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BUSY TIMES AT LOUISVILLE CETOCHILL DOWNS TBAINEBS NOW GIVING THEIH HOESES FAST WOEK The Fad and Toplaad C C Van Meters Kentucky Derby Candidates Go Mile in 1441 and 145 Eespcctivcly Louisville Ky March 25 Trainer C C Van Meter was again in tlio limelight yesterday with his Iwo Kentucky Derby candidates The Fail ami Top land lie permitted each to go a mile ami an eighth pulling up sifter they hail been rated for a mile The Fad went his mile in 111J ami went on a mile and an eighth in 15J while Topland Worked a mile in 145 and ran the full distance in l5t Both did their work well in hand and pulled up fresh sound and strong Van Meter i ut the fast work into them because he thought a rain might come He is sure to have them in condition for the lilg race and in fact sis far as forward prep ¬ aration goes they are litter rigiit now for the liig race than any Derby candidates in training at the local tracks tracksA A speedy lilt of work yesterday was accomplished by Domineer a maiden threeyearold that Peter Coyne has in George 1 Longs stable He sent the son of Alvescot tureccighths In US This colt is si halfbrother to 1alamou and as a yearling worked a Muarter In 2 and then went wrong A wrongA new Kentucky Derby candidate loomed up at Churchill Downs yesterday when for the lirst time trainer Walter S Hopkins worked the bay colt Charles F Grainger threequarters in 121 under double wraps He went the rirst eighth in ii th quarter in Ml threeeighths in half in SI and liveeighths in 105 The colt is a good looker and is considered best of the maidens tliat are eligible to the big race raceCharles Charles F Grainger named out of compliment to the president of tne New Louisville Jockey Club fs owned by A V Oldham who for several seasons successfully raced the good horse Colonel Jim Doug ¬ las He is as well bred as any of the Derby candi ¬ dates his sire Meltoniau Ixnig by the English a daughter of llernience sire of the sensational Hennis Tolm Kodegap the veteran Lexington trainer handled Charles F Grninger for Mr Oldham last soason liut only started the colt once at the Iac end of the Latonia fall meeting and though he finished outside tl vould run fast by bya a slow track The colt gets lu tlie Derby with the full twelvepounds maiden allowance Leonatus is the only winner of the Kentucky Derby that failed to twoyearoldThe win as a twoyearold The best twoyearold work yesterday was a quar ¬ ter in 24s by the Broomxtick Sue Smith colt in thu stable with Waldo and one of the best lookers Jit Churchill Downs Trainer Colston is giving this iojiigster a careful preparation as if all goes well with him he Is to be C L Harrisons color bearer in the Great Trial TrialOne One workout that considerably interested horse ¬ men was that of the 1 3 Kentucky Derby winner Wintergreen from the Rcspcss stable as he is one of the most talkcdabout Clark Handicap candidates in traiuin traiuinmile mile but this he did with ease in 52 and pulled up as sound as a bell He looks lusty and strong this season and has grown into a linelooking fouryear old oldTrainer Trainer John Fcrrlss received five fresh horses from Tennessee and his string at Churchill Downs nov numbers fourteen head Two of the new ones he owns himself one being a threeyearold maiden colt by The Commoner and the other a twoyear old chestnut colt by King Hanover out of the good race mare Lady of the West by Chorister This youngster a Bashfurd Manor Stakes eligible he has nnuiod Western Itoy The other three are owned bv J G Greener the turfman for whom he trained the Latonia Derby winner Olauihala last season They are all twoyearolds by My Hoy II One is a chest ¬ nut filly out of Olefiaut by Grnus another is a lirown filly out of Owscl a sister to Oleliant and thu other is a brown IHIy out of Oeanya a sister to the good race horse Osewm The nick of this trio will be a starter in the Debutante Stakes StakesSecretary Secretary Lyman II Davis notilied owners yes ¬ terday that there would be no charge for stall rent it Churchill Downs from April 1 until thu coming spring meeting is ended endedW W F Schulte lias returned from New York It Js his intention to ship his string east the last week In April and liegln his 1 10 racing campaign at Belmout Park None of his horses will do much racing before June though trainer Irooks has them nil In fine sha e ami could get some of them ready for racing at an earlier date Yesterday King Olym ¬ pian his promising threeyearold was sent his first mile and be went the distance cantering twothirds of the way in l5j Mr Schnlte says that horse ¬ men In the east are not looking for the bills aimed iigainst oral letting to be treated seriously at Albany this year They aro going along at all the eastern tracks with the expectation of having the most sne ccssufl racing season since the repeal of the Percy Grav law Trainer Arthur Chapman has reached Churchill Downs from Tampa Fla with the twoyearold chestnut colt Clysmic Water 113 Peering out of Mary W by Voltlgeur This youngster is owned by 1C Weil a Chicago turfman who was at Church Ill Downs yesterday to inspect the colt Weil rr rlred from Farmlngdale III where he went to pur ¬ chase of A 1 Watts two yearlings by the sire of Clysmlc Water One is a chestnut filly from Clevel ¬ and the other a bay filly out of Lady Fitzsinunons the dam of Mallble He found that Watts had sold Gretcheu It by Politico and her yearling chestnut fllly to A C Quisenberry of Lincoln III and that the latter had resold her a few days ago agoJockey Jockey J Mclntyre has arrived from the south and will busy himself in exercising for trainers at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park Mclntyre ox jiects to ride as a free lance this season on the Ken ¬ tucky and Canadian tracks tracksGeorge George Archibald the San Francisco rider who is tinder contract to Garrity Dunlap the Pacific oast turfmen will arrive next week at Churchill Downs to get in condition for the campaign of that stabl j in the middle west and on the metropolitan courses Archibald is likely to rank as the premier rider of the twentythreedays meeting which opens here on May 10 Archibald like his employers is silxiut to invade the east for the lirst time He is favorably known on the coast tracks and during the winter meeting at Juarez Mcx he piloted the horses of Garritv Dunlap with fair success though his showing did not equal his previous work on the coast because of a mishap In which he sustained a crushed foot footC C C Van Meter whose horses are training In fine hipe at the Downs will continue to ride the black veteran Dale Austin on his racers Austin has returned to form his employer says Kennedy ind II Jones will rid1 at the Downs for J It Wainwright and Fred Lnzader Eddie Martin will tillot J B Rcspess horses and A Walsh will ride for W G Yaiike
