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Women Owners Target Derby Glory With Top 1927 Fillies
Ten women owners enter Kentucky Derby plans featuring Reigh Count Anita Peabody and other 1927 standouts. Reigh Count is the heavy Derby favorite ahead of the Preakness, with rivals including Sun Beau and a field of prominent silks from Mrs. Hertz Mrs. Vanderbilt and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tresle M. Hoots
Oklahoma
Reigh Count
Anita Peabody
John Hertz
Chicago
George Sloane
Brooms
Saratoga
Bludgeon
Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
Oh Say
Belmont
War Filter
Peter Simple
The
Birds
H. C. Phipps
Mills
New York
Jimmy Fitzsimmons
Havoc
Thunderer
Diavolo
Nixie
Ethel M. Cooper
Happy Time
Whitney
Katharine Elkins Hitt
Teddy
Louise Viau
Redcliffe
George B. Cox
Keith
J. Bimpson Dean
Friar's Hope
A. B. Stelle
Beth
Payne Whitney
Greentree
Glade
Bart Sande
Reigh
Tile
W. S. Hilmer
Kilmer
Henry McDaniel