rENTRIEG FOR DERBY 1 I Records of tho Tree andS Their Chances of Winning S Until a list stamped as official Is given out It Is not likely n winter book on the Derby will appear but In the meantime mean-time the Derby Is already being run In thousands of preliminaries on tracks that are built of Imagination around winter tires and by steam radiators says Merrills Horse Review There arc three candidates which stand put before the others In general estlinaton and they are Abe Frank McChesney and Endurance by Right Heno would come Into this good company com-pany bur for the fact that he Is too far In the East The same observation applies ap-plies to Cruzados except that the Baldwin Bald-win colt Is far In the West with change of climate and 2000 miles of traveling between him and a conditioning for the most noted of American threeyearold events v Abe Frank and McChesney are conspicuous con-spicuous candidates because of great performances last year with the additional 1 addi-tional fact that they are absolutely sure to go to the post on June 22nd If they arc at all fit to race on that date Endurance En-durance by Right Is equally conqplcu ous because her record Is uniformly I the best of any horse In the race because be-cause she belongs to a man of vast I wealth who Is able to spend sums of money In securing for his horses the best attention and training and because be-cause It is believed there is a reasonably good chance of Mr Whitney sending her to Chicago after the prize At the same time all other things being equal Endurance by Right is by no means so probable a start r In the race as Abe Frank and McCheaney Hence I need cause no surprise If she plays third fiddle fid-dle to the two Western colts when It comes to betting on the race f h Endurance by Rlf ht has a better two yearold career than eIther Abe Frank or McPhcsney for the reason that she was good first last and all the time and retired to a winter of rest without having run a race that was not brilliant with I fifteen victories to her credit out of seventeen starts and without ever I having been unplaced In a race Abe rrrnnk had a twoycarold career that was possibly slightly more brilliant than I that of the Whitney filly except In Its closing chapter when it became mediocre medi-ocre He met with an accident In the Maywood stakes at Washington park on July llth and ten days later was beaten by two ordinary colts In the rich Hyde park stakes shortly after which he was retired for the season McChesney was a selling plater during the first half of his twoyearold career and an ordinary one at that hut he finished fin-ished the season with a brilliant display dis-play of speed and stamina that made It hard to guess what his limitations might be V Following close upon the heels of Heno and Cruzados comes another I butch of Derby entries whoso record Is 1 so good that it requires only a moderate improvement for any one of them to step to the front rank These is Allan aDale the Apollo of the race who was one of the most perfectly molded two yearolds that ever graced a track and almost as good a race horse as he was goodlooking There Is the rarely bred Compute who has faced the starter but three times and won one most impressive impres-sive victory I Then thero Is the G B Morris pair Old England who ban won his J only I three starts and Is pronounced an exceptionally ex-ceptionally large and handsome colt and Homestead whose career Is something some-thing like that of McChesney in that he was a mediocre tJ oyoarold early in the sensonf trece t iyhns I developed Into u stake horse of apparently remarkable re-markable promise Mr Morris apparently appar-ently has In these two colts the representatives repre-sentatives of desirable qualities In a race horse unusual speed as represented represent-ed In Old England and unusual stamina stam-ina and gameness as represented In I Homestead G B Morris It will be recalled re-called has won one American Derby with Strathmeath In 1891 Still another prominent candidate Is John A Drakes Runnels who beat Endurance En-durance by Right at Memphis In fact thiswas the most decisive beating the filly over received but was afterward more decisively beaten by her at WashIngton Wash-Ington park Runnels has eight victories victo-ries out of twelve starts to his credit Still another frontrow candidate Is Pentecost This youngster was a disappointment dis-appointment nearly all of last season not because he was not a good colt but because his owner Brown Dick and many others who watched his work Insisted In-sisted on believing he was n world beater = beat-er Pentecost ran gqoH and races now he belongs to John E Madden and Is entered I en-tered by the most noted of American trainers In the Derby The above eleven horses will probably be the most favored animals for the to Derby until developments of one kind or another go to bring out now stars or accidents retire some of them from the favored list