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...Lucky Debonair: the $30,400 Blue Grass Stakes, tune-up for this week's Kentucky Derby; at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The heavy favorite at 3-10, Ada L. Rice's colt charged into the lead rounding the last turn, fought off Earl Allen's fast-closing Swift Ruler to win by half a length. In another Derby prep, Raymond Guest's Tom Rolfe, a son of Ribot, the Man o' War of Europe, raced to a 1 3/4-length victory over Native Charger in the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...
...Lucky Debonair is the best of a bumper crop of California three-year olds. He has won five of eight races this year, and his most impressive performance was a four-length romp in the 1-1-8 mile Santa Anita Derby. It is tempting to pick him to win Saturday, but Lucky Debonair is no Swaps, and our Rule Number Two says that California horses don't finish first at Churchill Downs...
...conclusion that no one was capable of winning Saturday's race. I was in a quandry until I came across the chart of the Blue Grass Stakes at Kenneland Race Track, one of the many possible stepping-stones to the Derby. The race was won by Lucky Debonair, an invader from the West Coast, in the lightning-fast time of 1:49. In the Blue Grass, a horse by the name of Swift Ruler came from ten lengths behind and battled it out with Lucky Debonair in the stretch, losing by a scant half length...
...pickings were slim, Willie Shoemaker had to admit-but what was the nation's No. 1 jockey to do on May 1 except ride in the Kentucky Derby? Last week the Shoe decided that his Derby Day mount would be Ada L. Rice's Lucky Debonair, winner of last month's Santa Anita Derby. "He's a nice running horse," shrugged Willie. "Not big, but he gives you his best." Faint praise, maybe, but the bookmakers were impressed. They installed Lucky Debonair as the early favorite at 3-1 to win the 91st...
...country of the bland, the one-eyed Man in the Hathaway Shirt was a sensation when he appeared in 1951. In those days he was a debonair White Russian, Baron George Wrangel, replaced a year ago by Colin Fox, a dashing British solo Atlantic sailor. Nonetheless, Ellerton F. Jette, 65, retiring this month as president of Maine's C. F. Hathaway Co., admitted that the original suggestion by Adman David Ogilvy to use an "injured man" as a symbol gave Jette the shudders. "Why stress an unfortunate aspect, such as partial blindness?" he asked. He soon found his answer...