Evening star., 1954-04-27
Today's Trial
Likely toC Cut
Derby Field
Determine Foyorite
Over Hosty Road in
Test at One Mile
BY the Associoted Press

by the ASSocioted Press
LOUISVILLE. KY. April 27.-
Six three-year-o colts get their
last chance today to prove their
worthiness for the 80th running
of the 100000 added Kentucky
Derby.
The mile-and-a quarter clas-
sic will be run at Churchill
Downs Saturday starting at $50
pm. (EDT) before the usual
crowd of about 100, 900 and mil
lions more who'll see the race
on their television screens or,
hear it on their radios. 1t will
be televised from S to 5:45 pm.
tCBS) and broadcast from Sis
to 5:45 washington time).
Eight actually have been
named for today's $4,000 added
Derby Trial. but two of them
Andy Crevolin's well-liked De-
termine and his stablemate, Al
lied-will be at the starting gate
Saturday. regardless of what
they do this afternoon. That is
they will be unless struck by the
injury jinx that has waylaid so
many worthy Derby candidates
this spring, including the two
winter-book choices - Turn to
and Porterhouse.
Field of 18 Possible.
The Trial, won by three Derby
winners-Citation in 1948. Hill
Gail in 1852 and Dark Star last
year-will go long way toward
deciding how large a field
will battle over Churchill Downs
classic mile and a quarter for
Americas most coveted turf
honor. The record number of
starters is % in 1928, the year
Reign Count ran off with the big
prize. If as many as % should
answer the call to boots and
saddles, it also will be the rich
est Derby The total value of
the 1851 race, the previous
richest which was won by Count
Turf, was $126,100.
Actually. however. the experts
don't expect more than 18 to
be among those present for the
classic.
If the little gray Determine,
winner of six straight stake
races on the West Coast, out
classes the field in today's Trial.
as many expect, he'll scare off
all except his running mate and
possibly Hasty Road from Allie
Reuben's Hasty House Farm.
The morning line for the Trial
had the Determine-Allied entry
favored at 4 to S. with Hasty
Road the second choice at 3 to l.
Reuben and Trainer Harry
Trotsek are hopeful that the
husky Hasty Road will finally
run back to the form that car
ried him to an all-time money
winning record as a 2-year-old.
Completing the Derby Trial
lineup are Close Out, owned by j.
c. Pollard and T. I. Harkins; H.
H. Mundy's Sir Chris. Grace Ko-
siba'S Sub Factor, S. r. Palutsis'
Thunderbird and Hot Pursuit.
last hopeful of an original group
of five entered by Harry F. Gug-
genheim's Cain Hoy Stable
Guggenheim won last year with
Dark Star. but this year all of
his stars, headed by Turn-to.
were forced to the sidelines by
injuries.
Barring a sensational perform
ance by Determine this after
noon. Robert S. Lytle's raw
boned. long-striding Correlation
will rule the time favorite
for the Derby at odds of 2 to
or less. Victory in the Florida
Derby. backed up by 31a-length
triumph over c. v. Whitney's
Fisherman in last Saturdays
Wood Memorial at Jamaica.
earned him the place of honor.
The son of Free America
stepped out of his New York
plane yesterday looking every
inch a champion and acting as
if he were ready to challenge
the world right then.
GOyamo Well Backed.
The Derby's second choice may
depend on Determines race to-
day. But it figures to be Goyamo
from Royce G. Martins Wood
vale Farm. if for no other rea-
son than that he'll be ridden by
Eddie Arcaro. who has had five
Derby winners. Arcaro rode
Goyamo to victory in last Thurs
days Blue Grass Stakes at
Keeneland.
Even though beaten in the
Wood. Fisherman. who is flying
here today, should be high up
in the odds. along with Deter
mine. They are the two smallest
horses in the race. weighing not
more than 900 pounds each.
Determines record speaks for
itself. while Fisherman's Wood
performance can be discounted
somewhat since he stumbled at
the start.
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