DTHE KENTUCKY DERBY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932, Page 8

DTHE KENTUCKY DERBY

BURGOO KING'S EASY WIN

INTERESTING PEDIGREE-

This year's Kentucky Derby, run ' at Churchill' Downs, Louisville, on Saturday, 7th May last, was -ft on by Burgoo King, a chestnut colt owned by Colonel E. E. Bradley, and ridden by li. James. The race was run over a ruile and a quarter, and the; winner's time of 2min 5 l-sseo was well outside the record of 2min 1 4-ssec set up by Twenty Grand last year. , Burgoo King won by five lengths from Mr. J. H. Louchiem's colt Economic, with Mrs. J. H. Whitney's colt Stepenfetchit a head away third. Mr. E. W. Daniel's colt, Brandon Mint, was fourth. Twenty horses started. t , The, track over which the race was run has a circuit of only one mile. The Derby field starts from the bottom turn, and has to take the two bends in covering the distance of one and a quarter miles. MUCH BRITISH BLOOD. Colonel Bradley bred the winner at his beautiful Idle Hour Stud, just outside Lexington,' The colt is a son of Bubbling Over, who carried Colonel Bradley's green and white hooped jacket to victory in the race in ID2O. Five years previously Colonel Bradley had also provided the winner with Behave Yourself. After the Kentucky Derby of 1020 Colonel Bradley declared that Bubbling Over was the best horse he ever owned. However, a fortnight after his victory ■ at Louisville the coifs near fore-tendon gave way, and he was retired to the stud. Bubbling Over is a son of the Englishbred North Star and Keigning Beauty, a .Sweeper mare whose third dam was the imported -mare Berriedale, by Donovan S^t.* h. alf'Bister to Ayrshire. Soon after North Star won the Middle Park Plate ¥J\ J' ?; Joel' Bold him to the United Estates. Mr. Macomber was the purchaser, and he hoped to win the Kentucky Derby •With the colt.' A bowed tendon ended his career, and, as Mr. Macomber also owned Star' Hawk, he sold the Sunstar colt to .Colonel Bradley. North Star's dam was Angelic, by St. Angelq, from Fota, by Hampton. ALSO ON DAM'S SIDE. The success of .Bureoo Kins? h*A r, f,,r.

ther measure ofsatisfaction. for- ■ British; j breeders, as his dam is rMinawand, by': •Lonawand. Minawand. was out: of the*'

jVlmtrng mare Mintless, .who was sold in the Aewmarket December sales when in toal to Lonawand. This ,was in 1915 Xbe price paid for Mintless was 300 guineas. (A correspondent to the '.'Sporting Life" mentions that Mintless was first sold by her original owners,' Messrs A. Day and the late T. Corns, for 25 or' 50 guineas, and the sale to America wasi made subsequently.) . ' As a two-year-old Minawand won a' couple of races for Colonel Bradley. She| was retired to'the stud in 1920, and the. latest winner of" the Kentucky Derby is her fifth produce. ; Ixmswartd, the sire 'of Minawand, will' be remembered as a useful handieapper in the colours of the late Sir E. Hulton. Al-j though he sired numerous winners, they, were or moderate class. He was by Cup-i bearer fby Orme) out o£ St. Flora; byl St. Florian. ■ ' I

OWNER VERY POPULAR. The victory of Burgoo King would be ■warmly acclaimed, as CoJonel'Bradley is ono of the most popular owners racing in the United States. His colt ran in,twelve races last season, and he. won four, ■ but none of them iwas of sufficient importance to indicate that he was likely to prove a formidable contender for the most coveted prize in" American racing JJnrgoo King- is; trained •• by "Dick" Thompson, who on behalf of Colonel Brad- i ley attended the Newmarket sales in 1930 I and purchased a- number of "well-bred mares for his patron. Colonel Bradley has. always been strongly of the opinion thatconstant importation of new blood is essential to success.

Economic, who made most of the running in the Derby, is a chestnut colt by Infinite from Karelia, by Sir Henry from 1 by Meddler from the imported 1 mare Chinkara, by Galopin. . .-:'' The third horse, Stepenfetchit, raced in I the colours of Mtb. "Jock" Whitney. He ran four times last year, winning his I nrst race. -A chestnut colt, he is by The Porter from Sobranje, by Polymelus from Diana, by Merman. Mr. Willis Sharpe "". by whom T. Woodcock and W iUliott are now employed, paid 20gns for Sobranje in the war time, and he ia, the breeder of Stepenfetchit.