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...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. But the son of Swaps began moving at a torrid pace, overhauled Never Bend in the final strides...
Candy Spots was clearly the better horse, and his Futurity performance suggested that he would decimate any horse his age in the country at longer distances, but Never Bend was nonetheless voted the leading two-year-old in the nation last year. In 13 races he has won ten and never finished worse than third; Never Bend's lifetime earnings of $502,000 make him the richest horse ever to compete in the Derby...
...winter, racing fans looked forward to the next meeting of Candy Spots and Never Bend in the Kentucky Derby. The race was billed as a two-horse affair, a battle between East and West, reminiscent of the epic Nashua-Swaps duels...
Still, the skeptics weren't convinced. A week later No 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...
Candy spots, Never Bend, and No Robbery are the prime contenders for the garland of roses, but three other horses have reasonable chances to pull an upset. Bonjour won the Derby Trial yesterday, and earlier in the year lost to Candy Spots by a nose so small that it took four enlargements of the photo finish picture to determine the winner...