Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 9 | Rip Rap Coming to Front as Big Derby Favorite

V Rip Rap Coming to Front as Big Derby Favorite Sage Sag S Sta Stable le Entry Eq Wins Three of First Four d. d Starts ris S S LOUISVILLE April 16 AI AP- AP 1 Wh Wherever reVer the I ly d is discussed and s such ch places are many hany now no that the historic race raca Is is four wp wJ ks ko a away w y of ot Rip flip Rap one of a trio of derby candidates tes in Jn the table stable of Trainer tax Is beI being g h h ard ard m more and more ore f fre e.- e. tJ i I Turf f followers who 11 Ilave ve been watching watching- his preparation at Belmont Belmont Bel- Bel I mont parji ark say bay that If if he continues u s to train in iri the tile form he has shown th thus us' us far he i is s sure e to tobe be one of the he when the field goes t S lie post at Churchill Downs Saturday May Ia 14 14 With the added event only i a month off th there re has b been eil eti considerable eon con o opportunity ort to to f test fest st the merits merits of lh he rem remaining eligi- eligi bles bies bu but the race remains an AH open I One one Two of f the nominees Npr Npr- pr- pr mask and 1 Benjamin pr-I pr B Blocks Block's o ks k's sons of orl 1922 derby winner are dead others have gone amiss and nd have hav been turned turned out but the creain cream of or the year olds have I skimmed over the t turf rf in Ina a manner satisfactory to U their el trainers and and I still are in the tile running S. S Prominent among these is Rip Rap flap This chestnut colt by Broomstick Broomstick Broom Broom- stick out of Blue Sky to the Sage S stable He did not t lace face the barri barrier r until October of ot last year but won three of his four tour St starts ts i-ts one of f them being the tine Waiden Walden Val Wai- Valden den handicap He showed to ad advantage advantage ad ad- vantage in n the tue Pimlico futurity although unable to get up Hirsch Hisch claimed bad racing luck the beat I colt S SS S The Broomstick colt highly fan fancied fan fan- cled by his trainers wl will the finishing touches es of his training in actual racing in hi the East before beIn be be- being In ing f brought to Churchill Down Do