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KENTUCKY TRAINING GOSSIP. Derby Candidates. Topland and The Fad. to Get Some Relaxation From Their Training. Louisville. Ky.. April 1. — Kentucky Perl.y eandi dates and ether horses in traiiiim; at Churchill Pea a* ami Daaglaa Park did little work reaterday iiiu.-h faster than a two-minute clip. Trainer !nss intended to work Ffghtlag aWh, hat ewtag io the heavv dust that covers the course, lie postponed the work-out of the aaa of Knijrhi of Fllerslic until Saturdav. hv which time In iiopes thai rain will settle the track. He let Malthas work a hall in 52. A iiumlier oi the Imrses in tralalag at Charchill I .owns are muifhiii?. and some of the trainers think the heavy dust lias caused the throat troiihh- at present so prevalent there. Trainer C. C. Van Meter is one of the horsemen who is areaaiiag !• lake lime hy the loreloek. and yesterday be decided to give his horses a weeka lay-olf. He thinks his I wo Herhy candidates. Ti.phind and Tlie Fad. arc lar eaaagh adraared in their preparation to rest for a week, as he will then have fully thirty live days to lit them for the big race. Trainer Brouka is hustling ahmg one liorse in the Schulto st rinir. This is tindfatg Belle, which came hack yesterday after a mile work .ait of Monday and circled the course in 1 :."i0. . Jidin Ferriss has worked winders in the appearance or F.d Alveys ..".«HI four yeav-ohl. Plata* Harry. since the son of Orlando joined the Tennessee irain.rV slahle at Churchill Fowns. The half hrotlnr to Pink Coat aeeaaa to lawraae every day and is roiiudiny hack to the form he showed when Alvey purchased him. Ferriss had a little iroiilde arith Friend Harrys Peels, hat tin- soreness ha-yieldeil to treatment. The trainer of Olanil.ala is sweet on a two year old he himsel! owns by Kiag Hanover, out of I.ily of the West, ami thinks he has in him another Prince Ahmed. He Mjra F. S. Cardner is still in the hrecdins husiness at Avondale Farm with a small land of hroiduiares and the stallions. Klag Ilanovil and Mase.to. Tie latter horse is still in slud ac tivity. hut is rrowlag old. Cardner is now eagaged in the frrain elevator and general store husiness at Callatin. Ienn. He has raced no horses since he sold Charlie Baataiaa and Charlie Qilbert. Gardaer owned Himvar when the sire of the Btlghtj Doaaia* died. Trainer Pete Coyne said yesterday that he had heard from Paahfard Manor Farm that Sir Iluon. George J. Laag!* Keataekjr Herhy winner of laag. was recently pat on tin- scales and weighed 1.2S» pounds. There ale live yearlinys. b| tliis omi son of Falsetto at Baahford Manor and this season tlie banc will have a nice lot of foals, as he was mated with some ihuI u.ares in ItHiil. I-e Christv has engaged slahle room at Poagla* Park for the Teuaeaaee stahle of W. A. Haghea, now in training at the Fletcher farm in that state. Ihe horses of the dead hanker went under the hammer recently, hut the lot the colored Iraine.-will hrlag here were no! sold. In the collection are Mrs. Bewail. Star Venus and I.a Toujie •. Tlie latter is eligible to start in the Kentucky Oaks.
