Twenty Grand et al.

Mrs. Payne Whitney's big chestnut colt Twenty Grand was last year's Kentucky Derby winner and three-year-old champioit. His winnings for two seasons were $259,925. He was one of the few horses in the U. S. who was thought to have a chance of beating Australia's late great Phar Lap. This spring there were reports that Twenty Grand was ailing. Last week this was verified. A middle tendon in his foreleg which he ruptured in training last autumn had grown weaker instead of stronger. Mrs Whitney's stable manager said Twenty Grand would be retired to the Whitney farm at Lexington, Ky. for "a short term at stud duty, then a long rest."

The only horse who won more money than Twenty Grand last season was his owner's nephew's filly Top Flight. Her winnings--$219,000--were a world's record for two-year-olds. Top Flight was a favorite for this week's Kentucky Derby until last week when, in her first race of the season, the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, she finished fourth. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney withdrew Top Flight from the list of Derby entrants.

Withdrawn also last week was Shandon Farm's Burning Blaze, another winter-book Derby favorite who was lamed in a race at Louisville. "Sonny" Whitney had two other entrants left. His aunt had six eligibles. Her daughter-in-law Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney hired Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor to ride her entry Stepenfechit. Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns "Bradley's" (gambling casino) at Palm Beach and a racing stable at Lexington and who had predicted the downfall of Top Flight, still thought Mrs. Louise G. Kaufman's Tick On would be the horse to beat.

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