Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-29
WIN, LOSE OR
UkAW By FRANCIS s1AAN
Dress Rehearsal Today

LOUISVILLE April 29.-AS an authentic pre- Kentucky
Derby test the Trial falls te short About all the one
mile prep proves that horses don't belong in
Saturdays big run.
They started the Derby Trial Purse back in 1924 as an
overnight Black Gold the winner went on to win
the Derby But it was long tme-ls4S to be specific
before another Derby winner off winning Trial
That was Citation.
All in all only four Trial winners took the big pot
Black Gold Citation Hill Gail 1852 and Dark Star the
following year. More colts-six in fact-nished second
In the Trial and saved their run for the Derby They
were Lawrin, Galahadion, Whirlaway, Ponder, Middle
ground and Determine.
backgrounds year was 1850 and 1t came up mud
just as todays track Off Max Hirsch who trained
underground QUILTED his colt with leather mud boots
1t made no difference to Max whether the water and mud
made backgrounds feet heavier ALI the veteran King
Ranch trainer wanted was a formal workout, dress
rehearsal.
SO BLACK GEORGE, a speed horse lasted to win the
Trial -Four days later in the Derby battle-ground beat
Hill Prince by length and quarter and Black George,
who got in the by virtue of his Trial win finished up
the track-14th and dead last.
Nobody with superior intelligence was out much
money Black George sent off in the Derby at q TO
In the 1858 Trial. OF course, 1t different Dark
Star and looked very good Even So he paid s5l 30
when he the Derby with Native Dancer in the field
coupled yet an entry with Social outcast. how
fellow to pick against Alfred vanderbits gray?
remember,
Star won by head over The Dancer, who bumped
rather rudey at the clubhouse by Money Broker who
finished second to Dark Star in the Trial Oh yes since
1898 the Derby Trial Purse had been promoted to the
Derby Trial Stakes.
AS MOST QUALIFIED observers it anybody still
his feet Derby Day considered qualfiedD Money
Broker Native Dancer half around with his meaty
right rear fender The chart callers report in part read
as follows:
y at he first hv
Money Broker easd back to racing ROOM
wide during the run to the upper turn then saved ground
entering the stretch finished strongly could not
overtake the winner although probably the best . :"
Well, The Dancer went to be one of the all time
best and Dark Stars day in the brief went
wrong at Pmco and Al Popara who rode Money Broker
says racing lost pretty good horse
There occasion to bring up the Dark Star-Native
Dancer-Money Broker incident not so many weeks
the eve of the Florida Derby Popara present
OF Jimmy Donns parties and he was saying:
Money Broker didn't lose that for Native Dancer
barely nudged Vanderbilt's horse"
4 But you did hit hm?" party guest asked.
: mot hard enough to make Dark Star the Derby
winning bum lot of people think. shucks Dark Star
was real good colt"
4 WHAT THE TRIAL MAY DO this afternoon is refine
the Derby field which much too large Right now they
will need more than single 4sta starting gate to get
the field Off If rain continues and the Churchill strip
off 1t Is possible that 20 horses will go postward
AhH Ilgure' ike Dig Hgnt crowd estimates almost
always Is exaggerated early In Derby week But it's fact
there lot of horse who to awed by
Tim Tam, Silky Sullivan and Jewels Reward. They ap-
pareny feel that 1t is ordinary crop 3yearolds and
that something paying about $97 10 might pop down.
The Trial is almost certain to eliminate two or three
If horse is badly outrun in this mile and showing
no signs Of going faster than the leaders in the stretch
1t is senseess to start him in the Derby although some
owners with yen for seeing their colors year after
year.
Which brings up the matter Of silky Sullivan fourth
In the Stepping Stone, 7furong prep for the Derby
last Saturday Old Come-From-Behind seems to have
more people looking favoraby upon him down here than
ever Silky running mostly for exercise because the
Stepping Stone three urongs shorter the Derby
and certainly not the California colts distance He Just
ran anyway, which shows how important these preps
tests and trials are 4