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KENTUCKY DERBY CANDIDATES AT WORK Louisville Ky February 24 In spite of the severe weather of the past ten days which has kept Churchill Dowiis and Douglas Park under snow training operations at the two big local racing plants have v no means been entirely suspended says the CourierJournal Trainers used to utilizing Kentucky tracks for winter quarters and spring training grounds have before stacked up against just such a pro osition as has confronted them this month and they always stand prepared to meet the emer luv Yesterday at the two tracks a visitor could couldiv iv had tin pleasure of seeing all the Derby candi ¬ dates in motion at close range as for hours the horses were trotted anil slowly cantered around the sheds of the various barns At hurthill Downs the old Kcpess barn on the south side of the track was i particularly busy place but both at that course and Douglas Iark all the partly covered structures were utilized in giving the horses slow work workAmong Among the Derby entries trotted and cantered over pathways of scattered straw and chaff were the favorite Waldo Fighting I5oh King Olympian Gallant 1irate Mesmeriier Captain Morris Relluf ind Don Antonio and all looked the perfect picture of health and winter training condition conditionThe The severe weather is no set hack of any moment lo the big hand of twoyearolds quartered here as all the trainers are going slow with their youngsters ami the exercise it is now possible to give them is all they at present really need And what a Mand lot of members of the kindergarten class of racing material they are the best seen here since tlie season when J U Madden was at the Downs with Blue Girl Acefull Skilful and other sons and slaughters of that remarkable sire Mirthful and T W Schorr came up the line with the famous Kndivrance by Hight Freedom from sickness of verv sort makes the twoyearolds in training here look extra good this winter and if spring opens early in Mnrch these youngsters will be ready to meet the seasoned twoyearolds that have been racing nt the winter tracks and give a good account of ofstVlIs stVlIs have been bedded at Churchill Downs for diaries Van Meters string which is due to arrive from Juarez Mexico This will increase tlie Derby candidates now here hy two as the former trot tin horse driver lias in his stable Tophind and The Fad both of Vhich are engaged in the Derby s Mr Van Meters two entries in the Derby are locallyowned horses their homecoming for final training for the race adds considerable interest to llielr prospective arrival and they will swell the entries now being trained here for the big race to no less than eleven head
