HORSE RACING

TRIPLE CROWN RATINGS

Career Horse S 1 2 3 Earnings 1. Chief’s Crown 11 7 3 0 $1,001,682 2. Proud Truth 7 6 0 0 $475,197 3. Rhoman Rule 7 3 1 1 $153,848 4. Stephan’s Odyssey 7 3 1 1 $704,860 5. Banner Bob 11 6 3 1 $415,851 6. Irish Sur 12 4 2 4 $582,795 7. Tank’s Prospect 9 3 2 2 $582,795 8. Clever Allemont 6 6 0 0 $164,096 9. Do It Again Dan 15 3 2 6 $154,084 10. Stone White 7 3 1 1 $98,270

REMARKS: Although the furor continues over Saturday’s controversial Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, trainers of the first three horses in the race are considering traveling plans for their 3-year-olds on the route to the May 4 Kentucky Derby.

Chief’s Crown will be shipped to Keeneland, meaning he will miss the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 20. He finished first in the Flamingo by a length, but was disqualified to second by the stewards, who said he lugged out in the last 30 yards of the race and interfered with Proud Truth.

Chief’s Crown has three possible races in Kentucky -- at Keeneland, the Lexington Stakes April 16 and the Blue Grass April 26, and at Churchill Downs, the Derby Trial on April 28.

Proud Truth, moved up to first in the Flamingo as a result of the disqualification, will run next in the Wood or the Blue Grass. Stephan’s Odyssey, who ran a troubled third in the Flamingo, only a neck behind Proud Truth, will probably also go in the Wood.

Another probable Wood starter is Rhoman Rule, who won the March 16 Everglades Stakes at Hialeah in 1:47 4/5, three-fifths of a second faster than Chief’s Crown’s Flamingo time.

Horses not considered good enough to win against Florida’s big three hit the road Sunday and won -- Banner Bob taking the Jim Beam Stakes at Latonia and Violado winning the Louisiana Derby. Banner Bob used different tactics, coming from off the pace, to win the Jim Beam. The Times’ panel would like to see Violado against tougher competition before it considers him for the top 10.

Violado, who was turned down by a potential buyer a few weeks ago for a reported $140,000, won $112,000 in Louisiana.

Bill Shoemaker, who probably won’t have a mount in Saturday’s Santa Anita Derby and says he currently doesn’t have a Kentucky Derby prospect elsewhere, feels the California 3-year-olds are an ordinary crop. The 1 1/8-mile Santa Anita Derby shapes up as a nine-horse field, with Tank’s Prospect and Skywalker likely to get most of the betting attention. Two of the Santa Anita starters, Don’t Say Halo and Cosmotron, aren’t nominated to the Kentucky Derby.

Other prominent races for 3-year-olds this week are at a mile on Saturday, the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct and the Cherry Hill at Garden State Park.

A possible starter in the Cherry Hill is Mom’s Command, one of only 11 fillies that were in a total of 359 horses nominated for the Kentucky Derby. If she starts, Mom’s Command will be ridden by Abigail Fuller, whose father Peter owns the horse.

Fuller also owned Dancer’s Image, who finished first in the ’68 Derby but had an illegal medication in his system and was disqualified in favor of Forward Pass. Fuller unsuccessfully fought the decision for almost four years in the courts and his friends say that time has washed away most of the bitterness. Now he has the dream of going back to the Derby with two fillies--the horse and a daughter who was an 8-year-old in the ’68 winner’s circle picture.

Advisory panel for The Times’ Triple Crown Ratings: Lenny Hale, racing secretary at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga; Frank (Jimmy) Kilroe, vice president for racing at Santa Anita; and Tommy Trotter, director of racing at Arlington Park and racing secretary at Gulfstream Park.