"I think Brevity will win the Derby," growled Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, four-time Kentucky Derby winner, watching his two entries finish a disappointing workout at Churchill Downs one day last week. Thousands of other people thought so too. In the Florida Derby last March, Joseph E. Widener's bay colt of doubtful paternity* had equaled the world record for a mile and a furlong. Of the six races Brevity had entered, he had won five. With a winter's training in Florida behind him, the handsome three-year-old was in perfect trim.
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