Evening star., 1960-05-04
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
Like q Shooting Star

LOUISVILLE MAY 4-The horses-1o colts and pair
of geldngsminced onto the racing strip Churchill
Downs, all sleek and shiny and highly questionable
ability This the Trial last of the preps before the
S6th Kentucky Derby and cynical note inmate of
the press box observed: 81.
This will be Trial to remember because it has to
be honest Every of these things will have to
go all out to there's any point in showing up satur
day"
in the next seat nodded sagely Uniform
fidelity must prevail" he said in scholarly acquesence
There are no Lawrins, Whirlaways, Ponders, Middle
grounds and Determines to the Trial as warm-up
and finishing second worse These horses" with
dersve Of his hand hsye got to put today
stay in the barn on Derby day" -.
The nature of racing being what it is not all Derby
winners who ran in the Trial permitted to pull out
the shoppers Mddleground one ran second to Black
George In 1850 when it up mud Max Hirsch
trained the King Ranch colt atteted that he didn't equip
his colt with proper cleats because the colts personal
blacksmith wasn't available He hand however for
the Derby
few of the other eventual Derby winners mentioned
above didn't to be stranng too hard in the Trial.
rather, they used it tightener There of
that nonsense yesterday.
ANOTHER THEME OF THE DERBY Trial yesterday
seemed to be, Lets take little something home" he
Trial carries a $4,000 purse). But when it was over
there was new respect for the winner Beau Purple who
reeed OF the mile in 1856 only threeffths of second
on the track record He whipped the outsider Cuver Relic
by three quarters of length.
naturally, tne naShy showing OF the horse trained
MAZE Odom and unraced a 2-year-old, Immediately
started speculation among the press box experts whether
he could the extra quarter of mile the Derby demands
The punditS didn't have long to null this weighty
question. Poor Beau Purple the Trial with
sore shin and his handlers relegated him the side
lines along with number of the other hoshotS such as
Warfare, Weatherwise All Hands Mosem Chief and Noble
Noor-al of whom figured in early Derby speculation and
all Of whom will sit 1t out Saturday because of various
injuries
Before the Trial nearly of the pundts agreed that
the Derby would be two-horSe between Tompion
and Baly Ache. The Trial expected to prove only
whether Calumet had worthy candidate Apparently the
most famous stable of modern times isn't holding too
strong hand
CALUMET SHOT THE FULL WAD of 3-year-olds
eligible for the Derby yesterdays card Six horses with
riders wearing the familiar devil red with blue bars we're
sadded by the Joneses Ben and Jimmy behalf of Mrs
Gene Markey. In the sixth 6-furlong affair Mark
One was beaten In the Trial there three Calume
running entry-Pied dor, HilSborough and Fango
They finished third, sixth and seventh respectively.
In the eighth yesterday, Calumet forth two
more 3-year olds-Rason and Winter Park. OF the six
only RaiSon And of the six only Raison was not
nominated for the Derby AS matters today the word
was out to forget Calumet for this Derby coming up
Except for the fact that Beau Purple ran so fast
making every post winning one and fighting of
Cuver Relic and Pied dor the seventh race would have
been Just another on dull program.
BEAU PURPLE, WHO apparently has tender legs
because he bucked his shnS second race last winter
In Florida, picked up the Derby and just suddenly
1t down early this morning group of reporters touring
the barns for the workouts the first hear Beau
Puppies detection and told both Jimmy Pitt trainer
Bally Ache and Bob Wheeler who handles Tompon for
c. v. Whitney.
That sure helps ea lot" Pitt reacted with charac-
terstlc trankness Its lousy break for that horses
stable but good for us because know Beau Purple would
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