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Show MORVICH LOOMS UP AS RIVAL OF MAN 0' WAR I PR( )MISES I ' BE BIG SENSATION OF I HREb-VliAR-OLDS T- B BOB DORM N JAMAICA, I. I . April 14 Does a race liorse eagerly await the call of l he barrier? I am positive Morvlch. the wonder two-year-old. Is having a hard time of It awaiting the running of the ! Louisville Derby. I Also unless I am badly mistaken ' Morvlch ih certain to be us big a sen-1 sen-1 nation as a throe-year-old as he WB H ! In the two-year-old class. Fred Burlew. his tralnei. who has , : been connected with the running game ! for 30 years ln the capacity of trainer, remarked to me as Morvlch was hh ddlcd for his first tryout of the , j ear: Morvlch i the greatest horse I i have ever trained However. he i j such a glutton for work that it is I some Job to keep htm from going I stale. "Ho 1? practically- ready for the i derby as he Is It doesn't take long ! to get him In shape. I want him to be at his best for the derby, and if he is will make us all throw out our I cheste." After a winter of idleness. In which the only exercise he got was bolnj; I led around the big stable where b Quartered. I watched Morvlch turn In a wonderful mile hh first time out. ! He negotiated teh distance in 1:44 1-6 Recently without a trace of nrgliiK and, for a part of the half mile at least, under a pull at the hands of I his rldr, Morvlch covered the distance dis-tance In 47 4-6 seconds I Morvlch Is a remarkable hors" H . was unbeaten as a two-year-old n I form he looks to be in for another big year. If he i omos through as three-year-old he will be entitled to be compared with the gre-u Man o'-1 o'-1 War. Mjic H il 111 FOR "RIAL Fl. M IdPXSttMSFLili. n (i rr if rnrlrn srT i W7tMWTitfMmfi ilBf irTBTITMfflIsSllSJSJSSl |