Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cavalcade, Mrs. Sloane's colt, prepared for his pair of spectacular victories last week by beating Singing Wood in the Hyde Park Stakes last year. But still other Derby material, notably Bazaar and Discovery, have shown heels to Cavalcade. Mrs. Sloane's High Quest is not entered in the Derby, but she may have three more horses in the race...
...Derby would not be a Derby without an entry by Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, whose green and white colors have come out on top more than those of any other owner: four times, twice in succession. Best of his possible entries this year is a big brown filly named Bazaar...
Colonel Bradley had already picked the Derby winners month before in Washington at a Senate hearing regarding the appointment of a New Orleans revenue collector: Singing Wood, Sir Thomas, Cavalcade, in that order. That did not mean, however, that he was not eager for Bazaar to win. She took third money as a 2-year-old, won the Hopeful Stakes, ran down Cavalcade in the Jenkins Memorial at Laurel before retiring for the winter...
...internal hemorrhage at Lexington, aged 22. And to all who talked to him last week, Colonel Bradley repeated his axiom: "Fillies are no good in the spring." For physiological reasons, it is hard to keep them in training. But everyone around the stables knew that largely due to Bazaar's, Mata Hari's and Wise Daughter's successes, among 2-year-olds 1933 had been "a filly year." They also knew that Kentucky's foxiest and most renowned horseman was hell-bent on another victorious drink out of the old Derby...
...once: he won the Derby for the fourth time and for the second time in succession, unheard of in the race's history. What Colonel Bradley was hoping against hope for last week was that a new sequence of fortunate threes had been started which would terminate in Bazaar's victory this week. The prayers of every loyal Kentuckian, whose bet is traditionally "Bradley across the board," were raised that St. Edward of Lexington might somehow work another horse-racing miracle...