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RAIN INTERRUPTS LOUISVILLE TRAINING. Waldo Gets Slow Exercise Over Muddy Track and Will Get Fast Work When Tiack Improves. Louisville. Ky.. May ::. — Heavy rain that fell early this morning made the track at Churchill Downs very slushy and caused Secretary Davis to put up the •dogs." So the horses that worked on the big track were compelled to take the middle of the course. Waldo, the Derby favorite, cantered two slow miles around the inside track and was put away for the day. It is likely he will he given a short work of about a half mile tomorrow and if the track is gifod Thursday he will once more be sent the Derby route. Trainer Colston told an intimate friend thitt lie would work the great colt a mile and a quarter as soon as the course gets good and not before. The only Derby candidate to do any sharp work today was .1. K. Wainwrights Gallant Iirate. which was the cause of trainer Fred Luzadcr coming I mm Lexington to superintend the work. He went a mile and an eighth in 2: »4j!. covering the first mile in 1:49 and in the last eighth his trainer was slowing him down. Considering the condition of the track it was a good performance and both owner and trainer think that If the going is soft on Derby Day. this son of Pirate of Penzance will be a contender. Kugepe Ltttz arrived from Pensacola with six horses and Mike McDonald came from the same place with three. Another arrival was A. Harrison from Oakland. Cal.. with three horses. Todays trials were over a slopi y track and were as follows: Albeit Wolf— Half mile in .".4. Avaria — Seven-eighths in 1:41. Kreviti — Seven-eighths iu 1 :.IS. , Chief Hayes — Seven-eighths in 1:30. Cloisteress — Seven-eighths in 1 :M. Dora ute — Three-quarters in 1 :27. Dr. Waldo Briggs— Half mile iu ofij. Falling Feet — Half mile in 50. Gallant Pirate— Mile and an eighth in 2:04?: first mile in 1:49. Huckster— Three-eighths in :tS. I.aveno — Thrcc-iinarters In 1 :27. Mary Bodine— Three-eighths in .*i9. Red Hussar — Mile in 1 :." . S|Mjonor — Three-quarters in 1:22?. Grover Hughes has applied to Secretary Lyman II. Davis for stalls for five horses tluit he will ship here from Lexington In-fore the spring meeting there closes. All five are two-year-olds save Milton B.. the crack three year-. Id that is being trained in the Hughes stable for C. D. Chenault. the owner of the speedy son of Claude. Milton B. is spoken of us a sure starter in the inaugural dash, which ofm the program on Derby Day at Churchill Downs, and in which among other probable starters are Jeff Hernstein. Crystal Maid. Elleu-a-Dale. Colloquy and T. M. Green. Secretary Davis expects to make the race an attractive sidelight to the Derby. The four two-year-olds Mr. Hughes will race here are: Ben Brash II.. b. c. by Gallantry — Susie Brush: Mr. Dock. ch. c, by Handspring — Rachel Allison: Little Maggie, ch. f. bv Nasturtium — Devotee, and Phyllis E.. b. f. by Requital— Naught. * W. A. Hughes Oaks candidate. La ■Toupee, is training nicely for Lee Christy at Churchill Dowus. Christy is closely noting the work of Foursome. Cellaret and Zoola. George J. Longs trio of entries in the Oaks, as he has a great respect this year for the fillies trainer Pete Coyne has under his care. Christy-was with F. It. Harper when he won the Oaks as far hack as ISTli with Necy Hale, and lie was with Kd Corrigun when that veteran turfman won the event with Lenico iu 1903.
