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THE HORSES AT LOUISVILLE. Mondays Courier-Journal says of the horses now in training there: "Considerable gossip is always, floating around the track about the Kentucky Derby candidates. As far as looks go Desperado is the handsomest of the quartet now stabled there. His Lordship does not impress one in appearance. Ways and Means, his stable companion in Mrs. McClellands stable, certainly outlooks His Lordship. The latter looks a little thin and drawn as compared with Ways and Moans, who, of course, is not a Derby horse. Of Mazo and Hapsburg very little is said.because Madden, with characteristic secrecy, allows the outside world to learn very little of his business. "John Morris, trainer of the Basbford Manor string, has got a hustle on him for once, and ho is stepping em to town. In years gone by Morris would criticise other trainerB for hard work early in the season, but from the indications he has come around to the other method. No horses at Churchill Downs are being breezed harder than his are. "The veteran trainer, Jim Murphy, of Lexington, has a three-year-old by Candlemas at the track which looks well and of which Murphy expects great thingB. He also has several two-year olds, the property of Clay and Woodford, which have stepped quarters in :24. Mr. C. Woodford was here last week to look over the bunch and he was much pleased with their appearance. "Mrs. James E. Peppers youngsters in Gene Leighs stable are good lookers, and if Leigh does not develop a few stake winners from the bunch somebody will be surprised. "Among the Oaks fillies quartered at Churchill Downs Spirituelle and Bush, Tom McDowells pair, attract the most attention. Some of the so-called turf critics out there shrug their shonlders and look wise when May Hempsteads name is mentioned, and say something about "sprinting" and "going a distance," but be that as it may Gene Leigh is getting May Hempstead in mighty fine shape, and the chances are that she will be hard to catch when the Kentucky Oaks is run. Besides, May Hempstead, according to Mr. Leigh, is going to be a starter in the Tennessee Oaks. This means that the daughter of Patron Lillie Hempstead will be favorite in that event. "Admiration, that brown filly by Kingston, out of that good old race mare Hypocrite, is certain to be a starter in the Oaks. She looks fine and is working well. A peculiar fact connected with Admiration and May Hempstead is that Mr. Headloy owns Hempstead, while Admiration belongs to Mr. Norton. Norton and fieadley, as a firm, own Ornament and others, but each has a filly, both of which are practically certain to start in the Oaks. "President Schulte, of the New Louisville Jockey Club, is out at the track everj day, and he is popular with all the trainers there. He has the best stable in his turf career. Rolla Colston, his trainer, has the stable in good trim. Every horse in the string looks well and each is taking work nicely. "Ben Holladay, the favorite in the big Brooklyn Handicap, is the cynosure of all eyes at the track. He looks big and strong, and is going like great guns. "Something seems to bo the matter with Souchon in Brown Dicks stable. She does not seem to have grown much or Bpread since last year, but Dick will probably pull her around all right before the local meeting begins. Dick has a couple of fillies, a bay and brown, which are showing halves in 0:52, and apparently easy at that."
