Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-28 | Page 12 | Top Flight is Losing Ground with Critics

TOP FLIGHT IS LOSING GROUND WITH CRITICS I Noted Two Two- Year Two Year Old Must Win at Jamaica to Remain Rc- Rc main Favorite i CHICAGO April 28 UP UP The The growing suspicion that Top Flight Is too small and effeminate to win the Kentucky derby seems likely to remove the unbeaten filly from the favorites favorite's position before the bugle sounds at Churchill Downs nine days hence FIRST TEST SATURDAY Winter book betting Is largely based on year two form and Top TopFlight TopFlight TopFlight Flight by that token has been stoutly stoutly stoutly stout stout- ly backed by the majority o of ot future betters Top Flight was unbeaten in seven straight starts and champion of ot her class as a juvenile but will not rece receive e her first test lest as a R 3 old until Saturday in the Wood Memorial Memorial Memorial Mem Mem- orial at Jamaica Only a victory In this mile and 70 yards race will vill keep Top Flight in inthe inthe inthe the favorites favorite's position in the winter book Colonel E. E R. R Bradley who has twice seen his horses run two one in the derby is one of the m many ny prominent turf men who doubt Top TopFlight's TopFlight's Flights Flight's ability to go the thc derby dis dis- dis- dis tance against bigger horses Top STop Flight will be beaten in the derby because she does not have the strength and stamina to go the dis dis- dis Ill I'll tance said Colonel Bradley bet to that Top Flight doesn't finish among the first three in the derby Id I'd say Tick On is the horse to beat Tick On On second choice in the winter win vin- ter book made his first 3 3 old arold st start rt in mile and 70 yards race at Havre de dc Grace Md yesterday esterday and finished second to Sprin steel another another another an an- other derby candidate The chart however reveals that Tick On was shuffled back to sixth place at the first turn and was bottled up In the therun therun therun run down the back stretch Swinging Swinging Swing Swing- in ing wide In the home stretch Tick On closed gamely and md was only a length back at the finish