Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-03
Sword Dancer
Jockey Loses
Foul Claim
BY CHARLES M. EGAN
Sports Editor Of The star

LOUISVILLE. May 2.--TOmy
Lee. an English-bred, Texas
,wned colt with the heart Of
! lion. hung on like grim death
the long Churchill
Downs stretch this afternoon
% stave OF a terrific challenge
BY the Virginia foaled Sword
Dancer and win the 85th rum
hing of the $l63.750 Kentucky
Derby by a skinny nose.
Then those in the sweltering
Of about 100000 who
had backed Tony Lee down to
S7-10 had to suffer for another
II minutes or so while the stew
ards deliberated on a claim
If foul made by Bill Boland
against Willie Shoemaker, rider
Of Fred Turner. jr.'s triuIn-
plant boy.
After viewing the films for
What seemed like a blue moon
10 many in the big crowd. the
diSallowed the claim
that Tony Lee bore out enough
70 interfere with Sword Dancer.
Heat Didn't Matter
Tommy Lee, who has done
most of his racing in sunny
California. found no trouble in
coping with today.s record heat
or l94.2 degrees, in becoming
he second foreign bred horse
ever to win the Kentucky
Derby. Omar Khayyarn, the
1917 victor, also was foaled in
AS for the weather, 1t was Of
championship caliber, too. This
vas the hottest Derby in history
by IA degrees, and indeed. was
the hottest May 2 ever recorded
n Louisville.
First Landing, last years
2-year-old champion and an
1875 favorite today, closed well
after getting out of close quar-
.ers and finished third, IA
lengths back of Sword Dancer.
Royal Orbit. a 45-l shot
because of his outside post
position in the field of II, also
finished fast to get fourth
money. a length back of First
Landing.
Brave Run for Filly
Fifth to finish after making
a brave run which had her in
third place at the eighth pole
was Silver Spoon. c. v. Whit
ney's f1lly champion who won
ler first six races and had
never been beaten until last
Saturday at Churchill Downs.
Silver Spoon went of at nearly
ILL today, for in IS Derby
Regret, in 1915, was
,he only filly winner.
After Silver Spoon. the order
of finish was Finnegan, Ounce,
Open View, Atoll. Rico Tesio.
Festival King, John Bruce,
Easy Spur. The Chosen One.
Dur Dad. Die Hard and Troilus,
,he early pacemaker.
In giving Jockey Shoemaker
MS second Derby triumph
Willie might have had another
)ne if he hadn't misjudged the
inish line on Gallant Man two
=. Tony Lee ran the
classic In.Is one-quarter
n 2:021s, the seventh fastest
Derby in history. The game
.olt's time was four ifths of a
second slower than the Derby
'ecord of 2:0125, set by Calu-
nets Whirlaway in 1941.
Calumet Scratched
Calumet Farm. whose 3-year-
olds have won the Derby seven
times, had no representative
in today's race. Trainer Jimmy
Jones withdrew On-and-On
this morning, thus reducing
the diversified field to Is colts,
The gelded Easy Spur and the
Ally. Silver Spoon.
Tony Lee. who was never
worse than second at any stage
of the long grind. was listed at
To on the odds board from the
very start, while CHRIS Chen.
ery's First Landing, the antici-
pated favorite. was Al in the
early betting. Each was To at
the close. but the final figures
s howed First Landing the
choice, $3.50 to 1910.
Tony Lees payoff in the
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