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GOSSIP FROM KENTUCKY TRAINING GROUNDS GROUNDSIxiulsvllle Ixiulsvllle Ky March 8 Of the twentynine en ¬ tries that were qualified for the Kentucky Derby by the second payment of 0 nine are already quar ¬ tered at Churchill Downs They are Waldo Captain Morris Helluf Don Antonio Charles F Grainger The Fad Fighting Bob Topland and Gallant Pirate As Waldo will not race before the running of the big race the crack twoyearold of 1909 will face the barrier in the Derby with 117 pounds up he getting the allowance of five pounds given nonwin ners of a threeyearold race of the value of 1500 The last four winners of the race Sir Huoii Pink Star Stono Street and Wltitergreen won with 117 pounds up Agile in IDOii carried 122 pounds to victory but in the nine previous races colts weighted at 117 pounds won The weights were first raised to 122 pounds when Kingman won the race in 1891 Aristides the first winner in 1875 carried 100 pounds and the scale of weights re ¬ mained exceedingly low until 18S4 18S4J J B Respess string of twelve horses that raced all winter at Juarez Mex and J C Ferriss stable of horses from the same place arrived at Churchill Downs last night and are now quartered at that track Ferriss brought his good tilly Delf and Ed Alveys two horses Piukola and Colonel Bob and they as well as the Respess collection all shipped well A L Kirby trainer of the Respess stable did not come with the horses having stopped on the way at San Antonio to spend couple of weeks with relatives Until he arrives here Frank Res pess who has the other branch of this big stable m charge will look after all the horses TJieir arrival swellg the strength ° tle Itesiiess stable in training here to thirtyone head headJohn John Mnrklein has brought Pal and Bean Brummel in from the farm and now has these two selling platers In training quarters at Churchill Downs Pal was fired at Latonla last fall and Is rather thin In flesh but Beau Brummel looks unusually good and will undoubtedly do a lot of good racing this year Markloln has rounded W A Leach around ulcoly and lie Hhows no effects at present of a mishap that befoll him in his luxt race at Juarez Upon that occasion he threw a plate and strained himself rather seriously he being a horse that an accident of that sort strangely affects The Cincin ¬ nati trainers good maro Lady Esther and The Koynl Prince are the two horses la his l arn that are In the pink of condition Said he yesterday yesterdayI I won five races at Juarez with Lady Esther and should have won eight with good racing luck She is ns nice a door as I over trained Marklcln is in love with Mexico as a winter racing ground I will be there next winter he declares and I am going to start right In and studv the Spanish language so that I can he ns accomplished and polite as the fine people I met there The senors and senorltas of that country can teach the world In politeiiesH I think It Is tliu most healthy country for horses I ever saw but I want to take my own oats and liny there next ylnter We have got them beat In such products One thing only was I dis ai MInted In in that country and that was o ac ¬ count of what I had heard alioitt the silvery Hio Grande in song and story I imagined it would give tlie Mississippi and the Andes a close run for the money Take a look M Beargrass Creek and you have seen the Rio Grande as 1 saw it itTrainer Trainer Pete Covne had an addition to his string in the fiveyearold chestnut horse Maclas by Fal ¬ setto Serilla MaciaH has been running out for over a year at Bashford Manor Farm and his owner George J Ixmg thinks he will now train sound One of his last good races was In tlui fall of his threeyearold form when he ran a good third at Lexington to The Minks and Old Honesty boating out Kings Daughter Lady Baldur also barely beat him In a wellrun mile at that meeting and if lie comes back to the races tills year as good as he tlicn was ho will win purses for the Long stable He Is rugged looking at present but Is In nice flesh and In good condition to go Into training trainingFred Fred Luzader after getting the J It Wainwright horses comfortably quartered at Churchill Downs after their long trln from Mexico made a trip to Latonla to visit his family upon returning from which In will beiiu spring training in earnest Hie buying of Gallant Pirate bv J R Wainwrlght from W J Young leaves tlie latter trainer without a Kentucky Derby candidate In his string at Douglas Park Luzader thinks he ban a nice colt In Gallant Pirate and will give the son of Pirate of Penzance n careful preparation for the big race He looks for Dr Waldo Brlzss to Improve as he takes on ago and believes distance will ultimately cut no figure with the Mlssouribrrd horse Al Muller Is also looking good and Kliows no signs of lumenoss at present presentThe The declaration of Topland and The Fad from tlie Suburban Handicap Is taken as an Indication tlit C C Van Meter will attempt no easteri 1 luvas vasloii lon tills year until after 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