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TAPLIN TO RIDE MICHAEL ANGELO. I-ouisville. Ky.. April :. ».- -John Walters, who trains for George Hendrie. lias engaged jockey Tap-1 i ii to ride Michael Angelo in the Derby. Tapliu weighs ninety-two pounds and is in splendid cniiiii-tion. He aaja that tie expects to bad all other riders here just as lie did on the coast. This bay will ride all of H. O. BcdwoUs horses here and tie Colorado man has by far the forennt-t stable here. It consists of Don Enrique. Ace of Diamonds. Fire-Imll. Gypsy King. Keep Moving. Little Kiss. Mad mini. Nadzu. PaJaroita. silver stocking. Tony Faust, Tom Ilayward. J. . ore and Kleiner Vogcl. BcdwcH probably will make no entries for the first three days or the meeting. The stable had I hard trip from California, being delayed twelve hours en route. However, all shipped well. Tim Murphy, who resides at Danville. Ky.. and who has the distinction of bavins witnessed every oik of the thirtv-four Kentucky Derbys. is coming Monday to see. as he thinks, lis last Derby. His health in his seventy-second year is falling, and hi feels that he will bo under the turf when the next one is decided. Murphy belongs to the old guard of horsemen. His best horse was Kgbart. Colonel M. J. Winn said tonight that if Monday is a favorable day he expects to see the greatest crowd at Churchill Downs that has ever witnessed the Derby. II. ■ says that notables from New York. Chicago. Cincinnati. Lexington. Nashville. Memphis and New Orleans will be ill attendance. As for Kentucky, he savs the best people in the state will be present. While the Derby always attracts society, he says this element will be more prominent than ever this time. Honest, a shifty plater, which Pat Dunne bought from Milton Young, died this evening of catarrhal fever, contracted while being shipped here from Oakland. A majority of the Derby horses will be given a ld|ie opener Sunday morning, by which time, if it does aot rain, it will be as fast as it is possible for it to be. The local forecaster cast a ray of stin--hine into the office of the jockey club this afternoon by issuing a prediction that the weather will be fair on Derby day. which means that the track will be lightning fast. Secretary Davis has received eight entries for the Gentle a I Cap, which will be decided Tuesday. May is.
