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TRADITION MAY BE UPSET FILLY LOOMING AS LIKELY WINNER OF KENTUCKY DERBY AT LAST. Trainers, at Louisville Course Inclined to Bclicvo that Round tho World Will Prove Exception to Rulo of Past Runnings Training Gallops. Louisville, Ky., April tIT. As Derby lay approaches the conviction grows that tliis years victor Jit the chief event of the New Louisville Jockey Clubs spring meeting will be a racer of better class than in recent years. The present outlook is that it will bo a Derby that will carry with it great prestige to the winner. As good a judge as Henry -McDauiel said yesterday: "The winner this season will have to be not only .1 game horse, but a racer of phenomenal speed." Mr. McDauiel trained Key el Santa Anita when that colt won the American Derby. He knows the kind of a racer it takes to win a great Derby and he says that this is the sort uf a horse that will have to show up or a filly will at last win a Kentucky Derby on May 13. Another trainer said: "The impression that Round the World will not go the Derby route, one mile and a quarter, is hardly logical. The supposition comes from the fact that so many horses possessing, like her. a record-breaking turn of early sliced, have failed when it came to covering a greater distance than a mile. They have in mind horses like Ilose-lnjn and Dr. Hasbrouck and forget racers ef the Sy-onbv and Hcrmis type. She has all the characteristics of the latter type and many of the stars to which she is kin through her famous dam scored Iheir most brilliant turf triumphs when racing over a considerable distance of ground." Play or pay odds are quotcif in the future books on the Kentucky Derby as follows: Round the World. 2-1 Ramazau 25-1 Governor Gray .... 4-1 Labold 40-1 Meridian 5-1 Tay 1ay 25-1 Captain Carmody.. 0-1 Star Oltyau 25-1 Bell Horse 13-1 Sterlin 20-1 Beach Sand 13-1 Fez GO-1 St. Aloysius 50-1 Sir Dawn 100-1 Silver Brush ::0-l Iit a-Iat 50-1 Colston 25-1 Billiken 100-1 Jack Deunian 25-1 Mud Sill 00-1 Colouel Hogau 40-1 Lcsu .100-1 Idlcwelss 30-1 Tommy Twig 75:1. Exemplar. ...... .23.-1.. - The Dcrbf candidate. Colston, did the fastest work of any of the locallr trained eligibles at the Downs today. He was scut six furlongs in l:10j, pulled up. The fractional were: 23. 31 s, 1:033. He could liave worked faster "had his rider let him down. Noue of the other Dcrbv eligibles went faster than a two-minute gait. Mud Mill worked a slow mile with Pinkola. Of the two-year-olds the fastest work was by an Oddfellow lilly in the stable of Raleigh Colston. She worked three-eighths in 333, Jiud was cased up a half in 51. The first eighth was covered in lli and the quarter in 23J. She is a dashing filly and among the speediest here. Tho fastest work among the older horses was hy Inclement. He went three-quarters in 1:131, pulled up. The fraetionals were: 24, 30. 40J. 1:02. During the first part he was only cantering and lie could liave run much faster. Other work-outs were as follows: Barn Dance Half mile in 31, handily. Improving . daily. Charley Brown Three-eighths in 3GJ, quarter in 24. Looks good. Floral Day Quarter in 23. Her last work for the Breeders Futurity at Lexington. Has dazzling speed. Intrinsic Quarter in 20, cantering. Never better. T. H. Keed Half mile in 33j, cantering. Is improving. John Grittin II. Five-eighths in l:07j. Never looked better and has all his speed. Johnny Pitts Hair mile in 4!. Is a fair sort. King Olympian Mile in 1:49s- Fraetionals: 2G, 54. 1:07. 1:21. Good, looker and has speed, but quit badly. M. Cainbou Five-eighths in 1:07. Advanced in preparation. Will soon be lit. Sir. Bob Three-eighths in 3GB. A good colt in the K. L. Thomas stable. Polly Purcell Half mile in 402. Speedy and ready. Sebago Quarter in 23. Short Order Three-quarters in l:10j. First half in 40. Is ready. Sigurd Three-quarters in 1:17. First half in 50. Appears as good as his Juarez form suggests. Strike Out Half mile in 40 J. Is good. Toplaud Three-quarters in l:ltJ, first half in 10 J. Has improved and is lit. Xicuap Three-eighths in 40, cantering. This old mare is training nicely and looks well. .T. K. Wainwriglit, en route from French Lick to Lexington, inspected his racers at the Downs today and found theni in line condition; Four of them were shipped today to Lexington. Royal Captive was sent instead of Sigurd. Judge Charles F. Price. M. J. Winn, George Lin-denberger and II. F. Breivogel will attend the opening of the Lexington meeting. Charles F. Grainger, president of the New Louisville Jockey Club, left today fcr Pimlico. From there he will go to Toronto. Cnrroli B. Reid is here. He has no racers in training. Joseph McLellan, assistant secretary at Moncrief Park, is here from Jacksonville. W. H. Fizer shipped eight horses to Lexington, chielly two-year-olds. Mud Sill and Pinkola will remain at the Downs. George J. Longs, string of six horses have been shipped to Lexington. Peter Coyne is in charge. The three-year-olds Exemplar and Enyoe and the two-year-olds Fanchette, Bernice. Felix and Free Lance, make up the band. Mr. Long reiorts tho death of two of his noted broodmares. Ignite, daui of the Kentucky Derby winner, Sir Huoii, and La Gascogue, the dam of Arcite. The latter left a ruckling sister to Arcite. Ignite left a yearling filly by Sempronius. The speedy horse Sewell is training nicely for William Cahill and bids fair to be a useful racer during the coining spring meeting here.
