Show 1 MAY WORRY DERBY FAVORITES c o 1 iL ft i 7 vI 3 4 i L Semaphore Rapidly Improving May Surprise in il Turf Classic By MAX RIDDLE Copyright 1932 NEA NE Service Inc mc Semaphore is I one of the six elgi bles which may be asked to carry the theamous f famous amous silks sik of Mrs Payne Whitneys Whitney's Whiney's Greentree stables in the Kentucky Derby May 7 Last year Twenty Grand carried the famous pink with black striped I sleeves sleeve to victory victor to break a year 17 old record for or the race and course Semaphore does doe not riot seem a colt col o of Twenty Grands Grand's merit merIt but that is n no guarantee he will not be a topnotch 31 year 3 SPARK OF GREATNESS As A a juvenile Semaphore was wa any thing but a champion and nd was hard har I put to get in the money in many o of ot othis f his races Yet he seemed to have a 3 spark of ot greatness and despite despie his hi poor record was often ofen asked aked to der high weights weight In Ill addition he had hac I Ithe the m misfortune to meet The Bull Bul Mad Ma 1 Pursuit and Delivered when 7 those erratic horses were iere displaying unbeatable form Early In the Saratoga meeting Mad Mam 1 Pursuit and Pardee beat Semaphore e in a maiden affair In which each carried carried car car- ried ned 17 pounds The Te following wee week tc he was wa third to The Bull and Th The e Crane The good colt cl fir fin finished fn I. I behind Semaphore that day UnworrIed by these defeats defeat the chest chestnut chet I. I nut son of or Pennant flashed home I in n front of or Americana Senado and Dya Dyak Dyak The Greentree colt col then attempted ci to concede weight to Tick On Americana Ameri Amer i. i cana and others and finished seventh Possibly the fact that the Saratoga i track was wa one big puddle of mud con car I. I to his hi defeat als also 0 took his measure and was in recel receipt mt of ot weight while doing it it After finishing a discouraging twelfth to Tick On and Sweeping Light in the Hopeful and eleventh to Top Flight in the Belmont Futurity Semaphore forced Senado to the limit in the Faulkner Purse at L Laurel urel and then came through to a brilliant second second second sec sec- ond to Delivered in the Queen City Handicap SENSATIONAL SECOND The Queen City Handicap was wa in ever every wa way sensational Pompeius the highly regarded Coe Coc entry could not get close coe to the leaders while Semaphore was wa well vell wel forward during the whole race He took the lead after entering the short stretch and andas as was beaten by the barest margin margins when De livered closed cosed with wih a rush rh |