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HORSES AT UBXINGTOX For the first time in over two months the trainers t at the Kentucky Association course at Loxjngton 1 last Wedneiday were able to use the track and the A way they sent their charges along was a caution Of course no real fast work was done but the pipe openers wore stiff ones and in about a week some real fast quarters will bo done doneThere There are now between 250 and 300 horses at the j track and there is very little sickness among them Of the older brigade there are but a small number of real cracks but the barns are full of useful j bread winning platers Time was when this old track was the training ground for nearly all the Kentucky and American Derby candidates in the spring but things have changed Nowadays the j horses for the big Derbys are raced into condition j in the south and southwest southwestAt At the track however there are four or five three yearold colts that are Derby aspirants Jack Bak ¬ er trainer for Baker Gentry has a pair to draw to South Trimble the wellknown twoyearold per ¬ former and J W Rhodes the untried halfbrother of Lieutenant Gibson John Rodegap of Spokane fame has Inventor in his string while Jim Baker is handlfngThe Common a sonof The Commonerl All three are in good shape but their trainers are not boasting like some others of what they are go ¬ ing to win None will start until the Latonia Der ¬ by and that gives the trainers sufficient time to properly prepare them themla la the twoyearold line a person has to do some gnessing and base the guessing on yearling work The trainers have not had a chance to set them down as twoyearolds There are lots of good looking ones and well bred too but their real class will not be known for a week or so There are a number which are labeled for sale and all kinds of sensational moves may bo looked for from the pen of news fakirs fakirsOne One of the harbingers of returning spring in Lex ¬ ington is the appearance in the show windows of wellknown tailoring firms of jockey colors and these aets of colors are gazed at by hundreds of the passing throng A few years ago this firm made an average each year of a hundred sets but for the last two years or rather since racing was abandoned in Lexington the average has been about forty sets a year The jackets and caps are made of satin and silks and sell for 15 per set A number of wellknown trainers and turfmen however have their colors made by their families St Louis Republic
