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PROGRAM FOR DERBY DAY BIG EVENT OF LOUISVILLE OPENING WILL HAVE A SUITABLE SETTING. Total Distribution for Day Will Amount to ,100, With Inaugural Scramble and a Race for Two-Year-Olds as Secondary Features. Louisville. Ky., April 24. The program for Derby day, which is the opening date of the thirty-seventh annual spring meeting of the Xew Louisville Jockey Club, has been announced by Edward Jasper, acting secretary. It provides for a total distribution of 1911.sh,100, the largest sum ever given by" any organization for :t single day of racing in Kentucky. It is as follows: First Kuce Three-quarters, selling, for three-year-olds and upward; 1911.sh00 added. Second Race Half mile, for two-year-old lillies; 1911.sh00 added. Third Race Five and a half furlongs, for three-year-olds and upward; added. Fourth Race Kentucky Derby, one mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds; value 1911.sh,000. Fifth Race Four and a half furlongs, for two-year-old colts; 00 added. .Sixth Kuce One mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds and upward; 00 added. A feature of the initial day. aside from the Derby, is the third race, which is, in reality, the 3011 renewal of the race popularly known as the Inaugural Scramble. The field in this race this spring will embrace a band of dazzling sprinters, iucludiug Trance, Follie Levy, Ocean Bound. Enfield, Ive White. Angelus, Quartermaster and Mclisande. This race was won last season by Kings Daughter, and in 100. Crystal .Maid was the winner, Since the reorganization of the New Louisville Jockey Club this race has always been featured on the opening day. It is a race that never has been won by an indifferent performer. It was lirst run in 190 and the winner was Harry Keed, fresh from his triumphs on the English turf. He was a stable companion of Den Brush, which won the Kentucky Derby on the. same day. The Derby and the Inaugural Scramble are not Jbe only features for the opening day. The fifth race will be one of some importance. There arc at the two local tracks not less than 100 two-year-olds. Some of the- starters in this race will be Cash on Delivery. Upright, Charley Drown, Closer, Millo, WOol t ex, Little Dutch. Joe Knight and Sherlock Holmes. Colston was the only Derby eligible called upon yesterday to show speed in a trial. He went a mile in a two-minute gait. The dockers only look his last half mile, which he cantered in 54. Trainers of the Derby candidates generally observed Sunday by resting their charges. The only other Derby eligible out was Kouud the World, the favorite, which lilly galloped a mile and a half upon the inside course. The sparkling work of the morning was by C. C. Van Meters two-year-olds. Kobert. Tourist and Dilatory. Robert and Tourist worked together a half in 401, koiug the first three-eighths in 30J, while Dilatory was paced by Irincess Industry, a three-year-old filly, and duplicated the time of Robert and Tourist. No two-year-olds have surpassed tills performance in trials this season. Other good workouts yesterday included the following: The Iippiu Three-quarters in 1:19, cantering. Is good. Cash on Delivery Three-eighths in 37. This is a high-class colt. Maxims lride Half mile in 52, cantering. Mineo Jimmie Three-eighths in 30; first quarter in 23;. White Wool Quarter in 24. Looks good and is fast. Tilford Thomas Half mile in 49: first quarter in 24;; three-eighths in 30. Has plenty of speed. Spiudltt Seven eighths in 1:33.; first quarter in 25;: three-eighths in 3S1; half mile in 515; lire-eighths in 1:00: three-quarters in 1:20. Will be sent to Lexington. Night Dross Three-eighths in SO. A likely filly. Roberta Three-eighths In 37;, breezing. Has all of her Juarez speed. Frank C. Hogan Quarter in 21. Seems lit. Del Crtizador Three-eighths in 37;. King Droonistiek Quarter in 24, cantering. A. D. Spreckels string of horses now at Churchill Downs Is in charge of trainer William Carroll, a Kcutuekiun. This is the first time in twenty years that Mr. Carroll has been in the state. George W. Kerry is here with trainer Carroll and acts as agent and manager of the stable. Mr. Spreckels leaves the training and running of his horses with Messrs. Carroll and Kerry, and only comes to the track to see the horses race. Collectively the Spreckels stable contains the best-looking two-year-olds seen at the Downs since the seasons when John K. Madden had in his barn here the Futurity winners, Yankee and Rallyhoo Bey. and the two great kindergarten performers, Kluo Girl and Irish Lad. In tlie proposed endurance race, to be run this fall. Charles F. Grainger, now owned by Joseph E. Widener of 1Iiiladclphia will be a starter. Mr. Widener lias had this horse schooled for timber-topping and be expects him to become a great steeplechaser and hurdle horse. W. H. Shelley, secretary of the Lexington meeting, was here yesterday making final arrangements for the shipment of horses to Lexington. Moat of the racers will be sent Thursday and Friday. Colston, a Derby eligible, worked the Derby route of one mile and a quarter this morning in 2:11. He went the first quarter in 24. the half in 50. five-eighths in. 1:021. three-quarters in 1:155, seven-oighths in 1:20. the mile in l:43i and the mile and an eighth in 3:50. So pleased was his trainer that lie announced that he would not send him to Lexington to run in the Camden Handicap, as should he win that race he would lose his twelve Kunds maiden allowance in the Derby. Kouud the World, the Derby favorite, was sent a half mile in 53J. The first quarter was run in 24; and three-eighths in .5S. She worked as if she has all of her phenomenal speed. Round the World is absolutely lit. George J. Longs Exemplar went three-eighths in ."S-. These were the only three Derby candidates that worked faster than a two-minute clip today save Colonel Hogan. He went three-quarters in l:20j. Among the two-year-olds the star work of the morning was by Floral Day. from the stable of W. i II. Fixer. Paced by Plutocrat, a three-year-old. she ran a half mile in 4SA. going the lirst quarter in 241 and three-eighths in .,Gh She is a half-sister to "the Kentucky Oaks winner, Floreal. Mr. Fizcr is training her for her breeder, Fletcher Driver. Tins fastest performance of the morning was bv William E. Phillips recent purchase, Topland. He worked three-quarters in 1:15. the fraetionals being: 32, 24. :;7J. 49J, 1:03. Other good work-outs were as follows: Maezie Threo-qnarlers in 1:21. cantering. Trance Quarter mile in 21. Kit and fast. Roberta Seven-eighths in 1:325, pulling up. Has her sliced and is ready. Follie Levy Five-eighths in 1:0S. Never looked better. Sebago Half mile in 40J. In pink of condition. Sigurd Three-quarters in 1:1S; lirst half in 50;, easilv. Showing improvement. Johnny Pitts Half mile in 49J. A likely two-year-old. John Louis Half mile in 5!J, cantering. Looks good. Polly Pucelle Half mile in 49;. Louis Katz Five-eighths in 1:00; ; Hirst half in 52. easily. Is good. Ed Morgan Five-eighths in 1:04;; first half mile in 51;, handily. Fit and ready. Ben Lasca Three-quarters in 1:23, cantering. Is good. Upright Half mile in 511. cantering. Mother Quarter in 23. Speedy and a good looker. Yvonne Half mile in 49. Better than when In Mexico. John Hall, who trained Stone Street, wiuner of the Kentucky Derby of 11HXS, dropped dead this afternoon at Douglas Park while about to adjust a bandage on the leg of one of his horses. Mr. Halls home was at Covington, Ky. He was forty years of age and married. .Meridian, R. F. Carmans Derby eligible, has arrived. He is regarded as a factor in the big race. Six horses owned by James McManus of California arrived today in charge of trainer Steve Judge. The string embraces the Derby candidates Star ORyan and Tay Pay: Rocky OBrien, winner of the Hopeful Stakes. Rosslare, Portarlington and Golden Agnes. With the McManus string came six horses in charge of O. A. Bianchi. They include the Derby candidate Doncaster, now owned jointly by Messrs. Bianchi and McManus; Presumption, George Oxnard, Ira Cazadora. Wild Fern and Silver Knight. Barney Schreiber arrived from Woodlands Farm and another arrival was Edward Corrigan from Tampa. His string of eight horses arrived tonight. Mr, Schreiber reports thai he has 10S yearlings on his farm, twenty-six of which are by Sain. Among them are brothers to Jack Atkin, Guy Fisher, Center Shot and Tom McGrath. There are haIfbrothers to Dr. Gardner, Al Muller and Little Scout. Among the horses Mr. Schreiber brought from his farm and turned over to trainer William Cahill are the Canadian Derby winner, Sager, and a two-year-old sister to Jack Atkin. G. W. Scott, the Dallas, Tex., turfman, has taken up his two well known racers, Martin W. Littleton and .1. II. Houghton, and if they continue to do well he will ship them to Kentucky the last of next month and race them a few times here and at La tonlii before taking his string to the Canadian circuit. Neither has raced since last fall. Secretary Lyman II. Davis will take no part in this springs meeting at Churchill Downs. II. F. Brievogcl has been summoned from Detroit by Manager M. J. Winn to assist Acting Secretary Edward Jasper. Manager Winn desires that the secretarys office at the Downs be opened as early as possible this year, and Mr. Jasper will be in .charge there, while Mr. Rrievogel will look aftor the city otlice of the New Louisville .Tockev Club. , , -
