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- KENTUCKY ENDURANCE STAKES TO BE WORTH WHILE Louisville, Ky.. May 1. The decision of the Kentucky Slate Racing Commission to donate a ,000 gold cup to the winner of the promised four-mile Endurance Stakes insures the running of that race on one of the three Kentucky tracks this coming fall. It is more than likely that tin: event will be decided at Churchill Downs. Col. M. J. Winn of the New Louisville Jockey Club says he will add .".,000 to such a race, provided the entries represent the class to justify a purse of this value. Colonel Winn unquestionably would add 0,000 if the class should be there. The proposed race takes horsemen hack to the long ago. Years since a California Association club hung up $::o.Oi0 for. a four-mile heat race. That event drew for entries the greatest horses then in training. Several of the starters in t lint race were fitted for it mouths in advance. The famous race mare. Katie Pease, crowned her career by winning that race, it being her farewell to .the turf. This event was run three seasons in California. The other two winners were Foster and Thad Stevens. Four-mile races, in recent years, have been off the cards of most associations save in California, where up to a year ago the Thornton Stakes was maintained at tliis distance. In the early history of the New Louisville Jockey Club there were some stirring races at this route. It was here that the famous Ten P.roeck lowered the record for tills distance and also ran his illustrious match race with Mollie McCarthy on July 4. 1S7S. That event was witnessed by a crowd that has always been cited as the largest that ever beheld a days racing in Kentucky. At one time Churchill Downs not only held the fastest four-mile record Ten Rroeeks 7:153 but a mare called Janet ran the distance in 7:25. Jim Malone, in 1SS0, ran four miles here in 7:29-1, and this was the last race at four miles at the Downs. The impression concerning the Endurance Stakes is that the added money must 1m? sullicient to make it an incentive for owners to train their best horses for the hig race. Many believe that a race of this kind would attract a much larger field if each track on the Kentucky circuit this fall would make a liberal offering for sucli a race. It is thought that under such conditions S. C. Hildrcth would not hesitate to fit Fitz Herbert for such a contest. Countless, doubtless, would be another great horse to try for the prize, and Wade McLeniore probably would not hesitate to come to Kentucky with his sensational ware, Meadow. .The race would- bo tin, attraction of a decade .and worth many thousands of dollars to any of the racing, associations. , Charles F. Grainger, prpsldent of tloNew Louisville Jockey Club, is greatly interested -in the Endurance Stakes. He is in favor of offering as an inducement added money the like of which. In value, has not been known on the Kentucky turf in many years. The Endurance Stakes will establish also the fallacy that long-distance racers are no longer bred and trained on the American turf. The truth is that horses of today are generally fitted for short races, but if properly handled they will display all of the endurance desired. Bain of many hours duration rendered the courses at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park slushy yesterday, though the trneks had firm footing below. The Sunday exercise of the Derby candidates was confined to trotting and slow cantering on the roads surrounding the stables. However, a number of other racers did sharp work, especially at the Downs. The work of those good enough to record follows: Chart Ier Half mile in 55. Falcada Mile in 1:5:!. Is good. llaldemau Three-eighths In iAi. Light. Blue Mile in 1:55. Improving. Iiuis Kntss Half mile in 54. Looks fit. Nici Three-eighths in 21. A likely Sir Tluon colt, in George. J. Longs stable. r. P.eriedumas Half mile in 55. Promising colt in Samuel R. Meyer Three-eighths in 41s. stable of James Giillin. Shapdale Three-quarters- in 1:20. cantering. Sir Denrah Three-eighths in S. Sir Giles Three-eighths in .".0. Spindle Mile in 1:."4. Working well. Tom King Half mile in 545. D. P. Lynch, owner of Fair Louise, arrived vester-day. Lynch wont to Hot Springs, Ark., following the Juarez season. J. N. Young is training Fair Louise. II. R. Brandt is giving Harrigan and Angelus regular work and the two cracks will be read v -to till their engagement at the Downs. Mr. Brandt declared the pair out of their Lexington engagements. Ilarrigans first start in Kentucky prol.ablv will be in the Clark Handicap. .May 20. Orbicular, A. L. Kirbys ood horse, is taking slow exercise and is likely to race here before the spring meeting ends. Mr. Kirby says Orbicular will be at his best luring the Latonia meeting. C. C. Van .Meter and trainer Peter Covno, after inspecting their racers today at the Downs, left this evening for Lexington. The track at Churchill Downs todav was muddv and slushy owing to the recent rains, but with firm footing underneath. At Douglas Park the course was not so good, being a little heavier than at the Downs. At that, there was fair work over the latter track also. The star work since the track at the Downs has become slushy was bv the unbeaten two-year-old Ursula Emma in L. P. Doerhofers stable. She went a half in 4!.?. going the lirst quarter in 24, and three-eighths in :!7. This work was her linai preparation for the Elmendorf Stakes at Lexington Thursday. She was shipped there by her trainer, Shelby West, this afternoon. The only Derby candidate to work faster than a two-minute gait was Colston, the Filigrane colt in Kaleigh Colstons stable, lie went live-eighths in 1:0!. pulled up. A sparkling bit or short work was a quarter in 25 by Bob Co in the stable of Lon Johnson. The best long-distance work of the dav was by Sir Cleges and Billiard Ball from the stable of R. F. Carman. They went a mile in 1:5.". cantering. Tt was about the fastest work anv of the Carman horses have done since they arrived here, witli the exception of M. Cambon. Stalls haye,Jieeiibeltled in Lou .Tohnsons stable for ten horses m Jack Bakers string, now at Lexington. The star or the shipment is JoeMiirris, a Clark Handicap candidate, and St. Alovsiulia Kiiiil r tucky Derby eligible. Hie racing strings of N. B. Davis and J. L. Ross arrived at Douglas Park today from Jamestown. There are nine horses in the two stables. Among them are Bad News II.. Schoolmarm. Svlvestris. Warden and J. C. Core. They reached here in good condition. J. 1 Schorr concluded to take none of his horses to Lexington. Lack of stake engagements there influenced him to wait until racing liegius here Mav I."!. Lo- Johnson will go to Lexington to see some racing, but has decided to ship none of his string there. J. B. Respess is in Lexington, but none of his horses will go there to race. .Mr. Respess has several, stake entries there, but his horses" are a little backward in preparation and will hardly be lit until the meeting opens here, lie lias no Derby candidate this season, as lie early declared Lottery Man out of the race. The two-year-olds in the Respess string this season are a likely looking lot, the best he has had quartered here in a long time. Lyman II. Davis, secretary or the New Louisville Jockey Club, who had been at Hot Springs. Ark., recuperating, has returned here. Ills health is much improved.
