition.
Whirlaway-at Hialeah Park re-
covering from popped splint": eX-
pected to resume training shortly.
DispoSe-marking time at Co.
lumbia, S. c., after sparkling Fla
mingo victory.
Curious Coin-Jack Howard has
this fellow idling at Hialeah pre-
paratory to transfer to Keeneland.
Bold Irishman and King Cole
legged up" in steam-heated barn
at Aqueduct and ready to get down
to serious business.
Bushwhacker and New Englander
keeping pace with Our Boots at
Hot Springs with Arkansas Derby
preliminary objective.
Attention and Harvard Square
with Dispose at Columbia and re-
ported ready at the first asking
upon transferring to New York.
Porter's Cap Easing Off.
Porter's Cap-easing off tenn
porarily at Santa Anita following
derby victory and subsequent tough
race in handicap. Churchill Downs
next stop
Blue Pair-on the shelf at Keene-
land temporarily as the result OF
leg filling.
Swain, Good Turn and Bull Reign
awaiting transfer East following
campaigns at Santa Anita.
New World-galloping lightly in
Maryland.