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...tips are in (he air. This week those tips had more than the usual ring of authority. Nobody had to look far to find the favorites in this week's 72nd Kentucky Derby.* They were two-Lord Boswell and Knockdown -and both belong to fluttery Cosmeti-queen Elizabeth Arden Graham, whose Maine Chance Farm Stable has the winningest ways in U.S. turfdom. Early this week, they were prohibitive favorites...
...Arden Varsity. No geographical tag could be pinned on the Arden steeds. They had no place they could call home, despite their perfume-selling owner's sumptuous, 2,000-acre estate in Maine, and her only slightly less magnificent places in North Carolma and Arizona. Elizabeth Arden horses hit the road all year, trouping from track to track...
...quit, even though his owner wanted another of her nags, Star Pilot, to win. Knockdown did it again last week in a nine-furlong workout against Star Pilot (who had already won purses totaling $187,385). Gawky Knockdown was running easily at the finish in 1:56. Reluctantly Elizabeth Arden scratched Star Pilot as a Derby starter, and withdrew another horse, Colony Boy, because of a leg injury...
...Derby Day, Elizabeth Arden's two-horse varsity may get help from an unsung stablemate. Perfect Bahram, whose job would be to make the pace. They were the aces that Queen Arden counted on to rule the Sport of Kings...
...three Arden horses-Knockdown. Lord Boswell and Perfect Bahram-went to the post at Churchill Downs, Elizabeth Arden Graham, who never started a horse in the Derby before, would be on a par with the late Harry Payne Whitney, who sent Upset (the only horse ever to beat mighty Man o' War), Wildair and Damask postward in 1920. The best Whitney could get was second with Upset...