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FIGHTING BOB IS TRAINING WELL. Wcrk of George Rcifs Derby Eligible Impresses Trainers at Churchill Downs — Waldo Doing Nicely. LaassrBle. Ky.. April 0. — Although the track at Churchill Baaraa was still slow and few of the ! trainers at the track are*? willing to take a chance with their charges. Fighting Bob went three eight be I impressively Thursday, and as lie was led back to i his barn more than one horseman was heard to i reasarl that the son of Knight id FUcrslh — 1-udy Ciccnslecvcs was going to lie a hard horse to beat in the Derby in the event that he eoutinues to train i well. Ihe chestnut colt awaked three eighths in .".s. lighling for his brad Trainer ;ass was highly impressed with the work of his charge. He did not cxiiect that Fighting Bab would IK" able to work so fast with track conditions as they were. He • was all smiles when tin- colt went back to his barn i and cooled out ate ly. Waldo was asked to go a mile, which he did in I handy fashion. He was accon.panicil by Dei I J Maid, . from the Forsythe barn, and the manner in which i bath accomplished their work impressed the onlookers. - The son of Ilanuiles circled the course in 1:48|. . lighting for his head at all stages. Berry Maid will I be ready when the races start. Ualeigh Vlston. the ■ colored trainer aha is handling Waldo for C. I.. Harrison, was an interested onlooker while Fighting ! Bab was traveling over the oiurse like a bullet from i a Mauser. He seemed to think that the move was a I goixl one. but stat d that Waldo could do just as I well if given his head. Colston is sweet on the • Ilaiiudes salt ami does not think that anything will 1 press him in the Derby. Some of the trainers at the 1 Downs are of the astasia that Waldo will not be ready on May lo for a bruising race. They seem to think that beesaac he is by long odds the most rateable - piece sf horseflesh engaged in the race that bis trainer will not bustle him along as lie would 1 were he U ordinary thoroughbred. Colston is delighted ■ because the son of Flanudes is not coughing. . lie laughs at the theory that he will "baby" the bay olt. "I will give him all the work he needs." said 1 the colored trainer. "He will lie as fit as a fiddle t when the big race is run and will saow everyone that t be can travel over a route. Some lay that he wont t last over seven-eighths. You take it from me that t he can heat -everything eligible to start against him i Inmi one jump to four miles or swimming the river r if necessary." apt. Jim Williams, who is quartered at Douglas s Iark. had three of Irs juveniles out for exercise B and they took to their work like veterans. Sweet t Owen aiid County Tax were asked to go three-eighths s and covered the distance in 40. Governor Gray was R asked to go a half mile. He had plenty of weight t np and covered the distance in M. Trainer Hick Brooks gave Gliding Belle her final Work be fare the sblnmeBt of the Scnulte stable cast. The filly went a mile in 1:54, no fast work being attempted. Great things are expected of the Schulte l" horses this season. King Olympian, which was a 1 fair two-year-old. has grown wonderfully and is ex-In " cted to show tine performances as a three-year-old. " Then Mr. Schulte also has Zietwip in his string. This mare lias never failed to earn brackets in the e Past, and will doubtless again make good. The " Schulte horses are on their way ast. Joint I.. Morris, who trained Azra for George Long ~ when he won the Kentucky Derby in 18ML and who • two years later won the Kentucky Oaks with Zelika. was at the track yesterday. The veteran trainer r now coiiditcts a breeding farm in Woodford County. This aeaaaa he says six thoroughbred foils have lieen ■ dropped at his place. Two are by Cesarlon. but tiny are not out of his own mares, lioth their dams s lieiiig owned by John Welch, of Spring Station, • hie is a cheslnut colt out of Marshetta and the • other out of Mary Agnes, dam of Louise S. The others are: mart colt, by Charcot— Toddy Smith. Bay Bait, by Sampson — Fair Fortune. Chestnut colt, by Sampson— May Bird. J. 0L Calm, who raced six horses for Barney v Schreibcr at Juarez last winter and ItatBtly brought it l !iem here, is developing several horses bred and d raised by himself at ua Mlsseasi stock farm. They y are seven in numlier and. odd to note, arc maiden I three year olds. Not one ever ■parted colors. Six of the lot are by the F.:iglish-bred son of Itoval II Hampton-Bitter Root, and the other is by the Cali-I i- fornia sire. Counter Tenor. They are all out of if noted raea mates. .
