Omaha Made Others Look Sick When He Came Down Home Stretch at Derby B By HENRY McLEMORE United I Press Sports Writer LOUISVILLE Ky May 6 A 6 A lotta hoss i i. i 1 r Not very elegantly put no nor very technical ai r. r Yet a lotta hoss is a pretty apt description of Omaha That h l i i y I big chestnut fellow who came rocking a-rocking down the stretch at t I Churchill Downs Saturday to win the sixty-first sixty running of the Kentucky derby He lie isn't the prettiest horse you ever 4 saw saw nor even next to the When the band started playing My Old Did Kentucky Home Saturday and the field walked slowly out on the track for the parade Omaha was not riot 0 among those who caught your jour eye I I. I No you found yourself watching Boxthorn the Bradley baby Mho sho stepped with those dainty mincing strides Roman Soldier black as 12 and shiny as a 3 new dime Today trim an as a West Wed Pointer Point er Nellie Flap Flag the sweet coquette quette from Calumet or Commonwealth smooth as silk sUk and graceful as a painting painting- Omaha is big awkward and gangling gangling gangling gan gan- gling and 2nd handles himself like one ona of ot these growing up boys who is all arms and legs and neck Hes He's not much to to look at just walking a-walking around or ba back k ing and bucking into the starting gate atc But brethren and hes he's the prettiest sight running you jou ever laid your our e eyes es on And that goes double when a len dollar ten dollar bill right out of ot 1 your our pocket is riding along with him If you had seen een him make snake his bid I in the long turn that leads Into the home stretch on Saturday you'd know know- the sort of prettiness Im I'm talking about There he was was beating alon along alons behind the leaders with the finish line linc just three eighths of a mile away Then Jockey Saunders decided it was time lime to let him go o time to show those fancy running fellows up front a little littIe little lit lit- tle tIe real goodness to running He gave cave him a cluck cluck r or a pat or something something and and Omaha stretching out those thos big gangling legs less of his for forthe for 1 the first time started to roll Ho He I started to roll on down own to that judges' judges stand and the pa payoff off olf window Honestly he must have han said something something some some- thing thin discouraging like Uke that for Plat Flat Eye and Boxthorn the latter with all Kentucky trying to root him home folded up like old opera hats They just apparently couldn't stand the sl sight ht of Omaha shoulder shoulder- in Ing that pounds like it was vas vasa a lump of su sugar r and running like a runaway freight In beating his daddys daddy's derby time of ot 2 07 by two full lull seconds Omaha never once felt the whip Had he had a little competition in the stretch a little whipping toward the finish he might well have done it seconds faster I. I boys hes he's a lotta loUa hoss And 4 if his owner staid Banker Baner Woodward starts him in an the Preakness and the Belmont Belmont and and he says he will will will-who's who's going to lick him him him-