Evening star., 1947-05-02
Star Reward Is First,
|0n Trust Last 10 Be
Filed for Classic
By Sid FEEDER
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Asseeiafsd Press Sports Writer

LOUISVILLE, KY, May IA field
of IA 3-year-olds-tf1e 13 expected
and the annual unheard-of @long-
shot sleeper" was entered at
Churchill Downs today for tomor-
rows 73d running Of the Kentucky
Derby.
The dark horse from the blue grass,
automobile body builder Charley
Fishers Star Reward, was the first
to enter, even before the Downs
secretary's office opened for BUSH
ness, and the California plumbers
horse, Earl Stice's On Trust, was the
last.
PhaIanx, FauItlcss Licked.
But the two to beat still were the
Virginia galloper, Phalanx. and
Warren Wright's Faultless, whose
stable family was all smiles this
morning when the sun came out and
held hope for a fast track.
The Sleeper" in this smallest
Derby field since only nine others
dared to go against Count Fleet four
years ago was Balheim, fair mud
runner from the Murlogg Farm OF
Mrs. r. J. Murphy and her daugh-
ter, Susan Kellogg, of Evansville,
Ind. Given no consideration as a
Derby starter In all the prerace
speculation, his stable decided to
enter him after he won the last race
on yesterdays Downs program.
Then: there were the high speed
Jet Pilot, the notwithstanding Risko-
later, Cosmic Bomb, tiny Bullet
Proof, the movie entry Of Step
father and w. L. Sickle, Double Jay.
who was last years second best 2
year-old; Liberty Road and the mud
running Jett Jett, all of whom were
placed In the lists by trainers,
Jockeys or stable agents in the
steady parade to the entry box that
began at 7::30 am. and wound up
at 1890.
E. c. Dobson, trainer Of Jett Jett,
who was mentioned as a Derby
starter only yesterday for the first
time, probably spoke for all the out
siders when he entered his mud
runner.
"There'ye been "a Derbies, and u
horses have run last in them" he
pointed out. $50 if we run last we
won't be alone 7
Run Through Last Trials.
Even while the entries were being
filed, number of the Derby dandies
came out in the muddy going for
their final speed "blowouts."
Quickest OF these was turned In by
"the cosmetics kid" Jet Pilot, owned
by lpstick princess Elizabeth CAR
dem Graham, who breezed three
eighths OF mile In 81 seconds fiat.
Other three -eighths workouts caught
Double Jay, the Wilmington fDel.)
Pride and. Joy, in, 49,. sore-legged
w. L. Sickle in ::382s and his stable
mate, the 5000, 900 Stepfather, 1875.
Three others splashed through
half a mile in their preparatory
finale. Cosmic Bomb, hope of New
Orleans oil man William Helis, was
clocked in :502s, Star Reward in
:524s and Bullet Proof, the pony
sized Virginian, in 1915.
Fair and somewhat warmer was
forecast by the Weather Bureau
here today for tomorrow afternoon.
Rain was falling this morning and
the Churchill Downs track was
muddy.
In the draw for post positions,
Cosmic Bomb drew the pole position,
Faultless was well placed in the
No. 4 stall of the starting gate and
Phalanx was In the middle of the
track in No. 8.
The others were: 2, Balheim: 3,
Double Jay: S, Bullet Proof; 6, Star
Reward; Z, Stepfather; 8, w. l..
Sickle; 10. On Trust; II, Riskolator;
IL, Jett-Jett; 13, Liberty Road, and
IA, Jet Pilot, whose front-running
style wasn't helped any by the ex-
treme outside spot.