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Kentucky Derby winner Chateaugay showed the skeptics he is a good horse in Saturday's Preakness, but Candy Spots proved he is a great one. With a brilliant stretch drive, the oddly-marked California colt captured the 89th running of the Pimlico classic by 3 1/2 lengths and established himself firmly as the best three-year old in the nation...
...Derby loss was the first of his career, and it might have been attributable to a surprisingly poor ride by Willie Shoemaker. Three times during the race "Shoe" got Candy Spots into a tight squeeze where he had to be checked, and this might have thrown the California colt off enough to cost him the victory...
There were nine thoroughbreds in last week's 89th Kentucky Derby, but as far as the crowd was concerned there were only three. And what a trio. Rex Ellsworth's California colt, Candy Spots, drew most of the attention, partly because of his huge size (16.2 hands) and partly because in six starts, he had never been beaten. "I've got the right horse," said his jockey, Willie Shoemaker, who had ridden six of the nine entries. But for the first time that anybody could remember, there were two undefeated horses in the field. Eastern money...
Candy Spots has raced six times in his brief career and won them all. After the colt won two minor races at Chicago, his jockey, Willie Shoemaker, advised the horse's owner to shell out $25,000 and make him a supplementary nominee for the $347,000 Washington-Arlington Futurity, in which he would face the best two-years-old in the nation, Never Bend. Candy Spots stumbled at the start of the race; as Never Bend moved toward the lead at the half-mile of the seven-furlong event, Candy Spots was still 7 1/2 lengths behind...
...Robbery was entered in the $90,800 Wood Memorial, where he would meet two of the better three-year-olds in the country, Bonjour and Crewman. (Crewman had polished off Never Bend by nine lengths in a race last year.) No Robbery's opponents never saw anything but the colt's posterior; although jockey John rots was fighting in vain to keep the horse running straight, he won by 2 1/2 lengths, a second off the track record for 1 1/4 miles...