Evening star., 1941-04-18
Trainer Hirsch Holds
Hottest Hand With
Five Candidates
Blue Pair, Just Bought
By Mrs. Broee, Is Most
Advanced in Training
By SID FEEDER.


NEW YORK, April 18.-If all you
hear is true, it's going to be full
house and then some out there on
the Downs when MY Old Ken
lucky Home" calls the horses for the
Derby May 3.
For, despite an injury to Bold
Irishman which left his prospects
about as bright as an old oatbag
and not forgetting that the next
nine days racing are going to make
sharp slices in the lists, there still
are two dozen or so of the gall
lopers in the running to get to the
post, At this writing it appears to
be the biggest starting field since
War Admiral gave the horse laugh
to 10 others back there in 81.
Half of the two dozen, topped by
the winter leaders-Dispose, Porter's
Cap, Curious Coin and Whirlaway-
are just about a dead-eyed cinch
to charge out when the starter hol-
lers Come on" The others are
yes-and-no chances, like Mrs. Par
ker Corning's Attention, Crispin
Oglebay's Ocean Blue and Ogden
Phipps' handsome King Cole, with
everything depending on how they
do from here on in, notably in such
tough tests as the Chesapeake to-
morrow, the Blue Grass next mid
week and the Wood Memorial at
Jamaica April 26
Hirsch Holds Hot Hand.
OF the two dozen still regarded as
most likely to succeed in getting the
ride to the Downs, the big hand has
been dealt to your old pal Make
Hirsch, who has four others beside
the Texas-owned Flamingo winner,
Dispose, as possibilities. II Dispose
can't do it, the miracle man of 1885
(remember Bold Venture?) possibly
might pull one out of the hat from
among Mrs. Parker Cornings At
tention, rated as EquipoiSe's best
son: Arnold Hangers Harvard
Square, who has been working first
rate at Belmont; Bold Ventures
boy, Itabo. stablemate of Dispose in
Richard Klebergs barn, or the
River Edge Farms Sheriff Culkin,
which gets chance at Jamaica to-
day to show how he fits into the
picture, if at all. Itabo won his
only 2-year-old outing.
The spring racing to date has
produced two likely starters in Rob-
ert Morris. owned by J. F. Byers,
the Pittsburgh steel man, and Vic
tor EmanuePs Omission. The for
mer appeared quite bit of race
horse in taking a mile-and-70-yard
decision at Jamaica Monday. And
there was nothing wrong with the
way Omission won the Rowe Handi-
cap at Bowie last week by four
lengths from older horses.
Rocky Palladino's Little Beans,
the $500 yearling cripple" has
split pair of decisions with Whirl-
away so far this year and figures to
start, off those performances alone.
Blue Pair Well Advanced.
Of those who still haven't come
back to the races, the most likely
candidates are Blue Pair, sold by
Clyde Van Meter to Mrs. Thomas
Bragg last night for a neat bundle
of oats" and Our Boots, Royce
Martins standout 1910 juvenile win
ner. Blue Pair, from all accounts,
is the most advanced Derby horse in
training right now.
Rounding out the top dozen are
the New Orleans-owned Bull Reign,
a stake winner in California and
second to Porter's Cap in the Santa
Anita Derby, and the sentimental"
starters, T. E. Mueller's Agricole,
working well at Louisville, and Hugh
Nesbitt's Staretor, a maiden as a
2-year-old, but fair sort in
California.
The Saratoga yearling sales can
take a neat pat on the back for this
dozen. Nine of them are products
of the 1899 auction, with Little
Beans at $500, Blue Pair at $500,
Omission at $3.50, Bull Reign at
81 100, Porter's Cap at 81 300 and
Our Boots at $500 the biggest
bargains.
The second flight" is headed by
Ogden Phipps' flying King Cole,
handsome winner of the Paumonok
at Jamaica, but no certainty until
he proves himself over distance
of ground in the Wood. Another of
Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons' hopes. if
Bold Irishman is out, is Greville, son
of the ill-fated Granville of the 1886
Derby. He graduated from the
maiden ranks this week. The finely
bred Ocean Blue, Blue Larkspur
colt out of Man o'War mare, is
counted in-at least until he counts