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Show Two Big Operators Held No Faith in Morvich and Dropped Large Bunch of Coin But Trainer Burlew Won 8163,000 While most of the wise t ufnien were "down" on Morvich to win the famous Kentucky dtsrby which he did in most Impressive fashion, there were plenty Of reallj wise running horse followers who could not sec Ihe son of Kunnymedc Thai everybody was no-, sold on Morvieh's chance, is nit at ail strange, but the reasons some of the wls unelmcrs have given for being against the Block entry are interesting Among ihe boys who could no4 see Morvich as a derby winner, was Emll Herb, perhaps one of the biggest op-erators op-erators in tin game He lust more than $12" when Morvich won. A i, y, j g - before the derbj Eierz found himself in a part of New York friends He was asked why he had not l.iYc l ' Morvich, to which he re-plied re-plied that Kunnymede. sire of the famous fa-mous Block oh. was a rank .juitter In b-ii' distance events and that Morvich, Mor-vich, too, would show sott when the distance got too long. O-BKll N (.1 F.SSKS WHOM. "Chicago" O'Brien, another big op-erator op-erator who receives his mall in Chicago, Chi-cago, dropped a large consignment of coin on tin dorbj He could see nothing no-thing but P.y Gosh. Pressed for his reason for parting company with '"' favorite, O'Brien declared Trainer Burlew was tipping his milt when he failed to train Morvich OVei the derby distance. "He will never go the full distance ,and I doubt very much if he will be in the money.'' O'Brteh declared declar-ed the night before the race. On the day of the derby l. a was een more certain thai Morvich could not win After looking at the, son of Runnymede i3rien declared the colt was far from being in perfect racing shape saying he w is somewhat drawn out and gave every indication of being unable to step the full route. ; As a matter of fact. Trainer Burlew did not train Morvich over lh- derby dis'.ane. He did not deem it riecfts- saiv Two week-; Vie fore the derby-while derby-while Morvich was still quartered at 'Jamaica, Burlew announcod he was not going to, send the horse over the derby distance, because it would be nothing but cruelty. "I know whu Morvich can do. and I and hot worrying worry-ing over his ability to go th'. full route after he has stepped off Beveh-clghths I A boxer who is training for a 20-rouhd bout does not box 20 rounds everyday, every-day, He prepares for a good hard scrap, because n knows if he Is in condition In will go the distance without with-out trouble' said Burlew Burlew on several occasions became quite peeved when his acquaintances among the trainers at Jamaica questioned ques-tioned his taCtiCS With Morvich Afl-er Afl-er the race Burlew enjoyed a good laugh over the advice his friends had tried to hand him. As a matter of ,fact. Burlew von $163,000 in wagers, iand Incidentally proved to the best American trainers that it Is not nec-essary nec-essary to run the tail off a horse while he Is In training. iPi ( l l l Mi lH THAI K Emll Hers based ins calculations entirely upon his pssl experience pvith horses lie formerly owned McChes- ney, and during that time he was nearly always in charge when that campaigner got hi workouts. Hen was the type if h ose owner who employed em-ployed a trainer but who mapped out bis own programs. Her. .!s,, found some fault with tin-fact tin-fact that BurlOW steadfastly refUsi d to give Morvich a workout in IhS mud before the big classic, llerz declared he had a hunch that the derby would be staged in the mire. His hunch on .he weather was as far off as his hunch anent the winner's ability to, step full derby distance. |