The Question: Do You Think The Kentucky Derby Is Run Too Early In The Racing Season?

LOUIS R. ROWAN
President, California Thoroughbred Breeders Assn.
Yes. Bad weather during the winter and spring makes it almost impossible for horses to come up to such a race. Horses have no respite at all between a demanding first-season campaign and the beginning of the second.

ROBERT KLEBERG JR.
President
King Ranch, Inc.
Kingsville , Texas
No. Three-year-olds are asked to show their endurance and stamina. Never before have they raced a mile and a quarter. It's the first time you know whether they're good or not. If the Derby didn't test them, another track would.

SID ZIFF
Sports editor
Los Angeles Mirror-News
No. Horses now race the year round. Three-year-olds are brought along faster, the first 1958 stake at Jamaica for 3-year-olds and up was won by Admiral Vee, who had wintered north, against horses that had raced in Florida .